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More than likey somebody put himthere for being to slow ha ha

Only drink red aussie wine ha ha , daft innit going to live in france and only drink aussie wine, wonder if they have any in the supermarkets Just had estate agent on the phone, going tuesday to me at home, dying to know how he is going to talkhis way out of this one. Man speaks with fork tongue so to speak

Join in please do, if you have anything relevant to St Germain. We are suffering notaire probs thats all. Where are you living then anywhere near me . regards

No. it should only take a couple of days, if you are going through a estate agent he should get back to you fairly soon . Unusual , notaire isn't suppose to get involed in that i thought. Sounds very slow, Ours didn't even want us to go to france and sign, sent contract here and just sign and send back, thats strange as well. If we hadn't translated it, we would never of come up with prob, Badel Fish bye the way. Its free,and fairly good translation. Have you got phone number of this bloke. Ring him or get somebody to do it for you Be there this monday see prop and estate agent have a good old row ha ha PS Have noticed ours have gone on easter holiday so we a have a delay now as well.     Regards Bruce

Going on the 23rd April, be at house on 25th to see estate agent, and go over contract, he said right of way not a bit issue, beg to differ, will be interested to see what he comes up with, says to him, quick fix not an option. Going to measure the house for the architect, just in case all goes through   Watch this space

I am sure you are right, i have been told by everybody this is standard practice. The only thing i don;t understand is why the estate agent wants to hold a 15000 euro cheque until the final sale, although there is no dosh in that account, he says it is just for good faith. I am sure its okay, just not norml here in the UK. I am sure everything is going to be fine, just as soon as the right of way problem has been sorted out. Bit peeved thats all that the estate agent didn't pick this up in the first place although we pointed it out to him, the bloody great big tractors tracks across our garden

This the breakdown of the costs euro's   7.000 deposit 63.000 vendor 4.700 agency. 5300notaire. 15.000 cash vendor Total 95.000 See what you think, the 15.000 cash is the usual fiddle inheritance tax i suspect

Hi ya everyone, just thought i would ask this one, the lake house i am trying to purchase is coming unstuck at the moment, but noticed in the deed of sale, that the property price is 70.000 euro;s but i am paying 95,000 euros, i understand the notaire fee and the estate agents fee, but don't understand where roughly 25.000 euros gets charged anybody out there got some idea thanks

Hi ya, not all that hopefull. the notaire knew about it , so it must be written in stone somewhere, althought the guy that owned the house before died fifiteen years ago, he must of written something down, i only hope the decendants go see the farmer and tell him they can.t sell the place because of him. See what happens , but really angry with estate agent,3.5k fotr nothing. good mind to sue him for incompetence

Same trouble here, just about to sign and a right of way issue has emerged, right balls up, Etadte agent is now looking a right plonker, might loose the house, really bad job by this guy Hope nobody suffers the same outcome . keep you posted   Bruce

Blow me , l am really depressed now, just had my compte  de vente, sent to me here in the UK, the estate agent said  we didn't need to come to france to sign and pay, do it in the uk, wow i thouight what service, they said they would tell me what was in it so no worries. l used the computer to translate said document, and low and behold what did l find, there is a right of way clause in it from the farmer next door, giving right of way to drive his tractors right through my garden. I spotted this when we went down there for the second time, l even asked the farmer about the track, he just shrugged his shoulders. Now l know why,    In  the contract it clearly states we knew about all this,  when in actual fact we didn't. You have really got to watch these people, the estate agent said he was sorry and didn;t know about the right of way.    Likely story.   As from now it seems we are in luimbo, can't see how this is going to change.watch this space .Anybody with similar stories.  The estate agents name was roger and thats just about what he will get if this all falls through. ha ha

None at present. only it seems in the big cities, but i bet they are out there, we live in Bournemouth and have found there are quiet a few married to us UK guys living in the area..Must be mad ha ha

No i am afraid not, shame really. hope to see somebody when we are out there. There must be some Japanese out there , they seem to appear where ever we go.  ha ha

Hi everybody, anything on here about using mobile accomodation, eg caravan mobile home. on ones site whilst one is renovating ones property, sort term of course . I have been told there is all sorts of regs for this .

Thanks for that didn't realise sorry