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. ?
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Eugenia <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with everyone's comment. > > I have a cousin, that asked me to research her Grandmother's land in > Pico. Her Grandmother died over 7 years ago. At the time when her > grandmother died my cousin got a lawyer to look into the property and > was told that the property was worthless. > > When she asked me to look into the property a few years ago. The > people named on the Title or to take care of the property were all > dead. I asked a surviving sister of the brother who was one of them > to take care of property about the property. She is old and could not > remember. > > It is important to put everything in WRITING. And have in WRITING A > contingent, when the person named is dead what happen to the property > etc. > > Do not assume that the land or money is going to be there waiting for > you to claim it. > > I have a question?? > I thought a few years ago that land that was abandon for a certain > amount of time that the Portuguese Government took the land and gave > it or sold it. Is this true? > > Eugenia > [email protected] > > > > -- Hugs and Blessings from Karen (Medeiros) Huffman in Paso Robles, CA USA Searching for Medeiros and Cabral in Sao Miguel, Santos, Silva and Costa in Terceira Acores. Searching for Anderson and Swanson in Sweden and Schaeffer and Schommer in Germany. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
