Hacienda Riquelme Owners 2015 January Resort Newsletter

Hacienda Riquelme Owners  2015 January Resort Newsletter               

Welcome to this months Hacienda Riquelme Resort-wide Owners newsletter.

We aim to continue to show the true state of affairs at the resort rather the ever positive gloss-over comments that come from the Committee.

This month we focus on costs and the average wage of workers!

Spain increases minimum wage

The Spanish government on Boxing Day approved a EU3 increase to the minimum wage.
PM Mariano Rajoy announced the measure following a Cabinet meeting, confirming that the minimum monthly wage now stands at EU648.60.  The major trade unions immediately branded the gesture "insufficient" considering the increase in the cost of living over recent years.

Rajoy himself called the increase "modest", but insisted that it will benefit those already on the wage, as the increase was frozen in 2012, and only came to 0.6% last year. The trade unions have demanded a 12.5% increase for 2015, which would bring the minimum wage to EU725, to be followed by an increase of 10.2% in 2016, which would bring the minimum wage to 2016 in order to address the escalating cost of living in Spain over recent years.
Source: http://www.tumbit.com/news/articles/9849-spain-increases-minimum-wage.html

50% of Spain's workers earn under EU1,000 per month

 

Following 5 years of economic crisis, a long recession and austerity policies, almost 50% of Spanish workers earned less than EU1,000 per month while one-third did not even reach the minimum salary of EU645, according to data published by the tax revenue agency, based on tax returns presented last year.

Out of 16.6 million employed last year, 7.7 million had a salary of less than EU1,000, while 34% did not make the minimum salary.

The data included, among others, workers with short-term and part time contracts, almost all youths. In particular, 86% of 39,168 under-18 workers earned less than the minimum salary; while over 1.1 million workers aged 18 to 25, or 74.4% of the total, made less than EU645 a month, or the minimum salary.

According to the data, 16.7 million Spanish workers in 2013 remained below that threshold, out of 26.3 million salaried workers.
Recently, the European Commission slammed salary cuts in Spain following the economic crisis as ''slow, ineffective and unjust'', given that they mostly affected workers with short-term contracts and not workers with open-ended contracts.Source: http://www.tumbit.com/news/articles/9691-50-percent-of-spains-workers-earn-under-eu1000-per-month.html

 

 

HRGR Gardening Costs
Taking into account that the gardeners are a low paid role and with an average of 10 gardeners engaged at HRGR then assuming if they were paid the minimum EU 857 per month then the labour costs of the contract would be 8,570 per month.

This equates to 103,000 euros per year.

So why are we paying 340,000 euros per year?

Of course there are overheads, management costs and third party profit but at what level! Or looking at this another way 340,000 divided by the minimum wage of 857 euros equates to 393 gardeners - don't think we employ anywhere near that number!


Focus, Focus, Focus
As usual owners receive have countless WI Committee emails about policies on dogs, cats, and trees to name a few recent communications.

The hard stuff like driving down costs and what is actually happening on the debtors now reaching 2 million euros, fails to appear, time and time again!

It is as if they cannot see the wood from the trees!

     

Time to move on......
Time for change.....
Time for Action!

Warm regards

HRGR Owners and Sub Community Presidents that care!

 

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Hacienda Riquelme Owners 2014 December Resort Newsletter

Hacienda Riquelme Owners  2014 December Resort Newsletter               

Welcome to this months Hacienda Riquelme Resort-wide Owners newsletter.

We aim to continue to show the true state of affairs at the resort rather the ever positive gloss-over comments that come from the Committee.

This month we are asking for owners to participate in the fourth year of our owners survey:

Owners Survey


This years survey can be completed by clicking here

Results to date:
Thank you to all owners that have completed the survey to-date, the response rate has been overwhelming! The summary findings are:

Q1: Do you believe the Communities Fees that you pay are at the right level?


Q2: Are you willing to pay an extra 30% next year in increased Community Fees?



Q3: Should the Resortalia administration contract be retendered?



Q4: Do you believe the level of security is at the right level?



Q5: Should the buildings be cleaned ............



Q6: Should the Resort President be elected by..........



Q7: Should the 2015 budgets include provision for repainting of the resort buildings?

Q8: Should there be only One AGM for all owners next March to attend?



Q9: Should all material contracts include defined Service Levels of the service to be performed?



Q10: Do you believe the Committee are delivering services at the optimuim level and price?

Overall, the committee has a long way to go to meet owners expectations!

Time to move on......
Time for change.....
Time for Action!

Warm regards

HRGR Owners and Sub Community Presidents that care!

 

Comments:

We always welcome comments and feedback, good or bad, from all owners, the committee or "committee member but personal views expressed only" .............

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Please note:

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2014 HRGR Owners Survey

Now in its 4th year, this years survey can be completed by clicking HERE 

Hacienda Riquelme Owners November 2014 Newsletter

Hacienda Riquelme Owners  2014 November Resort Newsletter                   

Welcome to this months Hacienda Riquelme Resort-wide Owners newsletter.

We aim to continue to show the true state of affairs at the resort rather the ever positive gloss-over comments that come from the Committee.

We start this month on what was the workers compound that we are now renaming as the Rubbish Dump

Please welcome all owners and holiday makers that spend their holidays looking out to these views:                                  

Rubbish Compound










Roads
The state of the roads continue to fall into disrepair and can only get worse with the months ahead:

Click movie to see more: IMG_0403.MOV

 




Swimming pools
Following this years Chemicals scare, we are pleased at last that the PH levels are being taken and recorded for each swimming pool. We will continue to take independent PH readings as and when required.


Gardens
Last months gardeners report stated "Many owners have taken the opportunity to comment & the feedback we have received, without exception, has all been positive.  Owners have told us: the resort looks fantastic, changes this year have been very positive,the grass looks really green and healthy, from the plants in the central reservation to the roundabouts the whole resort looks great and the resort just gets better and better every time we visit. Our gardens are fast becoming the envy of owners from other resorts & from the comments received this appears to be one of the most successful projects undertaken at HR. "

Well maybe someone should open their eyes and walk around the resort:

They cannot even get the grass to grow over the last 6 years!

Or even weed the paths!

Playgrounds
Continued eyesores and accidents awaiting to happen:

Would you want your 3 year old child playing here?

New Phase President
Ian Graham, President of Romero 5, has been elected as the new Phase 7 President. This is what he said last time:

" When I was elected as Phase 7 President, it was not a role that I sought; Unfortunately, personal circumstances meant I was unable to devote the time to the role that I would have liked, and now that I have more time, I no longer have the inclination to continue having become frustrated by the way that the committee conducts its business." January 2013

"When I became phase president, I did so not for any desire to take on the role but because no one else came forward.  Nevertheless, one of the things I had hoped could be achieved was that a single, common, means of communication could be implemented so that all owners on the resort received the same information, at the same time. To some extent that was progressed at the first meeting I attended when it was agreed that the forum would not be used as a means of general communication when Ron Locke offered to extend the circulation of his phase communications to all owners.  That was to be supplemented by president’s newsletters and the circulation of the points agreed at the phase presidents’ meetings.  Unfortunately, this has not been followed and it seems that additional communications are being sent to selected  parties." October 2012

Debts


Only 1,015 euros of the 2008 debt were collected in the first 9 months of 2014!
At this rate it will take the next 15 years just to clear the 2008 debt never mind the other 1.4 million euros of debts!

........And they think they are in control!


Summary
As we prepare to launch next months yearly owners survey, we are continually amazed at the lack of open and honest transparency and communications.

The "gloss over" views of the Committee continue to spill out as the "dog eat dog" culture of HRGR drives on.

As for the Resort President ""By now you will probably have heard that I have taken over as Resort President.  I never intended to ever do the role but have been persuaded to change my mind and have agreed to do it until the next AGM. This will provide continuity and allow time for someone else to be identified in time to take over at the next AGM." 

 

If the Committee is doing is dong such a great job, then why are there so many key problems across the resort. Where is the detailed case summary information of which 1.2 million debtors are in court and the stages of the court proceedings?

Where is the information of how many debtors are untraceable, the key issue as confirmed by the previous resort president?

If owners then question the Committee on these matters then they classed by the Committee as trouble makers and are then named and shamed amongst all the fellow owners.
 

And finally as the Committee represents all owners interests then they clearly need to be aware that fundamental issues will be raised as and when required. If the heat becomes to hot in the kitchen then they can always stand aside, as the issues, and owners with these issues, will not go away. 

The committee may change overtime however we will not be it 5, 10, 15 years or whatever we will still be around to show the true Hacienda Riquelme Culture and spirit.

Time to move on......

Time for change.....

Time for Action!

Warm regards

HRGR Owners and Sub Community Presidents that care!

 

Comments:

We always welcome comments and feedback, good or bad, from all owners, the committee or "committee member but personal views expressed only" .............

 

Please note:

Copyright protected. Website created to promote free interchange of information, opinions and suggestions about our resort. The content of the site do not necessary reflect the opinions of the site owners. Please see our Legal page for full details on using this site.

E-mail and this website is an informal method of communication and is subject to possible data corruption, either accidentally or on purpose. We are unable to exercise control over the content of information contained in transmissions made via the Internet. For these reasons it will normally be inappropriate to rely on information contained in transmissions made via the Internet without obtaining written confirmation of