Report on the house visit
The house above the garage.
House OK. Three bedrooms. Lounge with windows both ends for cooling breezes. Rooms big enough, though no study/office. TV aerial point in every room! Oil central heating, with another baffling boiler.
Downstairs there's one 'through' garage with doors both ends, and then another massive garage with a pit and a high ceiling and two roll-over doors. This looks like it's been used commercially for servicing cars. It could easily become a church room or meeting room because the ceiling is pretty high (3 metres?)
EXCEPT:
It's on a very busy road, just between a roundabout and the TGV railway line, and parking will be limited.
The house and its garden are being sold in three lots -
1) front garden to build a "maison de ville",
2) house and pool
3) rear garden for another couple of houses.
Also the wiring in the house is idiosyncratic, to say the least. It looks to me like they have rewired it and saved money by removing most of the lights, etc, sticking ceiling roses over the holes, but not actually removing the switches which once operated the lights. There's a jumble of new sockets and old sockets. Do they all work? Who knows!
Hmmm. I think it's time to talk to some French friends about this.
It is by far the nearest house to the schools we have seen. It needs the stucco filling and painting outside and it is very high and very big. It would take me AGES or cost a fortune. It does have a pool, though. And once they have sold off the land front and rear very little else by way of garden, so no mowing!
We end up seeing these houses which are slightly odd or have problems because we are trying to buy a cheap house in an expensive area! It's a question of weighing up the pros and cons.
I did have a chat with the guy about the Landaise. He says that the house hasn't sold because people are put off by the two houses that will be built in front of it.
House OK. Three bedrooms. Lounge with windows both ends for cooling breezes. Rooms big enough, though no study/office. TV aerial point in every room! Oil central heating, with another baffling boiler.
Downstairs there's one 'through' garage with doors both ends, and then another massive garage with a pit and a high ceiling and two roll-over doors. This looks like it's been used commercially for servicing cars. It could easily become a church room or meeting room because the ceiling is pretty high (3 metres?)
EXCEPT:
It's on a very busy road, just between a roundabout and the TGV railway line, and parking will be limited.
The house and its garden are being sold in three lots -
1) front garden to build a "maison de ville",
2) house and pool
3) rear garden for another couple of houses.
Also the wiring in the house is idiosyncratic, to say the least. It looks to me like they have rewired it and saved money by removing most of the lights, etc, sticking ceiling roses over the holes, but not actually removing the switches which once operated the lights. There's a jumble of new sockets and old sockets. Do they all work? Who knows!
Hmmm. I think it's time to talk to some French friends about this.
It is by far the nearest house to the schools we have seen. It needs the stucco filling and painting outside and it is very high and very big. It would take me AGES or cost a fortune. It does have a pool, though. And once they have sold off the land front and rear very little else by way of garden, so no mowing!
We end up seeing these houses which are slightly odd or have problems because we are trying to buy a cheap house in an expensive area! It's a question of weighing up the pros and cons.
I did have a chat with the guy about the Landaise. He says that the house hasn't sold because people are put off by the two houses that will be built in front of it.
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