28 Feb 2025 4:04 PM:

If the minutes do not provide clarity over what was decided, or based on what, I suppose the first course of action should be to speak to other residents about it, or speak to the president of your community. 

Thread: Community fee increase

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28 Feb 2025 3:58 PM:

All communities are the same they have rule's even though you own the property you can't erect or build anything without the permission of the community ...this even applies to myself ..I had to apply to my community directors to have the front of my villa glazed in even though others on the  gated community have done so.

 

And yet all over Spain you get those high rise blocks where every owner has glazed the balcony in their own style and added their own air model of conditioner and maybe even chaged or updated the windows in their own style and the entire building looks like a shantytown hotchpotch. And nobody seems to care.

Thread: Owned Roof Terraces vs Uso Privitivo

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28 Feb 2025 3:52 PM:

So, anyone had any luck...any clues...???

I guess the scheme is more a way for the government to channel money into the pockets of their friends.

I suspect that if a big construction company asks for the same subsidies, that they do get it. 

Same as with permits etc.

Thread: Solar panels

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19 Feb 2025 10:51 AM:

I had a local Spanish electrician in to do some small jobs, and I asked him to take a look at my house and give me his opinion on the prospects of installing solar panels. He said, if you do it, know you are doing it for the planet or for your green credentials or just to feel good, or whatever, but don't expect these things to ever pay for themselves and don't expect this subsidy thing to work. He said the government are a bunch of (colourful Spanish expletives deleted)

That is of course the opinion of one blunt and honest sparky. Your mileage may vary.

 

This message was last edited by amogles on 2/19/2025.
Thread: Solar panels

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21 Jan 2025 11:53 AM:

Most of these links are from Murcia, Almeria and further South. Typically, but with some expections, Spain gets cheaper the further South you go. Valencia is more costly. But this is offset by things such as infrastructure. I wouldn't want to be reliant on public transport in rural Almeria for example, but where I am in El Campello in Alicante province, you really don't need a car at all as public transport is so top notch. This is also something that you need to consider as you maybe get older and don't want to be reliant on driving for every little chore.

So its about what you need and what you want to spend on it. When stuff gets cheaper, its often for a reason.

Also, the further you move away from the coast, the cheaper it gets. In some inland villages, even in Valencia or Albacete province, 70,000 can buy you a farmhouse with oodles of land, or a nice village house in decent condition with several bedrooms. 

 

This message was last edited by amogles on 1/21/2025.
Thread: Location advice

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