26 Mar 2015 4:55 PM:

Hi David

I've emailed Resortalia to let them know, as security not much help as my manager cant be specific exactly when they were taken.

I'm over in resort on Tuesday so I'll pick it up with security again, but you would have thought somebody would notice 6 chairs being removed. they're not the easiest things to carry.

Mark

Community thread: Theft of terrace furniture on phase 1

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26 Mar 2015 3:29 PM:

Unfortunately I've just been informed by my apartment manager that 6 terrace chairs have been stolen from my ground floor apartment terrace on block 15, phase 1. They are black all weather chairs and have only just been put outside after being inside all winter.

I just wanted to let everybodty know so that you can keep an eye on your stuff if you have a ground floor apartment.

I've been an owner since Roda started and I'm really pretty gutted that we've gotten to this.

Having to bring everything in at night or chain it up is not what Roda is about, and rather defeats the point of having active security patrols, but clearly there are some people on resort who think its accpetable to help themselves to other people furniture.

Mark

 

 

 

Community thread: Theft of terrace furniture on phase 1

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30 Jan 2012 12:00 AM:

I have a client who wishes to find another ground floor apartment close to our own on block 15, phase 1 for two weeks from July 29th.  Does anybody have any avail?

thanks

 

Community thread: ground floor phase 1 apartment required july 29th for 14 days

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07 Aug 2010 3:15 PM:

Both of our apartments are currently on long term lets on phase1, both to Spanish workers at repsol in Cartagena. Both are let for 11 months and I considering what to do next year in the light of changes to tax laws. I have had no problems, my neighbours tell me they are hardly ever there and we have no issues with noise etc. This is the first time I've let on a long term basis as I have always rented both on short term prior. 

The reason I have done so this is is two fold, one the cost of cleaning rose quite dramatically which started to make weekly rentals much less attractive. I wanted a break from the administation of the bookings for this year which takes a lot of time and the interest rate on my mortgages became a fraction of what it had been previously.

After paying my rental manager his cut I come out with circa 500 euros a month for each apartment. Not very much I accept, particularly in the summer, but then again from oct through march thats 3000 euros for each apartment I wouldn't have had in rentals. The tenants pay the utilities and I cover the other costs from the rent. I just about break even over the year but only because the mortgage is 1/3 of what is was 18 months ago.

It's worth adding up the costs of advertising for holiday lets, cleans etc in terms of working out what your nett, rather than gross income is from holiday renting in terms of making a comparison with the income from long term

I will prob go back to renting myself next year after having taken a break but I have to say that I've had no issues related to the long term rentals at all.

  I tend to take the view that if you are living somewhere for the next year you tend to take a bit more care of it than if you stay in it for a week and then never see it again.

It might not be for everybody but it's not all horror stories.

Mark

 

Community thread: Long Term Rentals Needed

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14 Jul 2010 6:40 PM:

You now have the same rights to claim your apartment as a business (and subsequent losses) on your UK tax return as somebody owing a holiday cottage in devon. To qualify your apartment must be avail to rent for not less than 140 days a year and must have been rented for 70 days (and for no longer than a month at a time) in the tax year.

If this is the case then you can put all of your rental income and all of your costs for your apartment onto your UK tax return and offset any loss in the tax year against your personal tax. This can be backdated to when you first bought at roda.

if in doubt get some advice from an accountant but I managed to get all of the cost of setting my apartment up at roda offfset against my uk tax and the tax man sent me a cheque for several thousand pounds. You need to hang onto bills etc for all of your costs so you can evidence if needs be

Mark

Community thread: CERTIFICADO DE CONTRATAS Y SUBCONTRATAS.

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