08 Dec 2006 10:49 AM:

Hi Alfie

Oh how frustrating, we are lucky that the solicitor still has ours and we are in the process of getting back so it can sit in our account and gain interest and not theirs like it has been doing for over a year.

One thing that I have learnt is that if the solicitors can get away with not doing something they will. The only way we got them to agree to give us our money back was by threatening to go over there and cause a disturbance, then surprise, surprise we could all of a sudden have our money. What is most annoying is that they should never had been pushing for our money in the first place because the license problem was already happening when they were chasing.

It's a sad case but you have to be pushy and you have to be persistent. If you haven't had your bank guarantee then start calling everyday like we did and tell them that you are going to call them every day until they give them to you and if you have no luck after around two weeks of calling every day threaten to go over there, they seem to do things then.

It's a pain, you shouldn't have to do it but sadly it's the only thing that seems to work and lets face it, this is no text book transaction, it's a lot of money and we have to look after ourselves.

Just in the remote case Alfie, our money got sent direct to our solicitors bank account - Aldea. I know that they initially told us it was going straight to Huma but it turned out it never did - not sure if the solicitor told you it was Humas account or if it was from the horses mouth so to speak?

Good luck!

Community thread: fiscal representive.

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07 Dec 2006 12:38 PM:

Hi Alfie

Quick question, your £37k - who is holding this, Huma or the solicitor?

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07 Dec 2006 12:34 PM:

Many thanks for your replys everyone!

Lets hope 2007 brings us some good news...!!

Community thread: Part Time Work

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15 Nov 2006 12:00 AM:

Hi

Can someone tell me the date when the builders officially stopped working on the site please? I don't seem to have a date for this? Just trying to work out if Parador got my money before or after they were off site.

If someone could let me know ASAP I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks!

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13 Nov 2006 12:00 AM:

We have a Donana corner plot due to be completed May 2007. At the moment we have put down a deposit only, not actually paid the builders any money at all except for this. However the solicitor and Parador hassled us to get our first stage payment sent over to Spain which we did a year ago. We have only just been told that we can have our money transferred back over to us but less the deposit, less any interest and obvioulsy costing us currency exchange costs.

We transferred our money in December 2005 after which we understand Parador and the solicitor had full knowledge of the problems with the licenses.

We are looking to sell our off plan if anyone at all would be interested. We will sell it at the price of the deposit and the cost to make up the shortfall of the exchange rate. Remember there have been NO stage payments made as yet. We don't want to make any money at this stage, just recover our expenses. If someone is interested in this, then please do email me on mapplegate@accolade-corporate-events.com. We would stick it out but due to other circumstances we can't. So if anyone fancies a relatively low investment gamble then this may be for you, as the property value should have increased by the time they finally get around to building them!!

I realise that people may not be interested which is fair enough. I'd like to ask if anyone else was asked by Aldea and Parador to transfer money over when they knew full well of the problems?

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