He Bought an Apartment in Spain and Experienced "Occupa shock." "I Broke Out in a Cold sweat."

forbes.pl

Factuality

Ownership

I immediately suspected they were "ocupas," or illegal occupants. Because who else would change my lock? My first reaction was to immediately contact the police to report the matter. But in the meantime, I started wondering what to tell them and how this would play out. Because Spain has such strange laws," says Piotr Mazur, a consultant at the American IT corporation Salesforce, who bought a house and apartment in the Canary Islands.