by peejay » Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:57 pm
Thanks to everyone for shared experiences, advice and comments. It makes us feel much better in a perverse kind of way to know that it is not just us!
We are (hopefully) buying on AP1 but have had problems with that as we first of all had an allocation, then we didn't, then we had a new allocation (which was further back), then we found that the price we had been quoted was incorrect (in Fadesa's favour, by 1,000 euros). On this last point Fadesa have admitted that they had quoted the wrong price to our agent, who had then passed it on to us, but refused to honour the original price quoted.
So, with their apparent refusal now to even discuss amendments to the contract, it is making us twitchy to say the least. We really don't want to walk away, but are beginning to wonder just how professional an organisation we are dealing with.
We were told last week that Fadesa were chasing for the return of our contact but our agent told them that it was with our solicitor and they seemed to accept that, we've not heard otherwise anyhow.
We are certainly not signing the contract as it stands. We are going to do what some others have done and send the details of our solicitor's queries and recommendations to our agent and ask them to take them up with Fadesa on our behalf.
In the meantime our solicitor has said that he will ask Fadesa whether they are willing for our contract and monies to go through a Moroccan Notaire, as he/she would ensure that the proper papers, permissions, etc are in place in accordance with Moroccan law before being handed over to the developers. We don't hold out much hope of this being agreed to, but it seems worth giving it a go - the solicitor says that he would be happy with this if it was agreed to by Fadesa.
Will post again when we hear anything new.