A pair in Spain has been left devastated after they purchased a property however the proprietor has refused to maneuver out. The couple from Tenerife has been combating for greater than three years in courtroom in opposition to the earlier proprietor of the home.
José Miguel and Rosario had been on the lookout for a home for a while once they discovered the right place in La Laguna (Tenerife).
The home had every little thing they’d in thoughts – good location, an affordable value and an proprietor who, in precept, appeared prepared to promote. The preliminary transaction went easily and on 24 December 2019 they signed the sale and buy contract and shortly the nightmare started.
The vendor, a girl of Belgian origin, requested to be allowed to spend at the least that night time there, to which they agreed with none issues.
Nonetheless, the reply they acquired froze their blood: “Now I will keep as a squatter for 10 years.”
Rosario stated: “She began to make up excuses to be able to keep, every time the reasons stored altering, at all times excuses till we noticed that it was unattainable to achieve any type of answer along with her.”
READ MORE: Dad who watched son being ‘eaten alive’ by ‘meat-grinder shark’ breaks silence
The couple have filed a number of complaints and have even gone to the Supreme Court docket. They’ve gained all of the proceedings, and the eviction date was even set for March of this yr.
Rosario added: “We had an eviction date that was postponed due to the courtroom clerks’ strike and we’re ready for a brand new date.”
He defined that within the meantime they must proceed paying: “We’re paying the mortgage, the lease, the electrical energy payments. We pay completely every little thing besides the water.
“The squatting girl additionally makes use of the social protect.”
It has been three-and-a-half years since then and they’re nonetheless combating a authorized battle in opposition to the girl.
The customer couple has taken over the mortgage debt, however they nonetheless can not enter their home.
Regardless of agreeing to pay the mortgage on the home and even handing over a cheque for 50,000 euros, the girl has refused to depart.
She argues that, as she is caring for Moroccan youngsters, she can not go away the home as a result of she considers that they’d be left unprotected.
In the meantime, the couple has spent virtually 150,000 euros between the debt with the financial institution and the completely different bills concerned.
The couple informed Antena 3: “We purchased the home as a result of on the time we noticed it as a wonderful funding, for us it was like a peaceable retreat by the ocean.
“The home wanted lots of repairs, it was stuffed with issues and really soiled, but it surely appeared like a very good value and that is why we determined to go for it.”
The couple additionally blamed the gradual work on the justice system.
José Miguel stated: “She at all times claims to have a toddler in foster care and it is vitally troublesome to evict her. Justice has given us the explanation.
“I’ve lodged complaints with the juvenile prosecutor’s workplace, the La Laguna City Corridor, and the social companies. No person is doing something. The slowness… It could possibly’t take three and a half years for them to offer us what’s ours.”
Extra reporting by Maria Ortega.