Hi All.
Just to let you know, there was a vote at the meeting and the community has been set up, i have been voted in as president, a vice president from the spanish residents, and i beleive about 7 commitee members comprising of british and spanish owners.
I did not put myself forward, this was done by all the british people present, i am still a little surprised at the dubious honour!!
there was quite a lot of arguing, re the spanish as they did not want to appoint juan, and wanted to get other views from different administrators, this would have taken they said another 20 days, the british did not want this as we could lose the electric again at any time, basically the spanish did not want to pay anything and want to fight the town hall, builders etc before paying, juan had told us previously this was an option, but that if we did not pay the electric it would be cut off. with respect the spanish have family and friends here they can go to, obvioulsy the brits cannot.
we all voted again and juan carlos was appointed our administrator, i believe he and i are going to the town hall in the next couple of days to register the community and see if there is anything they can do to help us. however after he left the spanish again said they were not happy, and they bought in a translator as they said maybe juan had not translated properley to us. the translator did not tell us anything different to what juan had alreaddy said, but to keep the peace with the spanish i agreed to the translator commong to our next meeting which is on monday at 6pm ( for all who are over here, ) the spanish were happy with this, and went away smiling, unfortunatley at that minute juan came back and 1 spanish lady was left who started arguing with him, they want to go an denounce the builder, town hall etc, as he then said if we do this the police will come to inspect, find the electric on and then we will be in trouble, at this he said maybe the electric must go off today. i argued this and so far it has not gone off, but if you dont hear from me you know its gone again, in the end after nearly 5 hours there i left him arguing with the spanish lady, he is going to telephone me, but not heard as yet.
the coastrider newspaper is comming tomorow at 1 pm. to cover the story.
i think that is it in a nutshell, other than the builder owes 3 elec bill, totalling approx 7000,00, juan says if we pay 2 bills, we will keep the electric until may, when the 3rd bill must be paid. an idea from other communities is to get a bank loan in the commounity name, and this payment will be added to the service charge of all owners in the first year, this saves having to take different lump sums from people. the water is easier, if we all pay 60e, althogh the water company are owed 32000.00 they will put in our personal meters, and will not chase us for the arrears, but will go to court for idearco to pay.
the electric meters cannot be put in until all arrears are paid and a certificate from the electricians is obtained, this is harder to do as the builder owes the electricians 80,000. however we do not have to pay this, we can fight this with the town hall to give us a certificate without first obtaining the electricians one, this may take time though and until then everyone would have to pay the electric bill, as communual.
re completion, a couple were here today, that should have completed today only the builder cancelled, they were advised by the solicitor present to complete, as this way they would still have a property, albeit with utility problems, but better than nothing.
i hope this helps, must fly now, trying to do all my emails in case we are cut off again.
look forward to meeting you all, and anyone over on monday at the meeting.