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Hi All

I had a spare hour tonight so I checked some of the other forums on the main site. You dont realise what all the community charges are until you read these forums from new sites like ours, most of them have not been in long and are already at each others throats. The main issues seem to be swimming pools, parking and maintenance of the garden areas, a lot of the sites seem to be run by little hitlers. Lets hope and prey our site might be a little more civilised or better run from the start. We all know we have to pay fees of some sort and looking at the present climate they might be higher than we think lets hope we all are happy with them when they are set at a community meeting hopefully held when everyone moves in and has a chance to vote and voice there concerns. 
So here's to a happy site whatever the charges and all hitlers are banned (fingers and toes crossed).     

Feel free to reply and have your say but dont shout also be positive please.     

I have no idea what the community charges will be but I suppose the elected President will have to be someone who is based there for most of the year. While I know the charges wil cover refuse collection and garden and pool upkeep I suppose we will also have to factor in repainting as well as the white will certainly need doing. While I am quite used to concensus building I am interested to know how the whole process of deciding the Community charges is decided.
Great to hear that the whole site may be finished by March next year and i like you have a fear of an adolph being selected as President. We are on phase 9 and due to complete in February and hopefully earlier. Anyone any news on getting the Sports channels and its good to hear that Spanish TV were showing the liverpool game last saturday.
Cant wait to get out there as we are nearly washed out here in Dublin.

Paul

Hi
Think you will find that refuse collection does not get paid in with your community charge.you will have the community charge plus the municiple payment plus the refuse payment .
Keith

When we bought we were told the community charge would be for the upkeep of the pools only. The rest was the spanish equivilant of the "rates"?

We were also  told we would only have to pay community charge for the pool, but  tthen we were told the completion day for phase 4 was October 2006.

Frank & Pat

When we originally reserved, we were advised that the green area's would be maintained by the council, we would be responsible in addition to utilities/refuge for the upkeep of the pool on our phase and also a regular contribution into the pot which would be used to repaint the houses on a regular basis - this would ensure that the development would be kept up too without individual houses falling the appearance down - a good idea.

Given the responsibilities of the management company being so limited, we hope that the development will run quiet peacefully.

 

Not sure who know's what but in Spain the council tax is called the IBI tax and is paid annually, I currently pay 123 euros for the year for an inland town house, rates for houses on the coast are different and depend on the facilities ie:pools, green area, toilet blocks, parking etc. The water and sewerage is paid every two months and depends on the council bandings, I currently pay 35.00e every 2 months and the electric is also paid every 2 months although I believe this is due to change to monthly shortly. Fines can be issued by the council for using too much water in Spain, I know because I have had to pay one for 300 euros for using over the agreed amount.

None of the above are payable until the house has been issued with a habitation licence and adopted by the council as a legal property as the IBI will cover drainage, blockage to water/soil pipes, repairs to roads, policing etc. Until the licence is issued all owners will be on builders supply, they may send out bills to owners or may give you free electric and water! but as there are nearly 1000 house s I doubt that very much.

It would be better to get your habitation licence  first before moving in and have all the services registered in your own names as then there will be no unexpected bills from the builder at a later date.
It is not uncommon for builders to invoice owners for water and electric before they will give them the habitation licences. I have tried to warn people on this site about completing without the habitation licences. It have been mentioned on here that it could be 2 years before the licences are issued!

Rowley House seems to have done their homework, it is a shame that so few people have not, at the end of the day the builder can verbally tell you what they want ,it is not contractual! A good solicitor will advice against completing without the habitation licence and contrary to popular belief it is not common nowadays to complete without this!

This message was last edited by KP on 8/25/2008.

Thanks KP, that's why I'm still insisting on a bank guarantee.  Yolanda was surprised I wanted a BG at this late stage but does anyone know when we'll get our habitation licenses.  Anyway I still haven't received BG and we've been constantly asking since March for the renewal. We paid 800 euros for the first one back in 2005.

Hi
If you get the bills from ibi and dont pay them as you are not there then you can pay them in  huercal overa at the municiple office on the main road,but to set up a direct debit you need to go to pulpi unless you are there when the first bills come in then you can set up direct debit at your bank.The water and electric ( galasa and endesa) are easier to set up and paid every two months as is the refuse collection (basura)The ibi is partly based on the price written on your escritura.
Keith

Just to confirm what KP has said - my solicitor only last week strongly advised against closing without the habitation license. The problem for all of us is the length of time it will take to get them. Perhaps if we all held tough Peinsa may get the finger out and put pressure on Pulpi to issue them. Apparently they (Peinsa) will try to tell you that this is not a reason to delay closing but my information is that failure to produce the license IS grounds not to close.
Regards
Sean Curtis

http://www.idealista.com/pagina/boletin?opidiom=cidioma&localeRef=en    this web site is very good for anybody wanting to know what is happening with the spanish property markets,.It is an individual site so has no loyalties to any of the companies in Spain. There is a very interesting article on this link, paragraph 3, regarding underwritten amounts (bank guarantees to you and me) it is always worth keeping an eye on the markets where ever you are situated.