Palace Rebuild Drama - Build A New Life in the Country - S03 EP4 - Real Estate 

Well done you 👍

Thanks for the update mate! I’m chuffed to bits! Absolutely brilliant! (Don’t forget the George accent).

Hmm, I wonder if the Spanish did?

Not sure, with all the loans they need to repay...

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but they are no longer the owners. According to the reviews, the hosts are Jan and Christa.

Jszeman Caldwell what happened?

@@barbarakatsivoawere3804 They sold it on to someone else.

@@barbarakatsivoawere3804 her parents health was failing they needed to move back to the UK

@@maclin52 That happens to a lot of people who try to move abroad and usually just a few years after they try to make the move and spend a lot of money doing it! Think carefully. Your children need to be with other children who speak their language!

I say the same every morning after dropping an 8 pounder..

He’s a pain!

That family is, not George. They come totally unprepared and do they even speak the language? I mean really speak the language? I haven't heard a word yet!

The bureaucracy is just as bloody-minded for native Europeans. A French person would have just as much difficulty as a foreigner - and probably less money.

@@SuzanneU You are right except that foreigners have also to fight with a language not their own and a bureaucracy that often in europe defies logic. French people to take an example are brought up with the system. As a Scot having bought and restored two homes in France I know what it's like except that I spoke French which helped. Some countries in Europe work with bribes to the local mayor or council to speed things up or turn a blind eye. The big problem is with listed buildings, instead of thinking that the building is being 'saved' as part of the country's cultural heritage, they impose sometimes crazy conditions. In Scotland a man I know tried for years to buy a listed castle and during the 8 years the authorites took to do the paperwork the ceilings and roof caved in a looters helped themselves. He still bought it of course but now has to spend money he never imagined.

@@TheFiown My experience is in Croatia, where my spouse (native born Croatian) and I and his nephew (Croatian) are in an informal partnership to build a house on the site of an old building. The old building, hotching with history, had fallen down and most of the stone looted, as well as the heavy wood beams. Despite living in Croatia and speaking Croatian as his mother tongue, our nephew had no idea about the regulations! It's taken 4 years for a 6 month project, and we're still not finished. It would help if we were there instead of in the USA because my spouse could take on a lot of the necessary bureaucracy as this often involves personal visits to various offices, getting copies of documents from other offices, and having them notarized in yet other places. I don't think it's an easy job for the people who oversee the refurbishment/restoration of historic buildings. They themselves have intricate layers of bureaucracy to follow. I'm sure they don't like to see the buildings deteriorate or collapse. At the same time, there have to be protections against gung-ho types who could totally destroy the character of the building by imposing ultramodern ultraluxurious ideas upon it. I watched one episode where it was pretty clear that an old wall that should have been retained and restored was assisted to collapse by the new owner, who wanted that space for a master bedroom the size of a small house.

No body forced them to buy the building and to start building without a permit.

The only positive I can draw from this appallingly arrogant comment is huge relief that you didn’t come to Wales. Colonialist.

Yes, enrol them in fast track language classes and try to speak as much Spanish within the home as possible ie, help them learn the language before dumping them in a school where they can’t understand or be understood by anyone.

And what kind of freak parade were they taking their kids to???

It's just some sort of carnival. You've never heard of a parade like that before?

@@carlotta4th Oh, I've heard of them, alright. They're usually called "pride parades," and they're pretty much mobile porn circuses...they're not appropriate for children.

As a language teacher, the reaction of their children is normal! That said, the teacher should pay more attention to what the boys are doing so they don't get lost or bored! Give them small tasks to finish instead of expecting them to follow the lesson. For example, have them translate what is written on the board and assign a clasdmate whose English is rudimentary to help the boys follow the lessons! It takes so little really! After about two months, the kids will be able to speak using short sentences!

Some people think Spain is still an uneducated country, I will say she is in some way is right when she said "oh they say mañana, mañana", the good thing is that 35 years ago it was "come back next week", then it was "the computer line is down", nowadays is more like going to diferent windows or diferent building floors leves if you go to the "Michael Jackson building" in Málaga.

Yes, stupid people!

Do her children go to a American school there? I would say probably. With out taking a language course in school. This is Sad!! My children and grandchildren both speak two or three languages. It is important in this world today. I don't just know words in 3 languages to get me by in a pinch. At 72 it wasn't important to learn a language growing up. It really is now. Blessings🙏🙌

There are a lot of foreigners in the USA who do not speak the language and seem to have no desire to learn. I'd say it's a problem all over.

@@loriminnesota1870 As an ESOL tutor [English for Speakers of Other Languages] in UK and elsewhere, I don't agree that it's a problem all over. Most human beings in the world speak at least 2 languages and think that normal. It's mainly white English speakers, in my experience, who tend to stick to one language and assume that's normal. English schools really struggle getting white native students and their families to accept speaking another language as natural. Likewise, many expat white English speakers don't (as here?) try to listen and learn from the country they're in. They're really missing out! Most immigrants to UK learn the new language and culture pretty quickly, of necessity. If someone doesn't there's usually a reason -- I'm thinking of many female immigrants whose husbands work outside the home and who don't have confidence or access to go to classes or other groups. PS The more languages you know -- including Makaton/BSL, music and maths -- the better your brain works. Trust me, I'm an ESOL tutor.

Very much and you really don’t know what life will throw at you, 18 months ago my mum was a very fit healthy average successful woman and then out of the blue she finds herself in tremendous pain and doctors failing to find the cause, after a time they found she had a growth in her spine, that had been slowly causing tingling and loss of feeling in her legs. They operated and successfully removed the growth but the operation took 3 times as long as the surgeons expected and resulted in major trauma to her spinal cord. She is now a paraplegic from her mid back down with a massive life change. Lol, what I originally intended to write was that I thought they should have pulled the children out of school temporarily and enrolled them in fast tracked language classes.

truth! i can't believe the neighbor's negligence!

On top of that.................windows in every different size instead of standardized. Not clever.

sold up in 2013 moved back to UK

@@Qwijebo I bet the Spanish were relieved. What awful people. I can't help wondering if there were some scams involved. Like the place just collapsed 'on cue?' 400 years and just falls down when they buy it! They didn't seem too bothered about it. if that was my future I would have been a little more put out? Nothing adds up. Money laundering? They had No intention of integrating either. Not people I would trust

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I wondered about money laundering too . They clearly didn't consider it home , lot's of details didn't ring true about a "new life" with absolutely no integration with locals or even learning a basic language.

Because of the CONTRACT you do with the CONSTRUCTOR, that CONTRACT implies certain responsabilities, one is to be responsable of what you do, is suposed that you know what you are doing. In the permits is easy, you can go to the Town Hall and ask for them, you pay the fees and all the other things like, taxes, insurance, police permit (if you have to close the street to unload brikcs, etc), electric & water conpany permits, in case ifit´s a new building or one that has a "problems" like, unpaid bills or it´s been inpose a fine for stealing water or electricity (those are the worst) and meny other things like: + Yes, you have to go to the BANK and then, you go to TAXES and they have to put a seal as you are already paid. - But can´t you look at the computar and find that I already pay it? + No, you have to go directly to the TAXES desk and ask for the seal. Then you find that you have to take to them the BANK RECIPT, so you go a second time. As I said you can go on your own or you can ask the builder who has a wife and she knows all the tricks, specially if is a small town like Velez-Málaga. They probably know the GUY in the Town Hall, or problably they are "family" (a cousin of a cousin, or her mother who was the sister of an unt who married her second cousion by father, after that, they say : " Of cousrse La Juanita, your cousin"). Normally they will do the all building with more or less things you don´t like, not for legal reazons, just because is was cheaper for them and you will never know, but if something goes wrong, know you will find that your builder did not get all the permits, you paid him for this, but you do not have them and there´s when the problems begin and you have to take legal actions, to save your ass and not get fined and responsible for what your builder did o didn´t do. Ignorance of the law does not exempt from compliance. Basicly, is your duty to know the laws.

@@Piijo2K-hf3vk sorry but no. their neighbor collapsed thier wall. they and their builder are responsable to pay for the repairs and the permit. i would venture to guess that thier builder is not really a builder or at least not certified because, coming from a family of builders, we know how to do demoliotion without destroying the neighboring property. Sheer negligence!

@@mellie4174 In Spain is a 10 year warranty, the problem is people just say "Don´t you trust me?, well try another guy it will take another year..." People are "alergic" to contracts, you do a job for me, I sign a contract with all the details, but that cost money and we want to do it cheap.

No, they are correct, I bought an apartment in Spain in 2005 and it was a nightmare, selling it was worse

Exactly, such naivety and arrogance.

Yes, and elderly parents, too. Not exactly unforeseeable complications.

I hope to heavens I'll never make choices requiring that kind of fortitude.

At least they finished before 👑virus

They were never staying. Even for a holiday you learn a basic grasp of lingo . Dodgy scam in there for sure .

Which brickwork are you referring to? Spanish bricks are of different dimensions to UK one's. This may have given you that impression, the brickwork in the arches was only for support, maybe a bit more mortar on the perp ends.

considering this was done in 13yrs ago they might be okay ;)

@@Yoreel1 oh that long? I thought it was from 2018. Ok then ^^

What ? beer ?

What they should have done is told them to get their buts outside and play. Like with actual people! They are in a beautiful country with lovely ppl and beautiful weather!

One son left a recent update- the whole family became fluent!

Most definitely, I have been there too, and melanoma is a very fast cancer.

@@lornahardin4563 I kept thinking this too - it's very irregularly shaped.

it fell off! Dad is fine

They didn't fail you miserable sod . They sold up after 7 years & made an enormous profit 📈

No he has to be negative to build the suspense otherwise there is no excitement! In the same way many reality shows have a time factor built in so that 'will they or won't they' finish before time is called. Its all BS just to sell the program. They think is it is a foregone conclusion then nobody will watch!

Yeah sometimes I want to just throw something like my pillow at the screen when he gets negative and dramatic.

It's about building in drama and raising suspense so you'll root for the new lifers and watch to the end.

No, he's realistic in the face of the sort of mindless optimism these people have.

We’re all just as surprised too.

Society and government is far more secure in Spain and from the little I understand about Turkey but don’t you need links with one of the (probably wrong spelling) Sects to run a business in Turkey ie, have local contacts if not be a local? Also I certainly wouldn’t want to have been in Beirut with the absolute disaster that’s occurred.

@@MaZEEZaM Its just your ignorance. Dont worry.

White Christians buying a property in a Muslim country what could go wrong .

A lot of people would not want to buy or live in Turkey, the UK has a long history of associations with Spain, maybe that is why these folks chose somewhere they are comfortable with. All good luck to them, they well deserve it.

@@derekstocker6661 Plenty of Brits where I am at on the Med. Very cheap and many retirees especially from Scandinavia. A 1000 euros can take you a long way here. Just saying. Whatever they want.

Your caps. lock is on the laft in the middle of your keyboard. You are welcome.

@@jaytay8637 PLEASE DON’T MIND MY CAPS LOCK, I NEVER MIND THE CAPS LOCK OF OTHERS. IT’S DONE BY SOME TO EMPHASIZE NOT TO SHOUT. AN EXCLAMATION POINT IN EVERY SENTENCE END SURELY GIVES THE POINT. SOME FORMAL LETTERS ARE EVEN TYPED IN CAPS LOCK. IN MY CASE USING THE UPPER KEYS, THIS IS JUST ONE PWD HAVING A SIGHT DISORDER THAT I EVEN READ YOUR LEFT AS LAFT.

and it's different for foreigners in UK?

Being a citizen doesn't exactly give you permission to ignore laws, permits, and building codes either.

As an architect with some 30 years working experience I always wonder how these people approach those projects. No money, no experience and an impossibly to accomplish schedule. At least this couple did not live on site 😉

@ Roxanne Sparks. 'These countries' have not invited British immigrants to buy their properties. If you're even half awake through the story, the couple said THEY WANTED to start a business and live in Spain! You're such a hypocrite when we know how difficult building permissions are to come by, in UK, even for an unlisted building( I presume an equivalent terminology like 'listed building' would apply in Spain for an old palace renovation). It just shows how narrow minded people like you, think that other countries should roll the red carpet out for Brits who want to cut corners to obtain planning permission in their country!

What a get off my lawn moment. But guess what--every gen complains about the next one. I'm sure your parents complained about young you too.

@@carlotta4th i dont even understand your statement.

I know ! what a pair of little whingers!

The parents dragged them from their home country and stuck them in a school where they couldn't even understand the damn teacher. Totally selfish of the parents if anything.

Personally, I'm shocked that the parents didn't make sure they had learned some amount of Spanish before plopping them in public school in spain. It's not as though the family were fleeing violence or famine in their home country, lime most immigrants who move to a place where they don't speak the language. Even after moving them to the international school, the mother only seemed concerned that her children ware no longer complaining complaining about going to school, not that they were finally able to actually learn.

Or the bloody virus

Engelhafen Brexit hasn’t happened yet.

He actually got better through the years

Absolutely. "Dad , you need to cut the bread" , I thought I was hearing things ffs

You really liked writing that didn't you ? 4 times 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Maybe leave some in the bottle next time