Publish non-fiction book or not?

I have a bit of a dilemma. I wrote a non fiction book approx 50K about a dreadful experience I underwent last year, where I bought a new build house in Spain and the council refused to allow me to connect to electricity/water for almost a YEAR. (Due to some corruption/scandal with the developers.)

Anyhow, after a few months this resulted in having the british press at my door and was eventually documented on a TV programme. The producer of the channel told me, "You could write a book about your experience as its pretty shocking," so I got it all down.. but once I did, I prevaricated over publishing it and put it aside, as I felt I would be throwing a really personal diary into the public domain, (as it was quite a painful thing to write even) and I started on fiction instead. However, my friends say I'm daft, that it could be a better way to get a first publishing deal.. what do you guys think?

Thanks for the opinions. I may let it lie for a bit I cant even read it, let alone re-write it as its just far too painful.

Nomad, the marketability of such a book sure is huge and sorry it wasnt a vacation home, I moved here and its of great interest to the thousands of british investors who are buying (or intending to buy) here in the southern coast of Spain. The problem I had is due to a scandal and bad practices, which is recently rocketing throughout the coast of spain. Many spanish property forums are going nuts over it. Many british folk don't realise it.

Thousands of new houses purchased by foreign expats are in danger of being demolished by spanish governments, because they were built by developers who had no legal rights to the land. Its a real bad situation. Not only bad developers here either, the Marbella council itself was recently disbanded and arrested over bribery and corruption.

Fortunately my problem is not one of an illegally built home (or it might have been in the queue for demolition), but that my developer did not acquire sufficient paperwork to allow me to connect to utilities (a legal requirement in spain), my lawyer was corrupt too, he failed to tell me about this missing paperwork when I bought the house, and just wanted to make a sale.

The council didnt care either that we had no water/elec, and they took a year to issue the relevant paperwork so that we could connect to utilities. So when my family moved in the developers told us we could connect up (lies) our only access to water was a tap outside in the street and we collected it with buckets. No heating, no cooking facilities, no light.

We weren't even allowed to get a telephone/internet connection as without the paperwork, my home simply didnt exist in Spain. All this suffering after paying a quarter of a million euros for my home!

I thought by writing my experience it would warn others who most definately will fall into the same boat as I did. My current lawyer said as long as i dont 'name' the developer in a book there is no problem. But as much as people say to me that this experience could be a big seller to the british expatriates here in spain, i just cant go back there in my head right now.