Sorry, I just don't know the answer to your other question, if indeed it was a question rather than just a comment about the Portuguese beauracrats :wink:[/quote] The second question was not meant to be rhetorical! The comments about the professionals are just my usual side-swipe against incompetent...

simply stated but methinks not a simple job at all I think I understand the process, simple on the face of it, but of course when you actually try to do it, unbelievably difficult. Madre Dios. But my questions are: 1. Can the law actually be enforced for the thousands of individual villas, apartmen...

Last year I bought a small guest house (5 rooms) and am now advised that the rooms need to be licensed. OK, the requirements seemed to be straight-forward;a floor plan, an area plan, an inspection and a license. Pay the fee. The trouble is that as the building was put up 20 years ago before the law,...