Where to begin...? At the beginning I suppose;
After we had bought the land and Induni had (finally) started to build the house - they suddenly called a meeting of all the future house owners. So we all turned up at a room and Induni explained with the help of slides and diagrams that they had 'found' an enormous rainwater retention tank which they did not know about.
They then announced that before work could continue it would have to be moved....and....
...wait for it....
it was going to cost 90'000.- CHF !!!
"Phew we said that's a lot of money, why are you telling us this?" we asked
Ha Ha because they wanted us to pay for it!!!
"Excuse us" we said "but we have seen the plans of the site before we bought it and this tank/pipe is marked on it" It was probably even visible from Google Earth. "So you included it in your costs to build the house which we have already arranged to pay
August 13, 2010
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