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Recently bought a holiday apartment

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:17pm
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Roy56

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Hi

We've recently taken the plunge and bought a holiday home in Molino Blanco 

We've been a few times, staying there or in azul beach, love the area, the beach and boardwalks, the national parks

Apartment is 25 years old so due a lot of refurbishment, looking at going with Makinghomes.co, Jason and Sergio seemed to understand our requirements and even gave us a few suggestions to consider 

Also want to buy electrical and furniture, have spent time searching the forum, so much useful information on it

Need interenet as well, most seem to recommend Venga 

I've recently received my uk retirement pension but Elena is still working 

Hopefully we can get recommendations,  we like eating out with entertainment like live music, especially Spanish

Who knows, could possibly become a resident sometime in the future but currently restricted by the 90 in 180 rule

Anyway, hi to everyone and thanks to all those who have made useful recommendations 

Roy

elinspain

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:38pm

elinspain

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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:38pm

Hello Roy

 Welcome to the forum & to Molino Blanco.  It's a lovely area and I live very close , so I know it very well. Some of my family have stayed in those apts in MB close to those little walkways that you can cut through to the beach. 

 There is are  2 good supermarket closeby,, 2 banks, several nice restaurants, cafes etc 

 If I can help with anything please let me know.

 Cheers

 Elinspain

Roy56

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:47pm

Roy56

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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:47pm

Thanks Elinspain

Yes it is a lovely walk to the beach nice path past the tennis courts and the Villas and we have found there to be lots of nice restaurants, having a fairly big supermarket nearby is very useful as well

TriciaC

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:31am

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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:31am

Roy56 wrote on Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:17pm:

Hi

We've recently taken the plunge and bought a holiday home in Molino Blanco 

We've been a few times, staying there or in azul beach, love the area, the beach and boardwalks, the national parks

Apartment is 25 years old so due a lot of refurbishment, looking at going with Makinghomes.co, Jason and Sergio seemed to understand our requirements and even gave us a few suggestions to consider 

Also want to buy electrical and furniture, have spent time searching the forum, so much useful information on it

Need interenet as well, most seem to recommend Venga 

I've recently received my uk retirement pension but Elena is still working 

Hopefully we can get recommendations,  we like eating out with entertainment like live music, especially Spanish

Who knows, could possibly become a resident sometime in the future but currently restricted by the 90 in 180 rule

Anyway, hi to everyone and thanks to all those who have made useful recommendations 

Roy

Hi Roy56 Highly recommend Making homes.co used Jason ect to fix our roof after our wee bungalows roof leaked in the bad storm in 2019 they went over and above the work and even painted inside our bungalow at a very cheap price.Good luck with your new home.

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Roy56

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:30pm

Roy56

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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:30pm

Thanks so much for this recommendation TriciaC.

We were very impressed by Jason and Sergio, they really seemed to understand what we wanted and their quotation included the reassuring words " We finish on time and on budget"

They also gave us lots of useful advice so we have now agreed to proceed with them for our refurbishment.

Will give feedback on progress when they start next month 

Also booked Vega to install fibre and Climatop to supply Nippon conditioner both this week following recommendations on the forum

And been to Luzete and bought a kitchen light and looking at their modern ceiling fan lights which we may get as well

Had a very productive 24 hours!

Roy56

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:58pm

Roy56

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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:58pm

Roy56 wrote on Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:30pm:

Thanks so much for this recommendation TriciaC.

We were very impressed by Jason and Sergio, they really seemed to understand what we wanted and their quotation included the reassuring words " We finish on time and on budget"

They also gave us lots of useful advice so we have now agreed to proceed with them for our refurbishment.

Will give feedback on progress when they start next month 

Also booked Vega to install fibre and Climatop to supply Nippon conditioner both this week following recommendations on the forum

And been to Luzete and bought a kitchen light and looking at their modern ceiling fan lights which we may get as well

Had a very productive 24 hours!

Making homes have now finished refurbishment of our apartment. Can really recommend them for building work, tiling, plastering, sanding and painting. The building work including removing some of a partition to open up our newly designed kitchen which they also installed, as well as covering a balcony.

They communicated well with photos and were willing to make adjustments etc to suit our requirements, their price was competitive.

Thanks Sergio, Victor and Jason

TonySmith

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:43am

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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:43am

Local shopping centre, with good restaurants and good shop for internet/TV

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Polly16

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:59pm

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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:59pm

Roy56 wrote on Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:58pm:

Making homes have now finished refurbishment of our apartment. Can really recommend them for building work, tiling, plastering, sanding and painting. The building work including removing some of a partition to open up our newly designed kitchen which they also installed, as well as covering a bal...

...cony.

They communicated well with photos and were willing to make adjustments etc to suit our requirements, their price was competitive.

Thanks Sergio, Victor and Jason

Hi, I'm looking for someone to do internal work to my flat so thanks for the recommend. Can I ask, were they reasonably priced? And also, did they obtain the town hall licence or is this something you had to do yourself? Hope you've enjoyed using your holiday home this year (despite the heat). Thanks.

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