21 May 2008 8:49 PM:

Thank you all for your advice and yes maybe Gillespie I did post on the wrong thread, but it was interesting to know your thoughts.
My builder did not give us a gurantee and I must say we did all the right things and made sure we ticked everything  ( british t.v. advice on buying abroad) but their comes a time when you have to trust somebody . I think  build from plan is only suitable really for investors, these are the people that spend thier life taking risks.
I like many others worked so hard to save this money so I know my only hope now is to wait yet again and suffer another british winter.
This weekend very large overseas property show in Glasgow I will be thier and given the chance will air my views on this subject thanks again

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20 May 2008 8:13 PM:

just joined the forum and have to say i'm surprised no mention of the silly people like myself who trusted an agent and bought off plan in 2004 with the promise of a completion date 2006 when the rate was 1.44. Still no completion date in sight (maybe easter2009) What a nightmare the property will now cost me at least 20,000 more the fixtures and fittings god knows how much more . I had my pension paid into a spanish bank and have had to have it brought back home as I was loosing so much.
I had a deam to spend my retirement years in spain and made a deal which was ready afordable but now I constantly worry that this dream may not come true.
I have no chance of my deposit of 72,000 back as the builders are not liquid enough even although my contract states if they did not start to build in 18months deposit was returnable , not worth the paper it was written on ! The cost of living in Britain is so bad I have had to go back to work . I just so much wish I had bought a new or resale property and I would have been in sunny spain now .I am usually a very upbeat happy person but this has left me so dispondant

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