A devotee from Vitoria bequeathed a building on the city’s golden mile to the City Council in exchange for 108 annual prayers in his memory. However, one of his tenants refuses to leave his apartment because he claims that it is the last will of Mrs. Virginia. It is a stately building with eight apartments that has not passed the corresponding technical inspections for five years in one of the most traditional streets of Vitoria.
The City Council, heir to the property, has decided to sell it but one of its tenants has blocked the operation by dusting off the will of Eulalia Virginia Sáenz de Ormijana Martínez. The devout Vitoria died in 1978 without issue and he ceded it to the consistory in exchange for guaranteeing himself a good number of masses for his soul until eternity. Specifically 108 prayers a year that would guarantee his eternal rest.
The wayward neighbor assures that the institution has not complied with its obligations as heir and therefore the ownership of the building is invalid.
the only tenant
The 53-year-old inherited the lease from his parents. An agreement that half a century later, the Consistory has considered settled. They assure from the institution that the allegations are “unfounded” and that “the masses that Mrs. Virginia requested in the will they were made between 1980 and 1985“.
He and two other owner families reside in the building and have reached an agreement with the City Council for them to continue maintaining ownership of your flats after the sale.
The real estate operation will mean an injection of liquidity in the municipal coffers of about 670.000 eurosnot including taxes.
After receiving the municipal notification, the rebellious tenant has ten days to leave the third left of Florida 28. He assures that “if he gets a legal defense, he will fight in court” with the 108 masses of Mrs. Virginia’s will in hand.
