Well, talk about a change of fortunes.
Not only have I got my job - which I will be starting tomorrow (phew!), but we also have eight houses to look at when we go to France next month over the Easter break.
But it doesn't end there, oh no.
Not to put too much stock in this as we haven't see it in the flesh, so to speak, but one of the houses we've been given details of just outside of Domfront, is a four bed detached house with a shop and an apartment over the garage. It's not the prettiest we're going to see, but it's been reduced in price to the degree that we would be absolutely stupid not to look at before saying, "Nah, it's too big."
So in light of the following:
- The price is within budget including all fees and taxes
- We have first refusal
- There are others hoping to view the house in the next couple of weeks
We're off on Friday night to go look at it Saturday. The rental potential alone for the apartment makes it too good an offer not to sport the time and money to go see.
You never know, we may own a place in France before the end of next week.
Wouldn't that be something?
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Best of luck, Nick!
Sometimes it feels as if you're just "falling in" to things, doesn't it? I hope everything works out!
Wren
Thanks, Wren
I have to agree.
There have been some notable times in our recent past where it's felt just like that. Our move down here to Dorset eleven years ago began the same way and since then, we've had a number of these 'roller-coaster' runs. Anyway, I mustn't get over excited as we may turn this house down...
I don't just look it, I'm totally keeping my fingers crossed
And they're off...
Hope you enjoy France
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Thanks, Stan
Oh, I think that's a gimme :)
Whether this is the trip that nets us a house though, remains to be seen
I don't just look it, I'm totally a Francophile
It's nice to see
Karma actually giving instead of taking for a change. You deserve some good times now after hanging in there so hard. Enjoy it. Hey once you're all set up and acclimated maybe a nice story set in France.
Bailey Summers
Story set in France
The little grey cells are already considering it
I don't just look it, I'm totally gonna think of something
I hope you find
what you're looking for, even if it isn't this time around.
Good luck,
Angharad
Angharad
So do we, Ang. So do we
Fact is, we're well aware that what you see in pictures is not necessarily what you meet when you get there. I cite the first house we visited in Ruffec, which showed pictures of the lounge, but at an angle to miss out the lavatory the previous owner had installed - and not in a stall either...
I don't just look it, I'm totally p with these devious French immobilier :)
At least
you could have continued watching the telly when you went to the loo. (Don't the Frogs have building regulations?).
Angharad
Angharad
Not so's you'd notice Angie.
You wanna' see some of the stuff that gets past the inspectors, (That's if you can even find an inspector.)
It seems the best excuse for getting stuff through is to claim some sort of 'Arty-farty avant guard thing and hey presto!
'Yes Minister's' got nothing on French building and planning regs.
We gave France a miss after the crazy situation where a house can have a dozen different part owners in the same family. We ended up buying a place in Brno in the Czech republic. Laws are far more stringent and logical over there. (And the flights are cheaper.)
Bev.
Growing old disgracefully.
It's not the French
...you need to worry about.
It's the English numbnuts who thinks that by putting a screwdriver in his back pocket and driving a white van, he's become a renovator.
Fortunately, none of the places we're going to see have been touched by English DIY-ers (Destroy It Yourself)
Sadly, it does seem apparent that you can't prevent the French from wallpapering everything, but it's nothing a scraper and a pot of paint won't cure.
I don't just look it, I'm totally able to lean on a shovel and call myself a builder
Telly?
Wouldn't that make it smellyvision?
I don't just look it, I'm totally capable of lavatorial humour