Landaise sale
is proceeding step by step. The current steps:
1) to get past the period of reflexion, which ends on Monday
2) paying the initial deposit - i.e. transferring the money from British savings account to French account, checking it is there, then writing the cheque. This we completed this morning.
Did I tell you that it is considered fraud to write a bouncing cheque in France? Your bank account can be frozen, or you can be banned from holding a bank account for doing so. This means that cheques are trusted here, but it also means that Brits tend to have nightmares about accidentally going overdrawn (which is, of course, forbidden), and that you have to maintain a buffer in your current account - you can't afford to run it down to zero.
1) to get past the period of reflexion, which ends on Monday
2) paying the initial deposit - i.e. transferring the money from British savings account to French account, checking it is there, then writing the cheque. This we completed this morning.
Did I tell you that it is considered fraud to write a bouncing cheque in France? Your bank account can be frozen, or you can be banned from holding a bank account for doing so. This means that cheques are trusted here, but it also means that Brits tend to have nightmares about accidentally going overdrawn (which is, of course, forbidden), and that you have to maintain a buffer in your current account - you can't afford to run it down to zero.
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