07 Jan 2007 3:49 PM:

Hi Everyone,

Just found this site and thought I would let you know about our experience.  We bought a 2 bed apartment on Playa Golf III, Campoamor and received the keys in September 2006.  We had the locks changed immediately and had a door grille fitted to the front door.  Some friends of ours went out in November and on their last day the apartment was broken into.  The ink was hardly dry on the contract!  Although we had the door grille (we are 2 flights up) the just used a wrench or something to batter the door in - you should have seen it - it was completely demolished - so much for door grilles and changing the locks! Unfortunately we are only about the 3rd people to move into our block - so it was nice and quiet for them.

All they got away with was some English money and a couple of gold chains of my friend's - the total haul probably amounted to about £50.  Now we have got to have a whole new door and frame and will have to look into having a better security grille (the one we first had was bought off the builder San Jose).  It has left us feeling very upset and wondering if we have done the right thing in buying in this part of Spain.  I dont even want to go out there at the moment and feel very disappointed and let down.  What other security can we have?  We thought we had done everything to stop this happening to us.

Regards,

Ladybug

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