We had a meeting with Ammex in early Jan 2007 and met with
Marjoleine Miranda the person responsible for the CDS admin
duties.
There are currently four communities set-up for the CDS complex, the
aparthotel will form the fifth community. Currently Interlaken is the
president for each community as they are currently the majority owner
in each community. The four communities were set-up on different dates,
the president i.e. Interlaken will remain in place for a 1 year term or
until they lose their majority and at which stage the other owners i.e.
us can request via Ammex to call an early Annual General Meeting to
elect a new president. Please note that this re-election for an
alternative president will only be successful if all owners within the
community vote i.e. turn up in person or register a proxy vote with
another owner.
We requested that Ammex provide the current ownership status, (51%
of owners in each community is required to gain the majority) within
the next couple of weeks, this should then allow us to estimate when we
will be in a position to call a meeting and hopefully vote for
alternative presidents within the communities asap. We can then start
to control how the community finances are spent etc......
Please also note that AMMEX requested that all owners make contact
with them to register their details. Marjoleine stated that
communication was a problem for them as they had not received the
required contact details from alot of solicitors who represented CDS
purchasers.
Could I therefore ask everyone to provide their, contact details to
AMMEX i.e. Name, home address, telephone, Email and CDS apartment
details etc... send to infor@ammex.org. I
believe this will improve communication Please also ask Ammex to
confirm which community you are located in and ask them to provide you
with an 'owners code' , this will provide you with online access on
their website to check proposed dates for Annual General Meeting
etc..... www.ammex.org
We also found out that a micro community would need to be set-up
once the aparthotel community was up and running. The micro community
is required to oversee management of the roads, street lighting and
security of the CDS complex.......now you may need to sit down when
reading the next section :-)
The Town hall in Casares is not responsible for maintaining roads or
lighting within any complex within Casares........ the owners
ARE....... the micro community will need to collect an additional
community fee from all owners to pay for the road/pavement
surface up-keep and pay for lighting etc..... The Casares town hall
will probably contribute some funds, but we have the majority share
etc...... The micro community will be made up of the five presidents
from each community.
We also spoke in some detail concerning the lack of security and
street lighting. Marjoleine stated that she was fighting with
Interlaken concerning both issues. She believed that as the micro
community had not been set-up that Interlaken should ensure street
lighting was on and that some form of security should be present and
paid for by Interlaken.....
Anyway we asked (please note that 3 apartment owners were present at
this meeting) Ammex to obtain some quotes from security companies to
provide a security presence onsite covering 24 hour security at
weekends and 19:00 - 07:00 am cover for week days. She stated that this
would cost approx 60,000 euro per year (based on previous experience).
She stated that there were sufficient funds available to pay for this
but the president i.e. interlaken had not requested this
service......... please note that normally this would be set-up once
the micro community was established - but we stated that this timeframe
was not acceptable. Breakins were happening now and therefere a
security presence was a priority for all owners
Please also be advised that Interlaken are paying 140 euros per
month for all properties which have not completed. We asked to review
the accounts but this was not possible as Ammex were still awaiting
information from Interlaken ?????? When we visit again in April we will
again request this information.
Ammex stated that Interlaken's community payments were regularly
checked. Other items were discussed, but I will probably post these on
the CDS owners website.
IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS OVER THE CURRENT LACK OF SECURITY PRESENCE
ONSITE @CDS PLEASE EMAIL YOUR CONCERNS AND APPROVAL FOR AMMEX TO OBTAIN AND PRESENT
THE SECURITY QUOTES TO THE PRESIDENTS i.e. Interlaken...... Okay we
will be paying the cost but it only works out approx 2 euro per week
per property and this cost will be covered by our current community
fees :-)