Income property in the Algarve

Oh it’s not fun if you don’t spend several months on legal stuff, like I have been doing.😂

I think it's just amusing because dealing with bureaucracy is a universal problem, applies to many situations and countries.

difference in Portugal with bureaucracy is that they are there to stop you (as the film shows) 

in the uk the bureaucrats are there to serve and help you.  As one Goan Portuguese speaking man once remarked that when he worked for the uk civil service years ago  any letter were always signed "your obedient servant" 

in Portugal he remarked the civil service are not obedient nor are they servants.

in truth its a clever political system that everyone is most of the time "illegal" and have to get their bits of paper signed or stamped by camara staff who are there to protect their own jobs

it was said that in the USSR people spent half their working time in line for food, methinks that in portugal people spend half their working lives in line for some licence or whatever

Does anyone know, if you are doing holiday rentals on the AL licence, is their a maximum time a person can stay for it to be deemed a holiday let? For example, if I let my place for 6 months, would that not be legal under their terms and would be deemed a normal house let?

Yes the builder who is doing work for me says 'they'll wreck everything'. 😀 Actually I have rented out property before but not as holiday lets and I found that yes, you have to kind of let go of the fact that things get broken and look at the bigger picture. 
I certainly haven’t ever had to deal with people trying to make fictional complaints for money!