Help and advice needed - Page 2

Patrick8 wrote on Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:39am:

About ten years ago, a bar in La Cala had a similar problem, the bar owners son carried on putting  money to his father's sccount to pay the electric bill, when he took over the bar from his very elderly father, mainly because of the problem of trying to change the account for the bar into h...

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...is own name...... his father passed away, the bank stopped paying the power company and the electric was cut off.

Now you would think it would be quite simple to simply change the direct debits and/or the account to the sons name?....

Now comes the crazy but TRUE account of what the bank wanted in order to do so?

The bank wanted the deceased father to visit the bank and authorise the changeover of the account!!

When the son AGAIN explained he was DEAD the person on the counter said it does not matter... he still has to come in and authorise!

The son obviously thought there was a communication/language problem and asked myself and another fairly decent Spanish speaking person to accompany him to the bank to maybe help get the message across.... so we did.

The person on the counter, and the manager who was requested to attend, unbelievably told us the exact same as the son was told about an hour earlier!

I don't really expect you readers to believe this, and I would not, if this was told to me, but I witnessed this first hand and of course I know it is true...and even I sometimes wonder if I dreamt it all, but knowing how ridiculous things can be with Spanish red tape, and the Spanish refusal to rectify something simple I think other Brits in Spain probably have experienced crazy things like this as well?

Sadly the lawyers you pay, are as useless as the people you try to solve a simple problem with at first....

Patrick8 wrote on Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:53am:

The outcome was closed for about 4 weeks, and lots of hoops to jump through at a total cist of over 7000 euros, to have the premises checked and some updating of the electrics.... A joke!