WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS!

REBECCA SERWOTKA ­ “We sell houses!

It’s what we do, it’s ALL we do!” Your favourite local resale property expert, of Inmobiliaria Real Estate Agents in Ciudad Quesada. Published author of ‘Moving Forward ­ 25 Essential Rules For Buying & Selling Real Estate Without Going Crazy’. Request your FREE copy! Featured on Best Buy Spain. Prestige Award Winner for ‘Real Estate Agency Of The Year 2021/22 & 2022/23’.

Thankfully it doesn’t rain much at all on the Costa Blanca, but when it does, we all know about it!

Did you know, as a homeowner you aren’t allowed to stop the natural flow of rainwater? However, that doesn’t mean you can let it flow onto your neighbour’s property without a care in the world.

As a homeowner, it is your responsibility to make sure the water that flows from your property does not cause damage to that of your neighbour’s. Be aware, as new construction is ongoing, the builders could enforce you to pay for diverting the natural flow of rainwater away from their property and building plots. It also means that you have every right to claim for any stagnant water to be cleaned or removed.

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THE claim that one convicted rapist transitioned to become a woman in a bid to avoid male prison in the UK has reignited the currently ever burning topic of trans rights.

Let’s be clear; the level of respect any one human being is entitled to can never have anything to do with their race, gender, sexuality, or other inherent characteristic. However, the issue of whether trans people can compete in their new gender’s sports’ categories, change in their dressing rooms in shops and serve time in their prisons is one that sees an almighty clash of rights, most often between women and trans people.

While it wouldn’t be right to dismiss the needs of a trans person to be treated with respect in their new gender, it can never be right to make other women fear for their safety. Especially not in surroundings in which control over your own space and safety are at a minimum, like prison.

Whenever issues surrounding equality are brought up for the first time, there is often a period where the courts (and often the general public) take time to work out how this should be balanced. When gay marriage was first introduced, there were multiple Christian businesses who asserted their own rights not to recognise this as a Christian concept.

In short, there’s always a clash when one set of rights ends up conflicting with another.

With tensions getting higher and higher over the trans issue though, and with the safety of both women and trans people being put at risk in the fallout, let’s hope there is a resolution to this one sooner rather than later.