Renovation project - End of an Era

Renovation project - End of an Era

This is it, we have the Notaire meeting this morning, we really are selling up, there is no going back.

The house looks perfect, the beds are made, the toiletries are laid out in the bathrooms.

John goes outside and removes the B&B signs, it only seems like yesterday that we were putting them up.

Do I really want to go? It has been almost 3 years here, our hearts and souls have been put into this house, we have lived and breathed this renovation and the B&B for so long, it is perfect, the sun is even shining and our garden is starting to look fantastic, we will never sit at the kitchen patio again with our morning coffee, we will not go out to feed Edith and Amalie (who by the way are staying with the new owners).

But it is too late for any last minute wobbles, the buyers will be arriving soon for a final walk through and to take copies of the meter readings.

This is not something done in the UK, but here in France on the day you purchase your property, you meet the estate agent at your new house before you do the final signing too make sure that everything is just as it should be.

The new owners arrive and they love the house just as much as they did when they first viewed, they are also really happy with the fact that they can literally just move in.

The Notaire meeting is very straight forward, our Notaire speaks excellent English, so there is no need for a translator. However if you are buying in France I would always recommend that you have somebody that speaks English with you, so that you know exactly what you are signing.

However in France there should be no nasty surprises as everything has been agreed before hand and all relevant documents have been sent to the Notaire and you have already signed the compromise de vente.

We all sit there and each of us sign the contract, every page has to be initialled by all vendors and all purchasers to state that you understand what you are buying.

After the final signature you hand over the keys and that is it, so simple, so painless.

We now no longer own Huelgoat B&B.

This is the strangest feeling ever, it is very similar to when we first bought the property, such a momentous occasion, and yet I want to sit and cry, I feel so lost, what do we do now?


But obviously that story starts tomorrow!