Have any info ?

[lizandsilvy]

Thanks - appreciate the support. It is in fact the same developers that are doing "Nautilus" - but "funnily" enough - they are not selling very well! Most of the first owners here in "Carey" were doctors, Giuiu did a presentation in the local hospital in Zaragoza, Spain, to sell at the beginning. And it appears that they all bought for investment, as were told they would be rented out constantly - another little lie - so we havent seen any of them in the time we have been here - but obviously now are trying to investigate further.
We are still going to take the newspaper article into our lawyer and see what he says, as before it was just us again the spaniards, now there is proof that things are were not right.
I will also check what else we can do - I am from Scotland, but my husband is from the Canary Islands in Spain - who incidentally "HATE" any mainland Spanish - Canarias have their own government etc - we just want to get rid, so have it advertised for less than we paid for it - we just hope now with the busy season coming, that someone will want it - and then we can move on and find the dream that we came here to have! But believe me - the bad mouthing of these spanish guys is only just beginning...........

[Lambada]

Thought you might be a fellow Brit. (style of writing). Our Ambassador, if you need him, is Ian Worthington. Very approachable. Contact details (in SD) here
UK Embassies Overseas*Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Website here:
*Dominican Republic

[BushBaby]

Originally Posted by lizandsilvy

Thanks - appreciate the support. It is in fact the same developers that are doing "Nautilus" - but "funnily" enough - they are not selling very well! Most of the first owners here in "Carey" were doctors, Giuiu did a presentation in the local hospital in Zaragoza, Spain, to sell at the beginning. And it appears that they all bought for investment, as were told they would be rented out constantly - another little lie - so we havent seen any of them in the time we have been here - but obviously now are trying to investigate further.

But believe me - the bad mouthing of these spanish guys is only just beginning...........

Don't bad mouth them Lizandsilvy .... get EVEN!!
Sold to a load of Doctors you say?? Get those disgruntled doctors to have a word with fellow doctors to call Giuiu to do a presentation at another hospital somewhere, sedate him when he enters for the presentation & then get all your fellow doctor owners to VISIT him to TALK things over. A suggestion that a surgical operation might be necessary because they are worried about testicular cancer might help him agree to refund & 'Mucho Dinero'!!!!!

Good Luck ~ Grahame.

[Chip]

It appears to me that somebody was cutting costs. I know engineers here personally here in the DR and they work typically in the same manner as other places. They are paid a fee to design the project and then when the plans are completed they are competitively bid for by contractors, most of the time who are not in any way affiliated with the engineer. In other words, it does not give the engineer any advantage to specify inferior material as he only gets a flat fee for the plans preparation and nothing for the construction portion of the work. It also behooves the engineer to not give in to the client and go cheap as so many desire because ineveitably everyone will forget that the client wanted a cheaper alternative and will only remember that the engineer prepared the plans. Therefore, every engineer learns to not take chances where their very livelihood - their license to practice engineering - is at stake.

Also, with some simple items like plumbing and wiring, there is very little variety in the grade of material that is available for construction so therefore it sounds more like to me an issue of poor management of the workers, or hiring unqualified laborers to do the installation - again not the job of the engineer for most typical contracts but rather that of the contractor.

[lizandsilvy]

Sounds like a plan.....but don't you need "balls" to have testicular cancer???????
Going to find the details of the doctors that gave us the background on these two in the first place - and let them know what is happening.......oh the joys of buying in the Dominican Republic! Think we have experienced it all in our short time here - so can't get any worse - I hope!

[lizandsilvy]

Thanks Lambada for the Consular info......

[MikeFisher]

to fight them would be the best i think, because to sell it to somebody who doesn't have a clue about the s.. he will purchase?,yeah, maybe you'll find one, maybe some spanish doctor, he he.
but basically after the news is out about the quality of that construction, who want's to buy his caribbean dream house with a leaking roof aso??
i don't think any of that property will be sold soon, doesn't matter how cheap the offer will be.
Mike

[STEVE G.]

Looking for owners Residencial Carey

[Lucille]

What about Laguna Golf Residential "White Sands" any good or bad info on this complex? Thank you..Lucille

[DRandGR]

After reading your post I am getting nervous about an apartment I am buying in the Laguna Golf Development in White Sands. I have heard several stories of problems with the title to the land. These are of course disputed by the real estate agent. In the meantime we are waiting to hear from our lawyer before moving foward.