31 Oct 2006 5:27 PM:

I wont continue this conversation here but if anyone wants to contact me to have a discussion on this subject please do.

I feel very sorry for those people who invested in lanzarote beach but it was a timeshare,,this is now completley different,,they never owned the freeholds or in fact no part of the complex. There are very good reason they have an in house agents and other agents cant get into the complex..however once a person who owns their villa ( freehold ) wants to sell they may use any agent they so wish ( in the contract )

This is a different situation from the awful scandel that was Lanzarote beach.

 

jason

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29 Oct 2006 3:44 PM:

Please please please !!!!!!!!!

Unless you have purchased a property here and been through the process and yes solicitor has been invloved you cant really comment can you.

This is designed to be really an investment and not to live there on a permanant basis. You do not pay the community charge if you rent your villa back to sands beach resort for more than 6 months of the year. How do they pay for the maintance well its from the rent that your villa produces over them months as you get a percentage of the rent and they take a percentage as well.

You can not buy maintance free

Really you shouldnt try to scare people off

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08 Sep 2006 12:00 AM:

I would just like to add to this about sands beach villas

I have just purchased a villa here and i have been looking around for 2 years.This resort is lovely and you can have more than the 3 weeks a year if you require.Then rental percentage is worked out for you if you require more weeks than the 3 however how many of us would want to go there more than 3 weeks a year unless your retired.

The villas are refurbished to an extremley high standard and this is done when u make the purchase not when all the villas are sold. All the people i have spoken to and emailed at sands beach have been excellent. As long as you rent your villa to sands beach resort for minimum 6 months of the year you are not charged the maintance fee.I would agree that around 250 euros a month is a lot however my friends pays more for his caravan in dover !!!! plus he dont own the freehold !!

As far as i know if you book say 6 weeks during the year you can rent those 6 weeks to family and friends at the cost you wish.As long as sands beach are aware that those weeks are not available for them to rent out its not a problem.

I say go for it

jason

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