Angel de Miraflores Mijas good or bad

Happy New Year to you all - hope 2008 is a happy one for all La Hacienda residents !  Just back from two weeks in our apartment.  The weather was not good at the beginning - in fact the worst the coast has experienced in over 20 years,  Very, very wet!  It made us realise that you really do need a representative over in Spain to check your property when you're not there.  (Maggie Wood is ours - if you're interested!). 

There were more new people than we've seen before but there's still a lot of work needing to be done to the development to get it right.  Caroline is Ana's replacement - she can be reached at carolina@moleon.com .  She is French and seems nice but not so sure that she has enough grasp of the Spanish language to be a good representative for the investors.  For example I wrote a two page letter which I gave to her and our lawyer with all the outstanding snagging points - she asked me to get my lawyer to translate it into Spanish ??!!    

The road up to La Hacienda is still in total darkness and the two newest blocks are still untouched (no work done since we were last there in November).  Not a good first impression if you have visitors or worse are trying to rent your apartment!

We met Vera and Ernst (Block 1) for the first time, Carol and Mike (Block 20) who we know and Jimmy (Block 21).  Vera tried to arrange a get together for any of the residents on site but unfortunately there was not a big turn out!  It would be a good idea, through this forum, to get as many people as possible together and organise our own "community".  Victor Sanchez has assumed this role but to date I don't think he has made contact with anyone!  There's so much outstanding work to be done that it would be far better to have a collective voice than try and take Dreamhills on one by one !

We picked up an up to date price list and the good news is that all apartments have gone up in price - between €80,000 and €100,000 in some cases!  The bad news is that there are about 80 apartments still to be sold.  This includes the newest phase (blocks 22, 23 and 24) but there are a lot of empty apartments in other blocks.  If there are still 80 apartments left and the community charge is €1,200 then this means that Victor would need to pick up this cost to get the Community up and running - which might explain the reason why nothing has happened yet .

I could go on with more negatives but there are actually lots of positives!!  The apartments are lovely, the views are spectacular (on a good day) and the grounds and pool areas are special (if they are maintained).  We still love it and are looking forward to our next visit. 

If anyone has contact details or website information for Pauline (who lives on site) - could they pass these on please.

Hope to see or meet more of you sometime

Isobel and Kenny

Thank you for that and hope you too will have a good new year.

Glad you are happy with your apartment and your decision to complete in advance of the supposed all finished completion date.

Can you say whether the storm/s actually did any damage on this development or is there proper land drainage installed.

Thanks

Norman

To the Macs,

Thank you very much for your private message. It was good to have such a useful reply.

I am a great fan of this forum and Justin's motto - "tell it like it is".

However the great thing is when dealing with the unfamiliar is to learn from others, information is very valuable especially when shared openly with others, you never know, there is always a chance of changing things for the better for everyone.

Good luck with your purchase, but as you know there are huge problems in getting developers to actually provide there "dream" promises. Sometimes it seems that you don't even get a well built weatherproof property. I trust this site will prove better in all respects.

Thanks again

Norman

Hi everyone.  Thanks again Isobel and Kenny for your continued insight into how the site is progressing (or not!).  We still have not completed yet and won't until the electricity is connected up.  It's just not acceptable that the lifts aren't working and there are no lights on the development.  The developers are trying to put pressure on us to complete but we are applying pressure to get things finished.  How many other people haven't completed their purchase yet?  If there are a few other purchasers holding out, I would hope that collectively we should be more effective in getting the development completed - money is the biggest motivator!

Cheers, Jen

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