19 Mar 2008 9:35 PM:
You really do need to put pressure on to arrange for your gate to be fixed as a matter of priority. I assume as you are all in the process of buying you all have solicitors and I am sure you can ask them to write to the office on your behalf. Also on the problem with the boiler dont be afraid to refer this to your solicitor. We pay our solicitor 99 euros each per year and she does all this for us - it is well worth the money.
With regard to the pool and shrubs you will need to very early on appoint a president for your area and hold your first community meeting. At this meeting you will have to vote on how you want your community fees to be spent. My recommendation is that one of the first things you do is arrange a garden and pool cleaner, we are on a community who has done this and everyone pays an amount of their community fee towards this (even those in upstairs apartments!) but what it means is all the gardens are maintained and the general areas are also looked after as well as the pool being cared for. The community next to us has not arranged a gardener and I know from some people on that community it looks uncared for already as not all owners are permanent residents and when out there dont want to be doing gardening.
The sooner you elect a president and establish yourselves as a community the sooner you can get these things in place and take on the management of your area between yourselves. However I do recommend that either your president or your vice president is a resident in the area, at least for the first couple of years as they need to be there to react immediately to problems and things that need sorting - but dont underestimate the size of the task.
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Gas bottles in Manilva
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