Hi Steve and Jan! Why would you want to pay for leaky drains - is it NOT developer's fault? We've got problems with leaks as well - and apparently the flats under our flat have been affected - and our insurers rogether with management company are coming on Monday to investigate the cause of the problem. Most likely it's down to construction faults!
Hi everybody! I thought that perhaps many of you would be interested to read the impressions of our friends who happen to be rental agents as well - they visited the development in September and that's what they wrote to us:
"The swimming pool still has no water in it and it doesn't look as though anyone is looking after the development. It looks the same there now as in when we went in January. Our client was expecting to find a swimming pool and gardens. People are walking there dogs behind the apartment entrance and it looks like a dogs toilet. "
And that's their advice - SHALL WE TAKE IT ON BOARD?!
"...You need to contact a forum like Eye on Spain and talk publicly about what is going on at Forest Hills. The more people see that others are complaining and getting together to do something, the more empowered they will feel and the more people that complain the more power you will have. Other people from the development will see it and respond. Things work differently here than in the UK. The more people that get together to put pressure on the Management Company and the Developers the more power you have. You are paying the Management Company to work for you, if they don't you can get together with the other owners and get rid of them and employ another Management Company.
Every town on the coast had a local election a couple of months ago. If you have a new Mayor in Estepona he may take great pleasure in rubbing his predecessors nose in the dirt. It was probably his predecessor that authorised the building of your development.
Ask the Management Company why the pool isn't usable and are you paying for someone to look after it. Each community has a gardener or grounds man to look after the upkeep of the development. Ask how many are there and what do they do.
DEAR NEIGHBOURS - DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AT LAST? I'D HAVE WRITTEN TO OUR MANAGEMENT COMPANY BUT I'VE NO IDEA HOW TO CONTACT THEM - AND THEY NEVER EVER CONTACTED US BUT WE ARE PAYING OUR FEES DUTIFULLY! SHALL WE WRITE TO THE NEW MAYOR PERHAPS?