Sunday is usually a quite day and the day I try to clear my desk and work on the house/garden – it is a day for the family as my 21 year old daughter Clio is home from University in Montpellier for the weekend . Sunday lunch today will be a leg of lamb (probably New Zealand).
This morning has been taken up with editing my general Blog at www.Twiku.com as there have been a few postings about Madeleine McCann, the little girl missing in Portugal. Some of the comments give rise to positive ideas.
Ths afternoon I need to anylise some figures for investments and I have a facscinating project, to rationalise a property we have been offered in Roujan. It is offered by a businessman and is a complex of apartments, shops and storage, plus a barn and other buildings slap bang in the middle of the high street – what I find interesting is that he is offering a fully operational, well established electronics and electrical business with over 3000 clients, 500 of these are regular repeat customers. All this is lumped into the property price. I think it is a bargain, for one million euro you have a home, investment income and a living.
A lot of my clients want to move to France, but they know (or very soon learn) that getting a job is next to impossible and settng up a business is very difficult. I am looking at offering a business brokerage service alongside our real-estate offers.
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I decided not to sit at a computer all afternoon but to demolish some old stairs going up to the apartments we have in our property. This is a big old house and when we bought it three years ago it was operating as a family house for the 19th century part and as a gite complex in the older buildings – we had had enough of rentals in our previous home and decided to leave the rooms empty.
However the demand for accommodation is so big that I have decided to modernise them and make my ideal rental propety – probably as a BandB – after twelve years of telling other people how to do it and running our own place it is about time I put this experience into good use.
Anyway the exercise is good for me – so a few tons of rubble have been loaded toay and IÂ am planning how to layout the new heating systems and whether to put an elevator into the apartments.
So this blog may turn into “Confessions of a Realtor” and a French version of “Fawlty towers”