05 Dec 2007 12:00 AM:

How I wish I had seen this thread on the website before we purchased our house on the Costa del Azahar after an inspection trip with Parador.  We thought we were buying a townhouse on a dvelopment of 16 properties, with a communal pool and garden area.  The house was finished in March 2006 - what's on our snagging list?   Nice house, but the communal pool and garden are buried beneath a mountain of builder's rubble, and now we hear that the developer plans to put more properties on the land designated as our "pool and garden".  Have lost count of the number of letters we have sent to Parador (Mr. Jack Hamilton, Mr. Martingdale in Torevieja) - the Vinaros office were closed abruptly in the summer.  On the face of it, Parador appear sympathetic - we even had a meeting with their Vinaros Manager and our (or their?) solicitor in October - since then, not a thing.  I must be slow on the uptake, because it is only now , after reading this blog, that I have realised that the developer, Parador and the solicitor are, in all probabability, a linked unit, and that we, the clients, are actually total idiots.  I know that there are others worse off than ourselves - a block of 4 apartments on the development will not be granted a habitation certificate because the builder has built them too close to an adjoining villa, thus making them illegal development.  I just hope that others find their way on to this site and read about the problems others are experiencing with this company.  We intend to find ourselves a good independent solicitor now to sort this horrible mess out for us, but I cannot believe that a company registered in the United Kingdom can be allowed to get away with such obvious misrepresentation - I have their brochure in front of me now - "we hold yoour hand from beginning to end"  "we only use reputable builders" - what a joke.

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