Sunday, February 03, 2008

The Moving Population


Well we have been here for over three years now, we were the first to move into the road along with John and Linda, we watched the block of apartments opposite get finished off and people move in, its noticable how many people have sold up again, left to go back to the UK or permanently let their property, there are several properties on the market in our road but there are so many in this area for sale they are like a needle in a haystack, and with the the slump in the property market there is not a lot of hope for sellers.
Quite a few of the properties are now used for holidays ,and the longer term tenants seem to come and go on a frequent basis so we see a regular change of faces.
As more and more people realise they are not going to sell easily it will be good if they rent longer term so that we can continue to have a good community.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

So long as owners are a bit more choosy as to who they long term rent out to. Some apartments on our complex have been let out "undesirables" and are letting the complex down

John and Mary Middleton said...

See my blog, "Living in a holiday camp", August 6th 2007 regarding holiday lets.
In what way are these tenants "undesirable"

Anonymous said...

The long term renters on our community dont obide by any of the community rules, which are there for a purpose, and their attitude is "so what, we dont care". The apartments are being let for next to nothing. Unlike where you are, we do not have a problem with the people who use the apartments for holidaying (well not in my experience anyway) - like ourselves - it is the non owners, long term renters, who play the loud music, have the telly on loud, let the kids run riot with no sign of the parents. I know people who own a ground floor apartment and they cannot put up with it anymore so they have put their apartment up for sale - not that there is much chance of selling it. A few minority though are spoiling a nice complex. And I have heard, from a pretty good source, that one apartment's resident is, well a dealer for illegal substances!!

John and Mary Middleton said...

It is the duty of the owners of property in a complex, to ensure their tenants comply with the rules of the community, as a community you can denounce the landlords concerned under the Horizontal Community Act(condominium act) section 9g which is - to observe due care in the use of the property and in the relationship with other unit owners and to account for any violations or damages.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for your advise John and Mary. Hopefully things will get better once we contact the owners.

Kind regards
Ange
by the way, love your site.