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Old 1st July 2009, 07:35 PM
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Originally from england. Expat in spain.
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As some of you are aware i moved to benalmadena a few weeks ago, for the sun, better life and a new start, however a bit of advise to anyone thinking of giving it ago.
We got our appartment on the net through a company which i cheaked out and all was good, we paid our deposit and first months rent picked up the keys and all was well, being our first time to the costa we never new many people and after only eight days we were robbed of all our belongings money computers cameras ect and the people who robbed us never broke in but had keys to our appartment,
the appartment was new and thad never been lived in before the company denied it had anything to do with them and the police were even worse , having loged the crime with the national police in madrid the local police took 4 days to visit us,
we did however get all our deposit and rent back of the developer which in its self is a confession of guilt.

the moral to this is simple, dont trust anyone if you are coming over to the costa change your locks and dont give the landlord a key , dont phone the police or even the press as you will only be frustrated by paperwork apart from that the sun is shining and the money is coming in we are back on our feet and have finally put this bad start behind us.

Big Bill
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