Mena's 'snagging' company

Yesterday our friends went to our apt in Phase 2 to meet with the rep from Mena's snagging company.   The appointment was for 9am.  At 9:25 she called saying she was in a traffic jam.  She arrived at 9:50, looked at nothing, and asked our friends to sign a paper that she had come!!  Is this snagging?  No list was made or given, no snagging was done by her.

Subsequently, our lawyer advised us to submit our own detailed list.  As we understand it, Mena has 1 month to fix everything, then we can make one more inspection and 1 final list.  Everything, in theory, will be repaired or corrected in the following 2-week period at which time Mena will advise owners to complete.  In essence, we will be called to complete in about 6 weeks, i.e., around end of April.

Some of the many (but most fairly small) problems our friends found include

1) bad grouting around tubs
2) mismatched floor tiles (different color travertine where original tile had broken and was replaced)
3) lack of silicon around windows and mirrors
4) paint over spackle -- looks like a mess
5) chipped floor border tile trim
5) messy tile grouting
6) unpainted areas of walls
7) cement splattered on terrace tiles
8) paint on inside travertine floor tiles
9) no shelves under kitchen worktop
10) badly fitting drawers in kitchen

The AC and alarm system had no electricity to check them, but the stove top and frig did.

What did the rest of you note in your own snagging?

Icaru, I am going out Monday for snagging. My lawyer tells me that MENA insist the final snagging will be after completion. Their reasoning being tha owners need to live in the apartment for a couple of weeks to see everything that may be wrong. Of course, I am sure that many owners will not move in immediately after purchase.

The final snagging is to be done within 2 weeks after Mena considers everything complete.    After those 2 weeks, you will not have recourse to further requests whether you have lived in the apt or not..

Hi,

We have bought in phase 2 also in block 17, we were in spain last week and met with a girl from snagging company, what she told us was to note any issues and then her company will do proper snagging and we then have 30 days to agree with what they have said, she also gave us a form to sign but it basically just says that we were allowed into our apartment to look around.

judging by the overall progress of phase 2, it will complete pretty soon.

does anyone has concerns over renting it out??? we have spoken to a few people from phase 1 and some has problems renting it out

 

I met with the girl from the snagging company yesterday, this is what I was told. I think her name is Paula. The first thing she said was that my apartment is not finished yet, she’s right about that, but it’s very close. There are lots of things wrong with it, all small things that can be easily fixed. She says that she has a team of people who will be checking the apartment and if there are things that I notice now that are wrong, they may well be fixed by the time I see it again. She says that we will be asked to complete in approximately four weeks. That, presumably, will be when the Occupancy Licence has been issued. We will then have 15 days to snag our apartment. That is 15 days AFTER we have completed. If we don’t complete in 4 weeks, say it takes 6 weeks, it will be 15 days after that. They will then fix all that is on the snagging list. That is the only fixing they will do, we can’t go back at a later date and ask for more to be done. However they are going to be on site for one year. I presume, I don’t know for sure, that this may be so that if we have any problems, that they are there to sort them out. Clearly once the snagging issues are resolved, that is it, but if your air conditioning broke down after six months for instance, that is not a snagging issue and is something we could talk to them about. I’m quite happy with all that. Phase 2 looks great by the way, and Paula also said that the landscaping will be done in about 2 weeks.

This message was last edited by daveporter on 3/20/2007.

l am purchasing a property at Marbella Hill View.

My snagging took 5 hours to complete. There were over 50 areas identified . l had a very comprehensive document plus photos to support the identified areas. The report had also been translated into spanish for the developers and also the lawyers. 

The work is being carried out at the moment. l will then be asking for the snagging to be inspected  again independently to ensure all work has been carried out to a high standard.

Once this has been done l will then be completing.

lf anyone wants details of the company that carried out the snagging please contact me.

 

We had a friend in Marbella go through the apt with a fine tooth comb, photo documenting every little thing needing correction.  Then we hired a company (since we cannot come in person),  gave them our initial list for their own inspection, they will also do the final snagging.  Our list has 45 items on it, had more, some were repaired between checks.