Let me start by apologising, it's been over a year since I've last posted and lot's of things have changed.
As many of you know, last year I put an offer in on a town house in France. This was accepted and I was assured everything would go through quickly. How wrong that was!!
It's been nearly a year and after eventually losing patience and threatening to pull out of the sale, I have received a completion date of this Wednesday when the keys will finally be mine.
We returned from France a week ago and while we were there I said enough was enough. The notaire has had my money since July and they were still waiting on a signature. It has been made more complicated as there were 8 people selling the property.
As many of you know my plans for the property were to originally set up a tearoom on the ground floor and let a couple of bedrooms out. I had also planned to run classes for paying guests and locals. This could still be the case but won't be able to happen straight away. There is an absolute tonne of work needing done to the property before guests can stay... new roof, new electrics...new bathrooms...new kitchen etc.etc.
I have found out that the ground floor of the house used to be a shop when the house was built in 1800.
I do understand that this is taking a big leap of faith as during the summer months will be fine with tourists etc. but other times of the year I could struggle with just the shop, so an online shop will also be needed and I can still run classes for locals and visitors to the town.
Anyways, I have a lot to think about but I promise to be back here at least once a week keeping you all updated.
Hugs
Sacha
xx
