Three years ago we retired to a villa in Costa del Sol.
Our villa is in a small villa community. We are part of a small resort of 4 communities, the other three are apartment blocks.
There is a pool and gardens shared by all the communities.
Everything was fine until the previous president retired through ill health.
The new president is from the apartment blocks. He feels that the apartments are subsidising the villas.
The villas and the penthouse apartments have larger terraces which the new president says were not properly accounted for in the quotas in the deeds.
The new president had a resort meeting quite recently at which there was a vote on the way the fees are shared out.
A new system was proposed which was a combination of the size of the properties and other factors. To be honest I don't really understand it.
What I do know is the apartment communities passed the vote for this new system and as there are 3 times more apartment owners, so the vote for the new system was passed in the resort meeting.
This new system has meant we are facing big increases in our fees.
We cannot really afford these, especially as our pensions are paid in sterling.
None of the villa owners want this change and neither do those in the penthouses.
We do not think this is fair. We we bought out place from the previous owner we were careful to make sure what all the costs to us would be. Our solicitor showed us the deeds and explained how the fees were worked on from the percentage in our deeds. If we knew it was going to be like this we would not have bought our place.
Is there anything we can do about this?