long term rental

[Maya01]

Originally Posted by chris(madrid)

Working in a town hall gives me a certain insight.

Oooh Chris maybe you can help me out as you work in a local townhall. We've been in Spain for 4 years, husband registered autonomo and pays tax and social security, as well as all the townhall bills for our home. However, our roof fell down in the bad rain (Malaga) of late December and the insurance won't pay and lawyer has advised 5000 euros to take them to court.

Anyway, local townhall say they can't help yet our neighbours opposite recently had their roof collapse a couple of weeks ago and they've told us the townhall are replacing it for them! We've been back to the townhall this morning and they say they're not doing the neighbours roof and won't do ours either. Obviously, we can't prove a thing!

You can imagine how furious we are - our house is unhabitable and we're now paying mortgage and rent which is a real financial burden and isn't helping us to get the money needed to replace our roof.

So my question is, do local townhalls have any obligations to help us? We'll happily agree monthly repayments with them if they help us out. The house is an old terraced Spanish townhouse and we've been told the problem might start affecting the neighbours houses.

Thanks, in advance, for your reply.
Maya

[chris(madrid)]

Why wont Insurance pay is more the point. If it's a failure to meet contractual obligations I'd pay a visit to the Guardia Civil and issue a "denuncia".

I'd be VERY surprised if a town hall repairs a PRIVATE roof. If the property belonged to the town hall - i,e it's sort of a council home - then that would be different, naturally.

The only way I can see that happening would be if there's some form of special grant/assistance. Either local/regional or national. It's not my area but I've chatted to our Architect and he's not aware of anything either.

[palmanovadave]

Hi Sharron,

Living in the countryside in mallorca myself and your best bet would probably be t rent a small guest appartment attached to a country house here. Have seen some and prices vary but say cheap 2 bed around 750 euros per month but that usualy includes the water and electric and rates so no extra's on top. Maybe possible to find cheaper but Mallorca is not a cheap place to live anymore im affraid its now quite exclusive and expensive. One thing is your never very far away from the sea whever you stay.
All the best
Dave