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Post by gwen on Apr 29, 2011 10:23:48 GMT 1
I am confused by the law change in 2009. My neighbor bought his house in 2008 as a doo. It was a building site and the Croatian owner ran out of money. There were meant to be 4 apartments. Only one floor had the interior complete and the rest was shell and the top floor was not even built. The papers for the original owner said residential. He has now finished the Apartment house. The area we are in is zoned touristica. It can only be for rental apartments for tourists and for hotels. He needs to get new legal papers for the house. The top apartment he wants for his family and not rent out and the other 3 apartments he wants for tourists.
His architect said that there will be no problem getting new papers as the old papers do not matter as they never were finalized. The papers for usage will be the first issued and will say commerical use.
Will he be able to use the top apartment just for his family?
or will he have to be listed residential/commercial?
Is it true that because he never had final papers at the house, and it is in the tourist zone, that he will have no problems getting usage final papers as Commercial. His architect said it will be 3 months.
I bought an existing tourist house and the papers said commerical. When I am there I have to rent to myself.
thanks for any info. I have read throught the threads here but it is very complicated.
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Post by crojoe on Apr 29, 2011 14:34:20 GMT 1
I am confused by the law change in 2009. My neighbor bought his house in 2008 as a doo. It was a building site and the Croatian owner ran out of money. There were meant to be 4 apartments. Only one floor had the interior complete and the rest was shell and the top floor was not even built. The papers for the original owner said residential. He has now finished the Apartment house. The area we are in is zoned touristica. It can only be for rental apartments for tourists and for hotels. He needs to get new legal papers for the house. The top apartment he wants for his family and not rent out and the other 3 apartments he wants for tourists. His architect said that there will be no problem getting new papers as the old papers do not matter as they never were finalized. The papers for usage will be the first issued and will say commerical use. Will he be able to use the top apartment just for his family? or will he have to be listed residential/commercial? Is it true that because he never had final papers at the house, and it is in the tourist zone, that he will have no problems getting usage final papers as Commercial. His architect said it will be 3 months. I bought an existing tourist house and the papers said commerical. When I am there I have to rent to myself. thanks for any info. I have read throught the threads here but it is very complicated. Are the people in power really that stupid that they can't figure out the laws, just simplify things, stop amending and just pass laws that make sense? How can you decide to change the law and then make no way for those that get trapped to fix their situation? Maybe some taxes need to be paid, but at least give people a chance. Must be some other agenda at work, like knocking of peoples houses by the government or something. |
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Post by gramand on Jul 14, 2011 21:30:15 GMT 1
Ok I will try to make sense of the law as I understand it
1) If your house was built pre 1960 you appear to rule Croatia and have very few rules to obey
2) If your house was built pre 1990 (pre the "troubles") you need a building permit to achieve Categorisation (to be able to let for touristic purposes either as an owner or d.o.o.) part or all of your property.
3) If your house was built post 1990 you need both a building permit and a "usage permit". A usage permit is similar to most of the world's final building inspection sign off documents that says your building is in just about every material and detailed way in conformance with the building permit previously granted. (a simple change of door or window size can prevent this being granted). If you are totally in line with the building permit your problems are over.
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4) A law was passed in 2008 that required you to have a usage permit to obtain categorisation for touristic rental. if your house was built and the building permit was granted post 1990, this was retrospective legislation.
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This opened up a whole new can of worms for me that in 2011 is no neareer to being sorted than when the government imposed it in 2008. All I know for sure is that whatever I spend trying to regularise my situation will never be repaid in rental incomes.
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