When we bought our property on Pico it took over a year from the time we gave them earnest money for the title to be brought current and legal to transfer. Property issues are very complex in the Azores and it would probably be worth your while to retain a property lawyer in Sao Miguel. I'm sure someone on the list who lives there could recommend one for you.
Nancy Jean Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:57:59 -0700 Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Property on the Azores Islands From: [email protected] To: [email protected] My families problem with a property is Sao Miguel is just the opposite. The property is connected to 3 or 4 other homes. They are on the waterfront. The front of the property faces the street and the back is the ocean with no windows to view it! It was my grandfathers since 1920. My grandparents had never been back. After my grandfather died in 1958, my grandmother tried selling it. People live in it....still. My father and his siblings tried selling it 3 times since my grandmother died. No luck. No matter what they do or what papers they provide, they cannot get the powers that be to remove their names from the title. My aunt even went back there last year. She took pictures and talked with the family in the house. They want to live there and stay there but we can't get the title transferred. They tried saying it was a gift. To us the property looks in disrepair and not worth anything. We don't understand the problem with the title. Maybe they have different rules or ways of looking at it. As our family sees it. Since 1920 somebody or many people have had free housing. None of us are bothered by that. We are bothered by the fact that the title is still in our family name. What happens if someone gets hurt or they want to tear it down at the owners expense? Will our family still be held liable after all these years? Or are they not sue happy and land scheme happy like some people in the U.S. ? _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
