rent 2 buy

Would anyone be interested on an informative meeting in Jumilla area for next friday?

Please p.m. if you are interested.

Regards

Hi all

Thanks Justin for the info regarding Irwin Mitchell.

I have lodged my interest in attending their proposed meeting for next Wednesday 21st May 2008, in Birmingham, and completed the necessary form.

In my opinion, Irwin Mitchell are a much respected company, and my daughter worked for them a few years ago, in their Birmingham office, where she was training to be a Legal Executive.

Her partner, who is also a qualified Solicitor, has strongly recommended that I attend that meeting, before I make a decision on who to go with, in the group action. In his opinion, a group action, (dependent on numbers), means that the costs could be spread between that group, therefore, not being as expensive as just a few, or even individually taking action.

I am, in no way, trying to sway anyones opinion here, but, merely suggest you all look at the options open to us, before you commit to anyone. This is going to cost us all, which ever way you look at it, and there are no guarantees that we will get all, if any, of our deposits back.

Anyone also attending the meeting in Birmingham ? Please PM me.

Good luck to everyone !!

Hi Justin,   thanks for explaining that for me,  i think i would like to be a little patient and see what happens next.  Obviously dont want to miss the boat and loose the money, but i would rather have my property.  Wouldnt be a problem to join an action group a little later  would it?

Malc.

Sorry,  but who has called a meeting in Birmingham and why?

Is this meeting for people who did not use a solicitor nor got a bank guarantee or for people who have a solicitor who's only interest is looking after the estate agents by whom they recommended. After all there affected as well by having to pay back there commission hence more closing down rather quickly!!

Could I please have details of this meeting time date place ect .

R10 482

Just posted this on the general forum:

The meeting for this week is being coordinated by Jose Maria de Lorenzo.  He is based in their Marbella office.

I spoke to him yesterday and a lot of the feedback he's had is that Wednesday is generally not a good day.  It seems people would prefer to have a meeting held at the weekend.

He is going to send me final details hopefully later today so I'll post them here as soon as I know.

Now, let me stress that going to the meeting is NOT committing you to anyting at all.  It is an opportunity to ask questions as a group and to understand your options.  Whether you are using your own lawyer, another lawyer or no lawyer at all, then I would urge people to still attend the meeting.  This is a very confusing and worrying time and I hope by bringing as many people together in one room you can all find some comfort in supporting eachother.

If you want to be kept informed about the meeting please use the form below, even if you are unsure at this stage whether you can attend.

Birmingham meeting interest form

I understand that Abolex is planning to hold a meeting on Friday in Jumilla.  If you want me to run a central database for people interested in this meeting then please let me know and I'll get it set up.

Also, if there are people based around Costa del Sol / Costa de la Luz area that would like to attend an informative meeting then perhaps we can run on with Maria de Castro is there is a need.

This is exactly what Eye on Spain is all about and why it was started nearly 4 years ago.  Bringing like-minded people together.  Whether it's online or offline we try our best to make it happen. 

And finally, just to make it clear, we have NO financial interest in any lawyers present on this site.  We will always use our contacts and friends to help where we can.  That's what we're here for.

Best of luck to everyone.  I'll keep posting information as and when I get it.

Justin

Excellent Justin,

You have been a superstar and without eye on spain who knows when we would have found out anything about this situation.

I have registered with irwin Mitchell even though we do have a solicitor already in marbella, all the help we can get is great especially if it's FREE......i can't attend the meeting though so if any one does go can they pm me with the jist of things.

Many Thanks

Jannine 

A bit disappointed that the meeting with Irwin Mitchell has been changed from Wednesday 21st to Sunday 25th May, as we are flying out to Majorca for a week, with our daughter, her partner and our grandaughter.

Could I trouble someone/ a few of you that are attending to PM me with details of what was said/suggested ?

We are returning from holiday on the 1st June 2008, and would be grateful for any updates.

Thanks once again Justin for the info, and support.

One thing I would like to ask, and I don't think it's been covered yet is,

" How is it that some people have Bank Gaurantees and the rest of us haven't ?"

It was my understanding that BG's couldn't be given until the building licenses were in place ?

Would someone be kind enough to explain.........maybe someone who has a BG for SADM ?

Good luck everyone...........I think we're in for a bumpy ride !

Hi Barry

To be perfectly honest we got one with ease, our agent was sunseeker homes and they advised us about the guarantee and gave us details of a very reputable lawyer in marbella at competative rates.

before we handed any money over we had a bank guarantee in place, we paid nothing for this, then  monies were exchanged for the deposits, i too am a bit confused as to why guarantees were not given especially seeing as it is a legal requirement.

We are actually in the process of getting our monies back, our solicitor actually told us he had our guarantee in his safe with our contract and that there should be no problems, if san jose refuse, the insurance company behind the guarantee will pay us our money back..apparantly!  We will wait and see, but the reason we are pulling out is not through panic it's purely because we have lost too much money waiting for this development to be finished, so we are looking elsewhere, not necessarily offplan.

Take care

Jannine

Thats very interesting Janine and is just the imformation I have been looking for. My solicitor informed me that a BG could not be issued until the bank had my money and it usually takes a couple of weeks, eighteen months later still no BG. I will now need to consider legal action against my solicitor, could you possibly PM me with details of yours?

Regards

John

Hi Janine

Thanks for that..........but, I still don't understand why / how you were able to do that and the rest of us were told we would be getting ours, but, as we all know, they never came ?

Somewhere on one of the forum topics, someone stated that the banks would'nt / could'nt give a Bank Guarantee until all the building licenses were in place.........or am I wrong about this. Perhaps Abolex Lawyers could shed some light on this.

Are our agents Ambasun International S.L then negligent for not advising us to part with any money until a BG was given ?

They also introduced us to PSI Laywers in Spain, but, we were advised to use independent Lawyers and not one recommended by the agents, and needless to say did not use them !

Hi All, Leading on from what TonyMal has just posted, San Jose are still operating their business. A few weeks ago I ordered an extra t.v. point, Pilar e-mailed the documentation which was duly signed and returned to her.Then all hell broke out with San Jose going into administration. However today I received an e-mail from Pilar thanking me for the documentation and she had added it to my file! Make of this what you will, would be interested in what others think of this turn of events? Cheers Joanniemac