Communication flows just one way
Thursday, June 12, 2008 @ 10:12 PM
Getting information from a Spanish solicitor can be, at times, like squeezing blood from a stone. Despite an improving knowledge of the spanish language on this side, and having a very capable bi-lingual solicitor, the information flow is all one way.
I ask a question, send an email, leave a telephone message. A week later I do the same again. Eventually I strike gold. I may, in return for my persistance, get a nugget of information - new to me but several weeks old in terms of status.
Our Palomares apartment, the one with the demolition order, is waiting for decisions from higher levels, but it seems unclear as to who is controlling the situation. It is certainly not us. I am absolutely certain it is not the solicitor, who seem of the reactive (although fairly active reactive) variety. It may be the Junta of Andalucia (who needs to take a decision as to whether up to 100,000 properties have been built on land which has never been legally reclassified from rural to urban land). Or it may be the first person who successfully gets our developer in front of the Courts and makes him bankrupt.
No completion with First Licence of Habitation, but no payout on the Bank Guarantee without legal ruling as the apartment IS finished and the builder is solvent thereby negating the reasons for the Bank Guarantee to pay out. There seems to be no precedent for properties built on land which was once, albeit briefly, classified as urban under a corrupt jurisdiction.
This is how I have been told the story . . . . but once upon a time I could make up my own dreams. Now I am waiting for my happy ending.
W