August 2024 update

Last Updated on Thursday, 5 September 2024 05:25 Written by Steve Dent Thursday, 5 September 2024 05:25

                                                                                   August 2024 update

Presidents comments,

We are still waiting for the VV list from the authorities, as you are aware most government offices close down for the whole of August.
Illegal lettings on our complex ( AirBNB, Booking .com, hotels.com….etc), are becoming a problem for many owners, as are some legal VV license holders. As this is a residential complex, they are reluctant to display a set of rules in their apartment, so their “guests” are unaware we have any rules !!.

Complex issues/work updates.
The swimming pool.

As per the last update ( July) regarding our pool guard, we sadly had to let him go, he did an excellent job for the 3 weeks he was here, although we had several altercations with resident owners/renters who were here on holiday because he was implementing the Spanish pool rules. We had a confrontation with a resident owner and his family who live on D1, who refused to adhere to the rules regarding large inflatables, he was asked to not put it into the pool, he refused to speak English and said he didn’t understand what I was saying, so our pool guard translated, he still refused, so I told him if it went into the pool we would call the police. He picked it up and put it in the pool, and said “now call the police”, unfortunately the police refused to attend, within minutes people were diving in and other inflatables appeared, 3 weeks of good work and a calm pool area for everyone were ruined. I can’t believe a resident owner would do that on his own complex, go against the rules that are there to protect young children. Our guard said to me ” what do I do now ? “, so I had to let him go, it would have been silly to keep paying the daily rate when no one was going to take any notice of him. I fear it might take a serious incident before people using the pool will follow the rules.

I lock the pool gates at sunset, due to people in the pool at all hours, now the pool is a lot calmer as the children are returning to school, we can look to doing some essential repairs to both pools.

We had issues with the complex main gate, and post area gate losing power, it should have gone into an “open state ” in a power failure situation, that didn’t happen, so we had issues until the company that installed the system came to make the repair. It has now been tested and works as it should.

We have had a request from an owner for an electric charging point in his garage space, so we are looking at quotes and the work involved for both A and B garages.

Unfortunately we had a burglary on B2 the other Saturday evening between 5pm and 11pm, jewellery, personal items, and cash were taken. Footage from 6 cameras were downloaded for the police to go through. Please be careful to make sure you secure your apartment when you go out.

There has been a lot of dog fouling on the complex, I have had 2 lots outside my apartment even though we don’t have a single dog of our floor , our Vice President had dog mess on his door mat !!, the cleaners have reported it on all blocks, if you know who might be responsible inform one of the committee please.

Clouds pool bar has new owners, some of you may already know Eddie, he has been the barman since it last changed hands, we are meeting with Eddie and his partner at the next committee meeting ( tomorrow), we wish him and his team all the best for the future.

Remember the library is open every Wednesday from 10am to 11am to exchange books, we have books in all languages, it’s located by the post boxes. I would like to thank Linda Carey for the help and time she is giving to get the books into some sort of order, it’s much appreciated.

You can contact me during the day if you have an issue on 683 165 416.

Security.
No major problems this month ( apart from the burglary of course), just the usual idiots out on the terrace after a night of drinking till the early hours.
Emergency Night/disturbance, starts at 11pm till 7am, you can call them on 671 14 66 16, no names or apartment numbers of who calls appears on the report sheet. These reports help us build up a record of persistent nuisance apartments.

Thank you for taking the time to read this update
Regards Steve