| Renting A House
There are thousands of apartments and villas for renting in Spain. If you are planning to live in Spain it might be a good idea to rent a property in the area where you want to live.
This way you have the opportunity to make a good survey of the area. There are long term (vivienda) and short term contracts (temporada).
The short term contract should state the duration of the contract, specify the amount to be paid, manner of payment and the amount of the deposit, if any.
The long term contract often contains provisions for the tenant to pay community charges, real estate tax (IBI) and even rubbish charges.
Be careful with these charges as they soon add up and could make your renting in Spain more expensive than you counted on.
Strictly legal you will find that these charges are the responsibility of the owner of the property and even after signing the contract you can contest it and you will surely win the case.
Community Regulation
When you have purchased a property, you will become a voting member of a community of co-owners (communidad de propietarios), unless it is a freestanding villa on its own grounds and it is not part of a community.
Just by signing the purchase contract you become a member of this community, even when it has not been mentioned by the vendor.
The Spanish Law of Horizontal Properties (Ley de Propiedad Horizontal), states that any cluster of attached houses or building of apartments, must have such a legal body to control its management.
Many urbanizations of detached villas have also used these facilities to control the upkeep of their properties, and the payments of the taxes.
These bodies have the right to put a lien on your property, if you do not keep up your payments to the community.
The statutes will state exactly what your percentage of the community is depending on the size of your house or flat (cuota de participacion).
If, like many owners of holiday properties in Spain, you are not in Spain when there is an annual meeting held you can appoint a proxy to vote for you. This is called a “poder”, which is the same as a power of attorney.
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