The French Property Buyer's Guide Ebook

The French Property Buyer's Guide

When we bought our French home I was confused by the process, metagrobolized by the activity and disquieted just about my limited language skills.
Worse than that, I was frightened that any mistakes we ready-made could end up being very, really expensive! 

 I have to assume that the fact you're reading this means you're interested in purchasing property in France.

Maybe you're purchasing for investment.

• Perhaps it's a holiday home?
  
• Or possibly you're looking for a permanent move. Acquiring out of the rat-race or going somewhere wherever your savings wish stretch a bit further?

  Doesn't actually matter, the challenges and pitfalls are the same.

  For a start, if you're thing like me your French isn't what you'd call fluent. Once we affected here it was more than twenty years since I'd knowing any French at school and I wasn't exactly an 'A' student then!

  We'd been here quite a few times on holiday and my French had decidedly improved but it still wasn't great.

  Possibly that's not you. If you speak nice French you have a great head start. If you don't you'll be needing several help.

  But who do you turn to for help? English representatives? French estate agents? So-called "consultants"? It's difficult to cognize who to trust once evidently a lot of them have their own interest at heart and fiscal rewards at stake.

  Then there's the legal stuff. Oh boy, the legal stuff. We've all detected horror stories just about how more the French like their activity and their forms. It would-be be bad enough in English but once it comes in a language you have trouble understanding... need I say more?

So the idea of purchasing in France is great. Unluckily for galore folk the actual process can be really stressful, fraught with worry and fiscal concerns.

It doesn't need to be. Possibly we can help.

  I have to say at this point I'm not an estate agent or property adviser or thing like that. Nor am I a conveyance solicitor or lawyer.

  So how come I wrote The French Property Buyer's Guide? Well it's funny how things turn out sometimes, isn't it.

  Not long after we bought our lovely old French farmhouse, several friends affected to France. Of course we were in a great position to help them, which we did. Then we helped several friends of those friends. They insisted on paying us for our time and trouble. On that occasion we accepted a few bottles of wine but before really long word was acquiring round and we had a thriving small business on our hands!

  To be honest with you though, profitable although it is, it's not what we came here to do. We've got our own interests and the business meant we were disbursement more and more time sorting things out for another folk and not doing our own thing. Appreciated activity once you see the smile on someone's face once they're acquiring the keys to their new French home but, as I say, not what we came here to do.

  The thing is, you don't want to let folk down, do you.

  The solution? Well my married woman aforesaid we should write several instructions. That way we could help but wouldn't have to be directly involved.

  Nice idea, I thought. Trouble is, once we started writing it all down it was shortly ten pages, then twenty, then thirty....
Therefore this ebook, The French Property Buyer's Manual (which incidentally complete up at sixty pages). It's all the things we could think of that you need to cognize once you buy a property in France, all in one convenient place. It's not full of fluff and property-speak, it's full of what we've learned.

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