completion on La Isla

We are coming over for 2 weeks mid July - is it possible to get the snagging done before we sign? we hope to get all the paperwork done the first week with the second week the furniture arriving.  Does anyone think this is a possibility or will we have to come over before completion?

Does anyone have any advice for a smooth completion with maybe a few days "enjoyment"?

Mandy

Hi Mandy...  Have you been given a completion date then ..??

There's a few people waiting for news on 'La Isla' and I was hoping to either complete by now or not until September. In an ideal world we'd rather avoid all the running around prior to and during completion in July/August when the schools are on holiday.

I checked with my solicitor today and they still haven't heard anything from Polaris.

Regards

Julian

Hi Mandy

Be very careful about making commitments for furnishing, PW are notorious for giving completion dates and then cancelling at the last minuet, they have done this many times with the other apartments. Or they will give people completion dates and then you fined out at the last minuet that Alhama Council haven’t issued the Habitation Certificate, although you can complete without this document most Solicitors recommend you not to and most banks will not release mortgage funds without it. The other problem is that if you find any problems in your property whilst snagging which most do albeit often small things, PW will not compensate you if they damage any of your furniture whilst doing any repairs and they are not very careful.

As far as the process goes you usually do the snagging the day before you complete and they then have 30 days to complete the snagging work, as stated above, you can furnish as soon as you have completed and have the keys but as I said its at your own risk. You have to have your NIE Numbers also, so if you haven’t you need to make arraignments with PW or you solicitor or yourself to get them.

Hope this helps

Phil

Hi Mandy,

As Phil says, it is a good idea not to arrange to furnish straightaway for various reasons.  I did a fairly detailed posting on another thread which gives a lot of information about the completion arrangements, snagging etc - I have copied it below for you.  If you want to read the full thread, it is called "Time needed for completion etc"  - the last posting on it is dated 23rd April 2009 by julianpray.

Hope it helps to explain the completion process and some of the problems that you might come across!

Hi Julian,

Congratulations on your forthcoming completion - you will probably find the next couple of months quite stressful but very exciting and as others have said, it is all worth while!

How long you need in Spain depends on how you choose to do things particularly with regard to furniture.  One thing which you may need to consider though is that once you have done your snagging (whether you do it yourselves or appoint a professional snagging company to do it for you), Polaris then have 30 days to rectify any items identified on your snagging list.  They recommend that the property is free of furniture whilst the snagging is done and I seem to remember that they refuse to accept liability if any items are damaged etc whilst work is being done in the apartment. 

This would make it a bit difficult to furnish the property at the same time as doing your snagging/NIE numbers/completion etc.

We completed in June 2008 on our apartments in Jardin 12.  We flew out to Spain at the weekend and then Monday morning was the trip to Murcia in the PW minibus to collect NIE numbers.  We were then returned to PW Head Office where the Parador Properties rep met us and took us to Cam Bank in San Javier to sign the mortgage papers.  He then took us to Condado to do the snagging.  The following day (Tuesday) he collected us first thing in the morning and took us to the Notary's office for the completion - unfortunately the Habitation Certificates were not available so we signed Power of Attorney (paid for by PW) to enable our solicitor to complete on our behalf.  We then flew home the following day, so you would be looking at about 3 days.

The solicitor completed for us about two weeks later and confirmed to us by e-mail that everything had been done. In the meantime, PW were getting on with the snagging.

With regard to furniture, we bought everything here in the UK and shipped over to Spain in August 2008 using a company called Elite European who were extremely good and I would definitely recommend them.  A number of other forum members have used them and have also been impressed.  By that time, PW had dealt with all the snagging issues.  We found it easier to get everything together in this country, as we knew where to look for things, prices were cheaper and we were not working within a restricted timescale.  I had a fantastic few weekends and lunch hours shopping, shopping and more shopping!  We rented a storage unit just for one month and were able to have furniture delivered directly to the unit.  We boxed up the smaller items at home, and then took them down to the storage unit.  Elite European collected everything from us about four weeks before we were due to go over to Spain in August and arranged delivery for after we had arrived.  We rented an apartment for the first week whilst we got everything sorted out in our own apartments and we were then able to relax and enjoy our new place in the sun, with the all important cool drink!!!

This is just one way of doing things and other people have had some very good experiences with furniture packs bought in Spain, delivered and installed for them in their absence, so that they arrive to a fully furnished and equipped apartment that they can enjoy from day one.

With regard to air conditioning, we used Gary from Polarair and he fitted the air con the week before we arrived in August.  He was quite happy to wait for us to pay him once we had arrived and checked everything was to our satisfaction.  He had done a fantastic job and it was one less thing to worry about trying to organise whilst we were out there, using our very valuable holiday days.  We just needed to send an e-mail to PW authorising them to release the keys to Gary. 

If you need any more help or have any questions about what is involved in shipping furniture over from the UK, please do not hesitate to get in touch - you can contact us through our website address below.

Good luck !

Debbie

Hi

I think you really have to discide if you have the time to do every thing your selves. We appointed our spanish solicitor to act as our representative giving him Power pf Attourney . which  meant that all the paper work including our NIE number. Once all the paperwork was in order & the keys were available for collection we contacted a snagging company. their email is www.snagitmurcia.com I think. can highly recomend them. We  had 21 items listed & they emailed us photoes both before & after the work had been done. As Phil & debbie have said PW is given 30 days to rectify the problems. these are 30 working days . Not calender days.We found that dipite all the work that had to be done our apartment was very clean . I have heard that some are not so looky. If you get your self a key holder. they may do a builders clean prior to your furniture being installed. Like debbie , we bought most of our furniture in the UK. however because  of the difference in electrical out put we bought all of our white ( Silver ) goods,. TV etc from spain

I wil Pm ypu with our Key holders email. I am sure Debbie willl not mind me saying that we both share the same lady

Best of luck with every thing

Jan

Hi Mandy

Have you been given a completion date by Polaris World, its just that I've  had an email from them today telling me that they would give us 2 weeks notice as and when we would be required to go out for snagging, NIE collection and signing. If you have been given a definate date what block have you bought in, and good luck.

Jane