Dear Owners, April has been a calmer month and much has been achieved. The temporary plant pots that were in place outside Block 1 have been replaced with long, low planters plus 3 large palms in big pots. We went for long and low planters because the big pots that were there temporarily were being blown over in high winds. As I said last month the overwhelming response has been very positive. I know that the owners of the five cars that used to regularly park outside Block 1 [...]

Dear Owners I’m delighted to advise you that as of yesterday the heat pumps to pool 2 were finally reinstated. The temperature yesterday of the pool was 18 degrees and this morning it was 21. I know it’s late in the season but we finally got there and at a fraction of the prices we were originally quoted. Patti

Dear Owners, This has been a busy month. The new cleaning company started on 1st March and we have needed to make a few adjustments in terms of our requirements. The company’s plan was to concentrate on a thorough cleaning of each block first but that led to some owners being dissatisfied with the service. We have taken all comments on board and amended the schedule accordingly. Hopefully we will get to a stage where everyone – or at least almost everyone – is happy. We finally recovered all [...]

Dear Owners, February has been more of the same – trying to unravel the mysteries of the previous administration, dealing with day to day events and looking at ways to improve things for the future and save money. Gerardo has been visiting the community every week and I have had several other meetings with him in his office this month as well as daily contact via email and phone. There are still outstanding requests for items from our old Administrator and her delaying tactics are frustrating and annoying. We [...]

Dear Owners, Problems with the handover to the new administration company continued well into January as the old administrator failed to meet the agreed deadline of 31st December. Minutes of the AGM had not been finalised which meant we were unable to make changes at the community’s bank or really get to grips with anything without the relevant information. Documents were finally handed over in the middle of the month but the problems were far from over. The Minutes of our AGMs from previous years had not been recorded [...]