Opening party

There will be an opening party for the sport facilities at Finca San Antonio Social Club this coming weekend. Keep your eyes on this blog.

Deposit in the bank

We have put 25.000 euros on a 3 months deposit, in order to get some few interests (1%), while we reach the AGM and decide about it.

Wifi connection

We can now confirm that owners are able to access the internet from the Social club room. An access point has been installed to boost the signal from the President's apartment which will enable owners to take advantage of this and surf the internet, check emails etc. from your laptop whilst inside the comfort of the club

Paying IBI (rates) from your house abroad

If you are not coming to Spain soon, and you are afraid of having to pay a surcharge for the rates, you can send an email to the foreigners department in the Town Hall, in english, asking them to provide you the amount to pay and a bank account to do the transfer. But you will have to provide the reference 53650408 + your apartment number, as it is explained earlier in this blog.

Dear Owners,


Social Club:

We are very pleased to announce that this week we commissioned the final works required in the social club for the Indoor Pool and Jacuzzi.

Through Mario`s contacts and a lot of hard work we have been able to locate the original installers of the equipment in the social club. It will take 3 working days to get the equipment running, and then we will start filling the pool. We are hoping to have the works complete by the New Year.

If you are intending to be at Finca San Antonio over the New Year period please let us know as we would like to organize a celebration for the opening.

On the downside, whilst checking on the work required to get the pool operating we discovered that a valuable piece of steam generating equipment has been stolen from the Steam Room. This will need to be replaced before the Steam Room can operate. The cost for replacing this item together with issues associated with the running costs /use of the steam room and sauna will be reported to the A.G.M
For the time being we will concentrate on the pool and jacuzzi, together with toilet and shower facilities.


The Social Meeting Room:

The room is now being used as our social room offering book sharing , cd & video hire. A TV has kindly been donated and we have Sky fitted. We are hoping to have a WiFi spot operating in the room shortly. We are now able to use the table and chairs that were bought from previous pig roast funds, and we have bought the book shelves and a table tennis table from this year`s pig roast profits.

The committee would like to thank Pauline Monnington who has taken on the responsibility to open & close the room daily, and has taken a very active role in making the room successful. Without her help this would have been very difficult.


Large Outdoor Pool:

The tile repair works and re-grouting have now been completed on the pool. As part of this work, the overflow feature, which did not function properly has been sealed. The pool side tiling and the concrete pool edge is now continuous across the former cill to the overflow. The decision to do this work and incorporate it with the other pool repair works had to be made quickly. It came about following discussions with Mijas Town Hall who advised us that the overflow had to be made to work properly or sealed from the rest of the pool, otherwise we would not receive a pool license. After investigation we were unable to establish how the overflow could be made to work as intended, therefor we had no choice but to seal the overflow. We will be looking at the possibility of reusing the waterfall area as an independent water feature in the near future.


2009 has been a very big year for our community. We had a very difficult start to the year, but we can all be very pleased that our community is now moving forward and several major problems are now behind us. We may still have legal issues to sort out but now we can and should be very positive about our future.


We would like to thank Mario and his staff for helping our community and all the efforts they have made on our behalf.


Finally we take this opportunity to wish you all a Very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New Year


Best Wishes.

Terri Jackson President
Graham Walker Vice President
& The Committee.
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Finca San Antonio


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Works in Social Club

No, this is not our indoor pool yet, but please be aware that Santa Claus may bring us a present for Christmas. Don't keep your swimmming clothes too deep in the wardrobe.

MInutes EGM 26 nov 2009

The minutes have been sent by email to everybody. If you haven't got them, please send us an email to mario@mariobravo.com

GPS in your car

GPS

A couple of weeks ago a friend told me that someone she knew had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents.

Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your homeaddress in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would knowwhere you live if your GPS were stolen.

Santa Claus has come to town

Embargo from Social Security

When a person or a company does not pay the social security, usually they get in touch with the clients of that company, asking them not to pay the bills to the debtor, but to the social security directly. This process is called "embargo de créditos", something like "seizure of credits". The social security (and the Tax Office), know the clients of everybody because we all have to make a yearly tax declaration of our clients and suppliers about 3.000 euros per year.

Because of the above, we have known that San Antonio Property, SL owes 234.000 euros to the Social Security, and they are notifying some owners in Finca San Antonio about this. This will not make you pay anything else, it only means that, in case you owe money to San Antonio Property for any reason, you should pay this money directly to the Social Security.. So, if you get a registered letter from the Social Security, please don't panic.