Hello again,
I moved to a house in Galicia about 9 months ago. I've had a very good relationship with the owner who has fixed minor problems for us around the house and generally been supportive.
However.
I noticed that a part of the garden was very marshy during the winter. She assured me that it was due to the high winter water table. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. It got worse over time. I opened the lid of the septic tank and it was full of water. She paid for it to be emptied under duress. Builders came to inspect it and said it needed to be dug up and replaced but she balked at the cost. Within a few days it became full again.
The lady has a very strange logic where she says she can't afford to fix it but then paid a lot of money to have it emptied several times. She has told me that as I negotiated the rent down that I can't expect everything "to be perfect" :wacko: In any case her kids need braces and she can't afford it.
The house is for sale at a vastly unrealistic price so she appears not to want to spend any money.
The ground at entrance gate to the street is like a marsh, with visible surface water, it stinks like crazy when you answer the door to someone. There is water flowing out the gate onto the street after a bath or a shower and there is a think thatch of vegetation growing out of the tarmac in the effluent. This flows down a steep street where there is a river at the bottom.
I have tried a number of different approaches including writing her a formal letter/report with pictures but she is in denial or trying to ******** her way out of the problem. I now need to get a little bit "heavy".
What are my options to compel her to fix it? Who wold I contact? Where do I stand legally?
Apart from the unpleasantness of the situation there is a genuine environmental/pollution issue here.
As always many thanks for taking the time to reply
I moved to a house in Galicia about 9 months ago. I've had a very good relationship with the owner who has fixed minor problems for us around the house and generally been supportive.
However.
I noticed that a part of the garden was very marshy during the winter. She assured me that it was due to the high winter water table. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. It got worse over time. I opened the lid of the septic tank and it was full of water. She paid for it to be emptied under duress. Builders came to inspect it and said it needed to be dug up and replaced but she balked at the cost. Within a few days it became full again.
The lady has a very strange logic where she says she can't afford to fix it but then paid a lot of money to have it emptied several times. She has told me that as I negotiated the rent down that I can't expect everything "to be perfect" :wacko: In any case her kids need braces and she can't afford it.
The house is for sale at a vastly unrealistic price so she appears not to want to spend any money.
The ground at entrance gate to the street is like a marsh, with visible surface water, it stinks like crazy when you answer the door to someone. There is water flowing out the gate onto the street after a bath or a shower and there is a think thatch of vegetation growing out of the tarmac in the effluent. This flows down a steep street where there is a river at the bottom.
I have tried a number of different approaches including writing her a formal letter/report with pictures but she is in denial or trying to ******** her way out of the problem. I now need to get a little bit "heavy".
What are my options to compel her to fix it? Who wold I contact? Where do I stand legally?
Apart from the unpleasantness of the situation there is a genuine environmental/pollution issue here.
As always many thanks for taking the time to reply