An Orihuela Townhall Scandal

As you may have seen from my previous posts, In 2003 I  bought an off plan house from Atlas ( liars), through Tecnologia Urbanistica (bandits) and useing lawyers Aroca Sequier ( Incompetent). Firstly the house was never built ( Colinas Del Lago) but we were offered houses on another urbanisation. I moved in in Jan 2005. We are still on builders water and electric but have to pay for these services. Our Urb like many others, is not complete. We managed to get electric meters fitted which of course we had to pay for and we read them every month and one of our community works out the bills. Fine so far except we have NON PAYERS who have amassed large bills. We are by law not allowed to cut them off so our President organised for a company to fit the main cables in the surrounding road so that we could have individual contracts with Iberdrola. We all payed nearly 550 euros to have this work done ( except the non payers) but that was over a year ago. Since then the paperwork has shuffled around between the company doing the work, our administrator, The Orihuela Townhall etc etc. Of couse it got lost and found a few times. Now that everything seems to be in order ORIHUELA TOWNHALL ARE ASKING FOR A BOND FROM US OF 12,000 euros in case the road gets damaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I doubt very much we would ever see this money back.

So here we have a case where we are doing our best to fix our predicament and ORIHUELA TOWNHALL  seems to be doing everything it can to make life difficult. Does anyone have any suggestions what we can do? And I don't mean going to useless lawyers and our useless Administrator. ABSOLUTELY SCANDALOUS. And NO, I still don't have my Escatura!

Can't say I'm suprised at the town hall, the are all pretty much the same.

We have had the same situation but with the water and every now and then the local water company cuts us off...even though it's illegal for them to do this.

Anyway, I really don't think there is much you can do.  You will probably have to pay the bond to get the work done, it is normal (ish) and you ARE supposed to get it back. 

By the way, if you don't have an esctritura, does that mean you don't have the licence of first occupation either?  Either way, you normally need the "boletin" to hook up to services but if you don't have the licence I don't see how you got to this stage at all, they don't normally allow you to fit meters with the boletines.

Justin

Hi Justin - yes we have the 'boletin' but no Licence of first occupation. What a mess. Thankyou Atlas et all.

Yeah, it does sound like a right mess. I hope you all manage to get it sorted out soon. If it's any consolation, I know of many other communities in very similar situations. Let us know how you get on. Justin

We now have one of the opposition parties at The Townhall trying to help us out. According to our President it's looking hopeful.

We tried that too but didn't have a lot of luck with it. Hopefully it will work for you guys. Let us know what happens.