My wife and I just moved to an apartment in Sosua owned by some family of hers. Since there is no power back up, I installed an inverter and I wanted to attach the batteries on the outside of the apartment wall in a rack next to our balcony- we are staying on the 2nd floor, so it could not be a problem to anyone. But I was wrong about that!
The wall is facing a courtyard belonging to Hotel Europa and I was told in at least three different languages by a woman, who was threatening with police and fiscal, that I could not attach anything to that wall. The woman was very excited about this and I chose not to get into an argument, but simply buy for 1.000 pesos more cable and place the batteries on our balcony.
We called a plumber the next day, because the water to our apartment was shut off. I could not believe it, but this German woman shut us off as a punishment for thinking that we could do what is normal with the batteries on a wall that does not even belong to her. She did have an excuse about a leak, but I don't buy that.
Normally I recommended Hotel Europa to arriving tourists, but that won't happen again.
I doubt that she gets message, but this post is for telling her and others in similar jobs, that it pays off to treat other people friendly.
The wall is facing a courtyard belonging to Hotel Europa and I was told in at least three different languages by a woman, who was threatening with police and fiscal, that I could not attach anything to that wall. The woman was very excited about this and I chose not to get into an argument, but simply buy for 1.000 pesos more cable and place the batteries on our balcony.
We called a plumber the next day, because the water to our apartment was shut off. I could not believe it, but this German woman shut us off as a punishment for thinking that we could do what is normal with the batteries on a wall that does not even belong to her. She did have an excuse about a leak, but I don't buy that.
Normally I recommended Hotel Europa to arriving tourists, but that won't happen again.
I doubt that she gets message, but this post is for telling her and others in similar jobs, that it pays off to treat other people friendly.