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Hi I rent my property through VRBO in Spain. It’s a VTAR rural villa. I pay tax on rentals and am registered as VTAR. I have just received an email from VRBO in Spanish Regarding new tax requirements in Spain. It seems to run to hundreds of pages. Does anybody have a brief synopsis of what might be ...

Can anyone recommend good insurer for holiday property in Spain. We rent the property out over summer so must cover this also.

We were fully booked for season. Then covid struck. A couple of brave returners managed to come. Many have now moved to next year. Once the calendar opened up again I was inundated with Requests from France and Spain. I was getting so many enquiries I decided to raise my prices. I quickly filled al ...

Anyone know if insurance exists for loss of rental should for example travel to Spain becomes off limits due to coronavirus.
I know travel disruption insurance exists for travellers.

I have just spoken to my designated point of contact at home away regarding this new payment system. As I currently receive advance payments from Yapstone he assured me I will be eligible for advanced payments once I sign up to home away payments. I have done so and the email received confirms this....

I have been notified by Home Away about the new requirements regarding providing tax information in Spain. I currently have a licence and pay my rental tax for each period as required, I also pay my non resident tax. Just wondering what the tax implications will be for UK citizens after Brexit. Curr...

I have been notified by Home Away about the new requirements regarding providing tax information in Spain. I currently have a licence and pay my rental tax for each period as required and my non resident tax. Just wondering what the tax implications will be for UK citizens after Brexit. Currently we...

I am in the Axarquia region of Andalucia. Don't think Terracing would be possible. Mixture of loose slatey rock and soil. Would really like some plants that spread quickly to hold the ground and have a good root system I have heard that the vetiver grass works well although they do appear to be mixe...

Does anyone have any tips on planting for very banks? We have any area (above our pool !!!!). Very steep sunny bank that we need more planting on to prevent erosion. Can anyone suggest suitable plants. We have read about Vetiver grass but have not been able to get first hand info about maintaining i...

We definitely have no problem with pool or leaks. We've installed two cut off valves. Our usage now seems normal but we suspect once the weather hots up and watering starts again we might see things change We are monitoring heavily now and even when we are not there have a kind neighbour who is taki...

We had new water meter fitted and tested for leaks everywhere by fitting new isolation valves and all is ok. We know we definitely dont have a leak. We were there ourselves over Christmas and last week and no water usage recorded during empty period. There is a spanish property on the land below us ...

Im interested in average water usage whilst renting our villa. 3 bed two bath. We rented last year for first time and were shocked to receive a bill showing 141m3 water used in a quarter. In some areas this may be ok as water is cheap. Ours is not anything over 41m3 costs 4.6 euros per m3 so our bil...

Ok we amended the name of our property and our licence has now been granted It does appear many people are not notified correctly. It appears Junta are not using the correspondence address on the Declaracion forms. I do have an email for someone at the Junta who does reply and will let you know stat...

No it wasn't Possible to avoid DAFO. The house was not fully legal either but as the house had been there over 10 years it was approved. However they use satellite photos and picked up in fact that pergola was a recent addition so this was disallowed.

We had to get a Dafo It's nit an easy process. There was an illegal pergola and thus had to come down and cannot be put up. So if there's illegal extension it will be a problem. Good luck