Hellish Landlords!

We are visiting Resort again next week and a busy time we have ahead. We have enlisted the help of Jane (she is helping with our Spanish rentals) and hopefully on Friday we will be visiting the Town Hall in Vera. Apparently the queue for IBI can take a couple of hours until you get to the front and they will only take cash payments!! Also, if you sign up for direct debit, you get a 5% discount for subsequent years. We have that huge file (otherwise known as te escritura) and hopefully we will withdraw enough money to pay.

Let's see what happens

Mark

When we arrived at the complex on Wednesday, there was a letter waiting for us from the land registry. This was the confirmation we needed to say the area our apartment occupied was officially ours. Armed with this letter, a copy of the escritura and passport, I set off for Vera. Arriving at the Town Hall on Friday with our friend Jane who is a Spanish speaker, we went to the information desk and were sent to some offices in the square. The area is normally filled with people and normally you need to take a number and wait. No queue, no waiting . As it happens, they deal with the registrattion of every area except Vera!! We were sent down the road to a little shopping arcade (there is a Movistar reseller in there), where again you would normally take a number. A quick scan of the letter from the land registry and we were registered . Only problem was that we now had to go back to the place we went originally to pay our 98€ for the year!! We were unable to register for the basura, the Town Hall told us that we had to approach our administrators for information.

The moral of the story appears to be that you need to do these things just before theAugust holiday when everybody is on wind down.

Mark