It’s a hard thing to tell you but unless we make some significant progress with recovering community fees and utility bills from non paying owners, your community board is going to have to take drastic action.
If you owe money to the community you cannot reasonably expect to receive any services: no access to the doctor, no newspapers, no help from Ricardo, no discounts from Sol Andalusí bar, restaurant, gym or pool. It also means no access to the outdoor pool when it opens in a few months time: not to owners of apartments or their tenants either. We all know that the world and his wife seem to come to the pool but we are going to try harder this year to keep them out.
If you were anywhere else and you didn’t pay your bills, your service would be discontinued. If I don’t pay my electricity bill in London, not only is my service cut off, but I have to pay to be reconnected.
- · We have checked with the community lawyer and the community is within its legal rights to disconnect electricity and water for individual use in privately owned apartments of debtors
- · We will send out letters at the end of this week to those who will be cut off.
- · If you have a tenant who is living in your apartment, as opposed to being on holiday, then you should also be aware that we are within our legal rights to instruct the tenant to seize the rent to pay the community
Many people are slightly in debt from time to time, and anyone owing less than €750 will be considered to be up to date.
We continue to pursue UK debtors with five figure debts, and two are lined up to go to the County courts while two others are declared bankrupt. We hope the banks will repossess soon so we can reclaim what is owed to the community. We have just written out a cheque of over €10,000 to cover the legal fees and costs associated with progressing the legal action of the debtors to whom Burofaxes have been sent in Spain.
These are harsh words but the community cannot function without the fees and I am having sleepless nights trying to work out how we can pay the bills. Before you ask, “What about Sol Andalusí?” it is true they have been offsetting their fees but they have been paying the electricity bill, which we can’t. Without a paid up community we cannot operate independently of Sol Andalusí SA.
However, we have sent an email informing Sol Andalusí that from now on, any property privately owned by members of the Martínez family and their relations will appear on the debtors list and be pursued just like anyone else.
Despite all efforts, the community is still owed over €300,000. The community board and the administrators are the ones who every day are faced with the impossible situation of not having the funds for essential payments. We have a gas bill of over €24,000 which we simply cannot pay. Therefore we have to go cap in hand to Sol Andalusi. We have been given a deadline of 6 February and then after that there will be no more deliveries and a reconnection fee once the bill is settled.
No gas will mean no hot water or heating in the Central building . Please pay.
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