For anyone who is thinking of long term letting, especially any on here who are UK domicile, this may be of interest to you -
"One of the best ways to avoid non-paying tenants is to take pre-emptive measures such as carefully screening candidates, weeding out those with unsuitable profiles. Haphazard screening can only lead you into trouble.
There is now a helpful website available that lists non-paying tenants in Spain: ‘Fichero de Inquilinos Morosos’ (FIM). For a reasonable small fee you will be able to search – in English – if your prospective tenant has actually defaulted previously on a Tenancy Agreement. There are professional defaulting tenants that roam the country in search of their next victim, preying preferably on trustful non-residents. In hard times such as these, many struggling landlords cannot endure the hardship of a financial leach that eagerly exploits Spain’s Tenancy laws’ shortcomings."
It is becoming a bigger problem than previously. I only do holiday rentals but it may help those of you with longer contracts. The laws have been changed recently.
I have lifted this from spanish property insight,,,there is more if interested, I will repost.
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Thank-you, Anis. A useful post.
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The best way to avoid non-paying tenants is not to let your property in the first place.
Let's go Brandon!
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I heard that the tennancy laws in Spain made it possible for tennants to continue living in a property for decades without the landlord being able to increase the rent.
I could be mistaken though
I could be mistaken though
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I'd like to see a copy of the Tenancy Agreement laws - any ideas?
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Ask Ant on page 52 of the current Olive Press has some new info.
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Thanks Barry - just read it. It is more to do with amendments and definitely owner orientated. I would however like to see the complete tenancy agreement. There is plenty there about landlords terminating a contract early but I want to see what grounds a tenant has to do the same.
You can spend, minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened - or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f**k on.
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