Thisdoesnt have to be a disaster.
The Presidents will generally be working hard on our behalf, certainly PTAN and Terry and Sontagh (have I spelt that wrong?) all post on here or the other forum and PTAN is particularly informative.. I agree with PGM's post and i know that working for any committee voluntarily is a thankless task- I have done that. I actually think it should be a requirement that Presidents regularly update their Jardin owners. A few lines regularly wouldnt be too much to ask. Truly, I have just met people on the golf course who thought all was managed and controlled by Polaris and they were flabbergasted at the idea that PW pass over the management of the resort and that the gardeners, bin men etc are not Polaris employees. I think there will be many people that unaware. Heaven knows who they pay their CC to or if they do. On that point my heartfelt apologies to anyone I offended in my rant about people who do not pay-I have come to see that there are many out there who want to pay but have been thwarted by RPM. My ex-brother in law was furious with me for ranting as he tried for several months to get RPM to sort his payments out- threatened to pin me to any plackard with names on in the Al Kasar. Friendly chap, hope he was joking though I doubt it!!!.
All that aside I still think if you avoid paying then thats a diffent issue.
However, I think its clear RPM have not been doing their job but have been taking our money in their salary- not inconsiderable I imagine- and doing very little. I'm less sure about the 125,000 euro's outstanding and how that figure wasarrived at (could be more)suffice to say they havent explained their budget correctly, but I know they haven't collect all the CC fees and have not got the legally required 20% slush fund . They also haven't addressed the various problems reported to them as quickly as they should and some they have not dealt with at all - serious sewerage issues, lighting, security, insufficient power from IBERDROLA and the list goes on. The main issue being they have not sorted budgets and as thats a major part of their job I'd be hoping we could take legal action against them- is that possible?. They also haven't enforced the community rules- illegal additions to apartments and ignoring rules about use of pools which are major health and safety issues, dog off leads, the list goes on etc, etc.(some more important than others)
Security is still lax and shouldnt be- we all bought our apartments expecting very good security and we shouldnt be blinded by the fact that Spain doesnt have the same burglary problems as the UK. Once the resort takes off and more incomers use it we need to have the security we expected. Before we bought all six of our family purchasers were told that PW didnt want the Spanish style grills on windows because PW 'pride' themselves on the level on security they offer- huh!!!
We cant keep RPM as they appear to be hopeless and toothless. There would never be a good time for them to go but I think the Presidents have instigated the right action and this is the right result. Its our hard earned cash that has been going into these rogues pockets and had we all be made more aware we'd have supported the coup last summer more readily. What makes me most annoyed is the suggestion made to me today is that 'they saw you all coming' and ' they saw the Brits coming, what do you expect....?' I can only hope that isnt true
Which all brings me back to the fact that we - the owners- need more information, sooner rather than latter!!!!.I would hope those lax Presidents and Vice Presidents would take this on board- it is little good only reporting to the Spanish part of our community if you even report to them at all.
This message was last edited by TheQuietMan on 26/01/2010.