Spanish property forums   "Make friends with your neighbours in Spain" 28,038 people are already members
Members area: Log in  | Create an account
  Home  |  Search  |  Currency Converter  |  Cheap Car Hire  |  Spain maps  |  Contact & FAQ
Forum posts 

 A FREE gift for you...


Click Here

Spain forumsRecovering Unpaid Rent - Help Please!



Navigation: Forums homeSpanish lawyers Search forums

Please adhere to the forum rules when posting

 

Posted byMessages (sorted from oldest to newest)
Monday, September 10, 2007

strat
Star rating
Parcela



I've made 1 posts

Send private message to strat

  My tenant has now not paid any rent for 3 months and, despite my agent apparantly pursuing him, shows no intention of paying any either. I have emailed my 'lawyer' about it but presumably they're all too busy watching the Spanish dubbed re-runs of Coronation Street to bother replying. Again. So I am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and how they went about tackling the problem. Also, does anyone know a lawyer in the Almoradi/Torrevieja area that may be prepared to break with local tradition and do a days work once in a while without me having to march into the office and make a threat at gunpoint?

 Any advice gratefully accepted. Thanks.

KH

ps AK-47 on standby...





Spam post? If so please click here to report it

10 Sep 2007 6:45 PM

leema
Star rating
Adosado



I'm in Washington Tyne & Wear -Coto Real Duquesa

I've made 290 posts

Send private message to leema

Good luck with this, I know if you rent for over 12 months the law is on the tennants side and it seems they can do what they like, there has been a few cases like this on the board before.

Hope somebody can help you with it.

_______________________
Maureen & Dennis



Spam post? If so please click here to report it

10 Sep 2007 11:08 PM

mariadecastro
Star rating
Finca

mariadecastro´s avatar

I'm in Algeciras (Cadiz)

I've made 737 posts

Send private message to mariadecastro

Unpaid rents are a different matter to  rental periods/ extensions and have same legal treatment whatever the rental period is, but , litigation on rental is very unpractical and lenghty and keeps the tenant enjoying the house till it is over. You have action for eviction since first month of unpaid rent but again, the procedure is long.

 

That is why I always advise people to submitt the rental contract to arbitration rather than to Courts.



_______________________

Maria L. de Castro, JD, MA

Lawyer

Director www.costaluzlawyers.es

El blog de Maria



Spam post? If so please click here to report it

 

DISCLAIMER:  All opinions posted on these message boards are the opinion solely of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Eye on Spain, its servants or agents.