Hi Russ and all,
Yes, I've long held the view that the airport construction programme and the many PROFESSIONAL (not hole diggers!) people there, are our best bet but as someone responded some time back, all the "big boys", ie: the established letting/rental agencies are rip off merchants and although you MAY be lucky and secure some kind of letting with them, your return would be pitifully low and they place all sorts of restrictions upon the owners and the final income would not be very much at all and certainly not enough to cover even running costs, let alone a mortgage, if you are "lucky" enough to have one!
All this came about because one of our number went into detail in connection with the Calidona related letting scheme and their conditions are really prohibitive and they even dictate that you, the owner cannot "sub-let" to anyone else during the time for which they are not directly occupying the property with one of their clients.
As with all Fat-Cats these days, we need to wheedle them out and expose them for the greedy so and so's that they are and we need to find a new representative letting body of integrity and who acknowledges all the advantages of an ongoing, fair play arrangement which is beneficial to all.
As a retired aviator, I have had, as you can imagine, a life-time of airport lettings and hotel accommodation and all shades in between. I have tried everything that I can on the 'Net, to try to even find an airport website where I can contact the major contractor direct for this very purpose.
I'm sure that everyone will be aware that this airport, despite all other considerations, IS going to happen and for a change for once for Spain, pretty much on time, now that things are moving ahead at last.
All airport related operations have to be implemented and thoroughly planned YEARS ahead, particularly once you become involved with the actual aviation/operational side of things.
The establishment of airways routes, arrival and departure procedures are incredibly complicated and costly to establish and coordinate and they cannot be started and dropped upon a whim, believe me!
The planners at the airlines themselves have to work very far ahead with their scheduling and determination of flight crew requirements, engineers and traffic staff, not to mention the numbers and type of aeroplanes needed.
There will already be whole "air forces" of skilled professional aviation related and highly skilled, and incidentally, highly paid folks waiting in the wings (sorry about the unintended "wings" pun there but it's a goody, isn't it?!).
As things develop, they AND in many cases, their families, will need to descend upon the new airport site in order to carry out their tasks and they will all want to be living somewhere close by and not having to waste time and money in commuting, except possibly at weekends/holidays etc.
This is where we at Corvera and the local villages and towns, have the edge on other developments. The whole infrastructure with schools and hospitals, restaurants and bars and other accommodation of an off-airport nature, will need to become established in our immediate area.
THAT is where we should all be concentrating our letting/rental efforts and if I was clever enough and not 65 years (young) and broke because of the overall Spanish situation which has cost us pretty much everything and not living down here in Oz, I would be thinking VERY seriously about setting myself up as a diligent and reliable Corvera owner, directly with the main airport contractors and establishing the aforementioned letting agency, to whom we would all flock........ and damn the Fat Cat types.
Building the airport is not just a matter of holes in the ground and eventual runways and buildings etc. The specialist skills and staff required to install, test and bring to fruition and THEN maintain such incredibly complex systems as the advanced instrument landing systems, the radio communications suites, the fuel "farms" etc, without even thinking about such things as the terminal buildings and all related requirements, mean that, in all reality, we are soon going to see a massive influx of professional staff requiring good quality adjacent property to let and for a good few years to come...... not to mention re-sales prospects.
I am at rock-bottom because of circumstances but, because of my past experience, I can see that provided that I can get through the next couple of years, we'll all be reaping the benefits. It won't be immediate, worse luck but WATCH THIS SPACE !
"Clear to Land". Good Luck and Best wishes to all,
Fizzler/John.