Every site needs a good balance between content and paid for advertising. We rely on volunteer contributors for the bulk of content which might be stories, articles or comments about previously posted articles as well as photos and videos. We rely on advertisers who upgrade from their Free Business Card entry to an additonal paid for advert in an appropriate category on the site for our income which we use to pay our staff, develop the product and make an honest profit. We pay commission to individuals who want to work with us as advertising sales people. So if you are interested in earning a

Free for visitors to use. You are not forced to create a logon if you don't want to browse our pages and contact our advertisers in complete privacy, with confidence that when you send any email it will be delivered to the person you expect. No copies are sent or kept anywhere or to anyone else (including us).

Free for advertisers too. If you have a property for sale or a service that is useful to home owners, you can advertise with a FREE advert in our FREE Business Cards Directories for each island and you can feature your website or submit your URL with us for free in exchange for a reciprocal link. You will need to create a logon to do this because we need to know you're a real person and not a spammer.

Volunteering to contributing to the Greek Islands Real Estate website is something that we greatly value and appreciate. Whether you want to volunteer to enter content for an entire category, just a one-off personal experience story, or maybe a professional article or just an image, we will be thrilled to hear from you.

We are equally pleased to hear from advertisers who don't have a budget to pay for advertising and want to take advantage of our Free Business Card Directory listings and link exchange. But advertisers mustn't feel obliged to contribute just to get their advert seen. We mean it when we say it is FREE. Of course if you want an edge over your competitiors and have a budget, we would again be very happy to hear from you!

Our site is open source and free for anyone to use. Like Dmoz and Wikipedia, it's run by real people who are dedicated to making it the best possbile resource for advertising property sales and real estate related services as well as providing helpful articles written by professionals and from personal experience, comments and quality links to further information.

If you use our website you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password you use to access your account areas of the site and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account areas. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your username or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has in any way been compromised, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner. Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete. Please ensure your details are kept up-to-date to reflect any changes in your circumstances. You can access and update the information you provided us with in the Your Account area of the website. GreekIslandsRealEstate reserves the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts, remove or edit content at our discretion.

The most important of our aims, regarding the tone and approach we take concerning our website, is to put real people and their experiences to the forefront. Yes we consider techinical excellence of importance but we believe that people using the Internet, perhaps more so these days, still prefer to know that behind the technology they're dealing with there are real-live warm-blooded human-beings instead of just impersonal automated machines. This is why we highly value and appreciate volunteer content in the form of stories, blogs, comments, forum participation and feedback from our visitors and members as well as the efforts of our Volenteer Contibuting Editors and our Sales Agents, because their contibutions not only make our site rich in content and keywords but equally as important, they make our site more real, approachable and human. This philosophy is followed through by our policy of moderating content; ensuring that everything is approved by real people before it is published on our website.

We really mean it honestly. We would prefer our site to be in Greek as well as English, come to that we'd like it to be truly multi-lingual, because we know that the information and adverts it will contain will be as useful and appealing to Greeks and local island residents as it is to other foreigner homeowners in Greece who don't read English easily.

But the sad fact of the matter is that we are an English company with a small English management team who just can't speak let alone write in the Greek language to a standard anywhere near acceptable.

Added to the fact that the Greek language for us personally is an insurmountable barrier, our investigations into paying for development and translation of an ever-changing mirror site as well as the technical administration of supporting another language with duplicated data-entry forms, editing facilities, instructions and coding, plus meta-tagging of all the content to ensure good keywords, titles and descriptions that would appeal to search engines, and of course the on-going work of approving entries in a second language, proved to be such an expensive option, which we don't have the budget to cover that we took the decision to present the site in English only. And to go further, we opted for the universally used computer-programming version of the language making our decision not so much nationalistic but made mindful of the fact that technically websites are programmed and coded predominantly in English behind what is displayed.

We sincerely hope that the Greek users of our site understand our reasoning to opt for "a computer language" only and realise that in spite of it not being presented in Greek our site exists because of our appreciation, pleasure and wanting to share our enthusiasm for living in Greece and its beautiful islands.

We welcome volunteered contributions from anyone with a question, comment, first hand experience, professional knowledge or even a beautiful image, which they want to share. We accept contributions from home owners, fans of a particular island, knowledgeable residents and those who just, like us, love the Greek Islands and can't resist talking about them. Municipalities wishing to promote all aspects of their island are also actively encouraged to sign up and add content at no charge to them. To volunteer a contribution whether one off or on-going, you must first introduce yourself proper