Help me !
21-03-2012, 23:45
Hey everyone !
I will try to make my story short. Im from Russia and a few years ago I've bought two apartments in Atalaya Court. Ive registered them on my mother's name because she is a citizen of EU and its easier for her to travel there. Ive made some repairs there, one of the aprartments was really high-class with good furniture, 46" flat-screen, PS3, AC, etc.
After a summer that Ive spent there - I decided to rent them out to someone. My mother was a friend of our neighbour who was a woman from Ukraine and spoke russian language. She gave us a contact of two sisters who work as attorneys - Brigida Osle Pascual and her sister Berta. She told us that they can help us with renting out the aparments and taking care of communidad and land payments.
Ive never met them myself, my mother handled everything and I trusted her judgement, but it was a mistake :( Somehow my mother was convinced that there is no way to pay communidad and land payments via bank account and it should be done with cash money. So every month this Brigida woman took money from the people who rented the apartments, took her 10% and put the money on communidad, and the whats left - on my bank account.
I thought everything is going great and I also transfered all the yearly land payments to her so she can pay for it. Please dont think Im stupid - Im a businessman and I dont have time to mess around with all this stuff, I thought my mother (who is not old and perfectly sane) found the right person for the job. She even sent us all the renting agreements in spanish language of course.
So the conclusion of this story is very tragic. This Brigida person vanished on December 2011. My mother took a plane there a few weeks ago and it turned out that our debt for the land payment is now around 2000 euro and for communidad - 4500 euro. So basically now I owe 6500 euro out of the blue.
Also all the things from the apartments were stolen, and the worst thing is that the communidad boss had changed and there are new people running this Atalaya Court place and they dont have a bank account where people should pay, so they give them cash money.
My mother went to police, been there for numerous days, but police only told that we should not trust anyone on this island and that there is no way we can legally fight with this Brigida person, because courts on Tenerife is a pain in the ass especially for foreigners.
This russian-speaking neighbor doesnt live there anymore, her aparment was taken by the bank. So no contacts left :(
So longs story short - my investment in this island was a big mistake :( I really dont know what to do now cause the euro currency is lower than it was and selling those apartments now means losing money. On top of that I really dont know where I should pay for the communidad and the land now because of all these scamers around.
If anyone here has some kind of law education or is an attorney or can help for money or for free - please tell me. My mother will fly there in April to fix the situation so I need to know if someone can help her with that for payment if needed.
Really need your help guys, I dont trust anyone on this island, Im so annoyed now that I have to lose so much nerves and time and money to fix this **** :(
Please help me !!!
Thank you, please reply or pm me !
Added after 4 minutes:
She also made my mother sign some kind of paper, can anyone translate please:
Yo, (my mom's name) con NIE Y-********. autonizo a Brigida Cristina Osle Pascual con DNI ********* a actuar en mi nombre en el ayuntamiento de Adeje y recoger las cartas de pago de lbi y Basura que se adeudan en mi propiedad en Atalaya Court, Adeje.
Can you tell me what does it mean please ?
I will try to make my story short. Im from Russia and a few years ago I've bought two apartments in Atalaya Court. Ive registered them on my mother's name because she is a citizen of EU and its easier for her to travel there. Ive made some repairs there, one of the aprartments was really high-class with good furniture, 46" flat-screen, PS3, AC, etc.
After a summer that Ive spent there - I decided to rent them out to someone. My mother was a friend of our neighbour who was a woman from Ukraine and spoke russian language. She gave us a contact of two sisters who work as attorneys - Brigida Osle Pascual and her sister Berta. She told us that they can help us with renting out the aparments and taking care of communidad and land payments.
Ive never met them myself, my mother handled everything and I trusted her judgement, but it was a mistake :( Somehow my mother was convinced that there is no way to pay communidad and land payments via bank account and it should be done with cash money. So every month this Brigida woman took money from the people who rented the apartments, took her 10% and put the money on communidad, and the whats left - on my bank account.
I thought everything is going great and I also transfered all the yearly land payments to her so she can pay for it. Please dont think Im stupid - Im a businessman and I dont have time to mess around with all this stuff, I thought my mother (who is not old and perfectly sane) found the right person for the job. She even sent us all the renting agreements in spanish language of course.
So the conclusion of this story is very tragic. This Brigida person vanished on December 2011. My mother took a plane there a few weeks ago and it turned out that our debt for the land payment is now around 2000 euro and for communidad - 4500 euro. So basically now I owe 6500 euro out of the blue.
Also all the things from the apartments were stolen, and the worst thing is that the communidad boss had changed and there are new people running this Atalaya Court place and they dont have a bank account where people should pay, so they give them cash money.
My mother went to police, been there for numerous days, but police only told that we should not trust anyone on this island and that there is no way we can legally fight with this Brigida person, because courts on Tenerife is a pain in the ass especially for foreigners.
This russian-speaking neighbor doesnt live there anymore, her aparment was taken by the bank. So no contacts left :(
So longs story short - my investment in this island was a big mistake :( I really dont know what to do now cause the euro currency is lower than it was and selling those apartments now means losing money. On top of that I really dont know where I should pay for the communidad and the land now because of all these scamers around.
If anyone here has some kind of law education or is an attorney or can help for money or for free - please tell me. My mother will fly there in April to fix the situation so I need to know if someone can help her with that for payment if needed.
Really need your help guys, I dont trust anyone on this island, Im so annoyed now that I have to lose so much nerves and time and money to fix this **** :(
Please help me !!!
Thank you, please reply or pm me !
Added after 4 minutes:
She also made my mother sign some kind of paper, can anyone translate please:
Yo, (my mom's name) con NIE Y-********. autonizo a Brigida Cristina Osle Pascual con DNI ********* a actuar en mi nombre en el ayuntamiento de Adeje y recoger las cartas de pago de lbi y Basura que se adeudan en mi propiedad en Atalaya Court, Adeje.
Can you tell me what does it mean please ?