Toolshed beware!

June 4, 2009 • Malaga • 2 Comments

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58-cover Agent stops selling conman’s home and alters descriptions after pressure from Olive Press forum

A LEADING estate agent has made a series of changes to his website, after coming under pressure on the Olive Press´s online forum.

Hans Kürpick, of agency Fincabonela will now only list ‘casas de apero’ for sale with the words ‘tool shed’ clearly added in English.

The German agent, based in Casarabonela, has also stopped marketing the property of conman Gary Shenton, following our front page story on the builder a fortnight ago (Find Him, issue 58).

Vigorous

After a vigorous online debate, Hans has made the changes to his website. “To all ads for casas de apero, I have added the words ‘tool shed’ in English,” he wrote.

The move came after one reader dubbed the Sierra de las Nieves town as the ‘tool shed capital’ of Malaga.

In reference to our series of articles about people being fined for living in tool sheds, Dan Sweeney, who also lives in Casarabonela, wrote that “lawyers, mayors and estate agents are all in it for a quick buck knowing full well that the Spanish legal system will probably let them get away with it.”

It is not illegal to build a tool shed, but many people live in them as normal houses, which is illegal.

The authorities have knowingly given out licences for such homes and the Junta has generally turned a blind eye.

Thousands of homes with tool shed licences have gone up around Andalucia, with particular concentrations in parts of the Axarquia, Chiclana, Casarabonela and Tollox.

Wrote Sweeney: “Until the Junta takes a more pro-active role and some mayors are put behind bars nothing is going to improve.”

Hans Kürpick however, is in total agreement. “I have already made written complaints to the town hall, making them aware that the casas de aperos are destroying our beautiful countryside,” he said.

The 28-comment stream can be read at http://www.theolivepress.es/2009/04/29/digging-for-victory/

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June 5th, 2009 12:29 am

Que pague el dinero que debe en Casarabonela España,
Saludos
Gary cuando quieras me haces la transferencia bancaria estoy esperando que me pagues saludo desde España.

Christine Ferguson

September 2nd, 2009 11:59 am

These collaborating fraudsters should be arrested immediately. Who talks about the cost of the medical, social and psychological suffering of the casualties of these urbanistic abuses?

The absurdly inappropriate fines, (for others’s frauds) the loss of income trying to fight their corner and fear of losing everything day after day – health home, income.
Affected individuals must join up and protest in the way that the Administartion understands. The Brits generally are ‘not angry enough’. Let our men be men and not sheep any more. Join or start a local representative group and sign into the National Federation of Anti- Abuse groups right across the costas when it launches in October of this year. Numbers, action, visual campaigns are what Andalucia needs. Emergency powers, denuncias, citizens’ arrests.
This e mail will link you to a local group, help you to create a new one and connect you to the National Federation in a few weeks’ time. Remember Spain takes presidency of the European Union in a few months’ time. Is it morally right to do this when it is not addressing its own crititical issues?

Tel 6201028 for info.

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