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BROKEN DREAMS

This blog is about the many broken dreams surrounding iether having moved to spain or in the process of moving to Spain. There are many successful moves, however for many it has meant heartbreak through loss of large sums of money and no property or being marooned in an illegal property with no way out.

Illegal builds
Friday, October 23, 2009 @ 12:49 PM

Well its over a year since we heard that the court case for planning crimes was IMMINENT and have just been informed that the court case for planning crimes is now IMMINENT however the state prosecuter has now established the costs of demolishing the site and returning it to rustic.
I am surprised that we the victims in these crimes have not been held responsible for these costs, perhaps I have become slightly cynical re the justice system.
However despite being robbed of a large sum of money that I will be unable to replace we continue to visit Spain and are still looking to make the move (although with a greatly reduced budget) I know from the posts on this and other forums that there are a great many like me and that some have become consumed by the problems faced in terms of a lack of justice.
Try to remain positive its just another lesson learnt on our lifes journey although a very painfull one.
Dont let it destroy your life, your relationships or friendships.
We continue to seek out that elusive bargain and Im sure that we will achieve our goal and hopefully soon.
Look at things in a positive manner, perhaps the dream of moving to Spain was just that a dream, take stock of your life and think of all that you have rather than what you have lost.
We are still here enjoying what life has to offer whilst many are no longer here, how many would gladly have given up their savings to remain amongst the ones that they love.
Remember that the glass is half full not half empty.

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Pedro said:
Saturday, October 24, 2009 @ 9:10 PM

Poigniant piece, Made me have a reality check...

totally agree, from our point of view we have been vicitms of fraud, a small english community living in our homes but without any building licences or infrastructure. Costly legal assistance that is frustrating as they dont seem to want to pursue the developer, even thought they bang on about the fact we 'were victims of a huge fraud'..

Some of the residents were protecting their other 'investments' with the builder and were misleading us for quite some time.
The end result is a community at each other, split, so yes as you say the stress has consummed us, destroyed friendships, and we have lost 10% of the community through death, they never got to see their homes legalised.

So I agree, now is the time for the glass to be half full, to enjoy what we have and celebrate our health.

We have lost alot, going to loose more financially, but as you say, we are still here to enjoy the warmth of the sun on our face in the morning.

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