Changing Bank Accounts

Just got back from Condado - really didn't want to come home - there's just something about that place.  Was in a really bad mood when I went to work today as I wanted to be back in Spain and to make matters worse I have a colleague who doesn't stop talking even when they are eating and drinking and I wanted to thump them!!!

Back to this thread - we have cancelled our bank account with Cajamurcia as the charges were astromonical.  We have now opened a bank account  with Barclays Bank in Puerto de Mazarron.  All the charges are free ie cards, transfers etc.

We called into our Solicitors and informed them but do we need to let anyone else know like Polaris World or the management company as we have not received any notification on charges like water, electricity and community charges.

Look forward to any advice - lol.

Jane

You should notify Polaris World if you asked them or gave them authorisation to arrange connection of your Water and Electric ( If you dont pay your elecvtric you could get cut off?) also you must inform our administators general@rpmspain.com so they can take your Community charge.

Thanks Sonatigh for the info - will let PW and RPM know.

Jane. 

We also closed our Caja Murcia account but moved to Santander in Camposol.

From our experience Polaris aren't in the slightest bit interested you  have changed bank details. They will ask you to contact the electric and water company yourself. (We had filled in the initial forms with our Solicitor for all the utility connections as well.) All they could give us were phone numbers but no addresses to write to.  

We ended up driving to Alhama  and went to the Water Company's offices to notify them we had moved banks.They don't speak any english in the office so there is no point  phoning unless your Spanish is better than mine and they never responded to EMails.(even when written in Spanish). With the help of a Spanish Dictionary which we passed back and forth between me and the lady in the office we managed to get it sorted.

For the electric company (Iberola) we went into the town hall (again in Alhama)and a very helpful man phoned  them for us and gave them our new bank details. The town hall man only spoke spanish but we managed to communicate with him by using google translator on his computer.

The issue you may have with both companies is they may not be able to trace you until you have been connected.

Best of luck.

Jon

Best of luck