Okay, so we weren’t actually gazumped – I just like using that word. An apartment came up for sale in the building across the street (Residence du Haut Languedoc) and someone got an offer in before us. It was accepted. So we’re on the waiting list in the unlikely case anything goes wrong with the sale. Anyway, I’ve finally got around to convincing Mike we should continue to invest in Mazamet, so that’s progress. Letting money sit in the bank at the interest they pay these days is insanity.
Now some interesting news not yet available anywhere else …! Another house on the Boulevard de Lattre de Tassigny is up for sale. A very polite elderly woman lived there, she used to spend a lot of time at the downstairs window – and said hello every time I passed it. She fell ill about six months ago, was taken away and never returned home. Now the place is up for sale at an incredibly low price (perhaps to pay for a nursing home?)
It’s number 13, the house with the provençal green shutters. Not one of the bigger houses in the area, but an excellent address. The house needs updating, but is in generally good condition. When we first arrived and the trees weren’t yet blocking the view I peaked inside – from an upstairs bedroom, using the zoom function on my good camera 😀 The rooms aren’t big, but flow nicely into each other with a good central hallway. It’s got a nice compact garden.
The asking price is €150 thousand and it’s for sale here. This is the only agency it’s listed with at the moment. From what I’ve heard (for a quick sale) the owner will take 133k + there’s the 5% agent’s commission and then notary fees.
Here’s the garden side (facing south)
And now as seen from one of our guest rooms
And here’s the cadastre so you get an idea of the street, we’re labelled Our house, and number 13 is marked with the red star.
133!? That wouldn’t buy you a toilet in SP or Sydney
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Or London, or Paris, or Madrid!!!
Even for this town it’s a great price. From what I’ve heard the family doesn’t live here and just want a sale asap.
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Then step up and *help* them out 🙂
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I don’t have the energy, it’s just too big a project. I’m up for maybe a small apartment per year, ideally 2 bedrooms. Definitely not a big house that’ll need a new kitchen, maybe new bathrooms etc.
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I don’t have the energy,/em>
Sorry, I forgot you’re 116 years old 😉
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We’ve spent the past 3 years doing up 8 apartments and this house! From purchase to new floor-plans to execution. There are still two closed spaces in building II because I haven’t had the energy to make them into homes yet 😛
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Oh I know, I know, the calluses must be the size and texture of rhinoceros’s by now. Put your feet up, I’ll make you a nice pot of Da Hong Pao tea 😉
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Bastard 😛
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Well? Are you or aren’t you? Maybe this was Fate nudging you. I love the fact that you could end up owning the whole street. :D:D
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Not this one. We’re sticking to rental homes for people on lower incomes. The part I’ve enjoyed most is trying to create a nice place for someone to live on a small budget. There’s something incredibly satisfying in creating something “from nothing” 🙂
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Ah, I see. -grin- Careful, Pinky, we might start thinking you’re on a mission.
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A mini-mission 🙂 But yes, if I had the means I’d transform budget housing everywhere. Creating attractive spaces on a budget is possible.
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It is if you’ve got taste, a good eye and no fear of getting your hands dirty. 🙂
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Nice interior from the pics… but I don’t fancy smaller houses on a street with much better ones across the road.
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Ha! I’m not going to lie, I have a terrifying competitive streak, so I know exactly what you mean 🙂 But I do think it’ll make a nice home for someone who isn’t pathologically competitive.
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It’s a fabulous buy for someone – the pics on Leboncoin testify to a place that will truly shine and with the added frisson of looking at an elegant triumph opposite. I’ll draw a veil over the possibility of the occupant of that same elegant triumph feeling drawn to his zoom lens to check on progress 😉
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The height difference means I see their furniture and they see my ceilings 😀 The only people who can see into our house are the new neighbours in the 3 story Empire house.
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You know, in seriousness, if I weren’t in Massachusetts for the next year or so, I would actively consider the place as an investment. However, I am sure the lady who is now in nursing care would rather someone move in who is going to live in it so I will console myself with that notion. It’s always good when one has a height advantage (in whatever context)
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How’s the internet around there?
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You have an interesting northern neighbor… Is that all park south west of you?
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Here’s the google earth version, we’re the property in the red square:

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They’re finally installing fibre. It should be working by the end of the summer 😀
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Ooohhh, fabulous potential. Suddenly I want a house in France. Just so I can prove to the neighbors that size isn’t everything.
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😀
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It’s certainly cheap. I love the hall floor & doors & the staircase. It’s a pity photos of the other rooms haven’t been posted (perhaps they are so grotty they’d put people off looking).
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They took the free ad option which only allows three pictures. If people email them I’m sure they’ll have more 🙂
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well, Pink, just place your bid. 133 ain’t a bad deal
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Husband says house is too far from his work to consider, he could get a transfer to his firm in Toulouse but would need to work closer. A shame as I could have walked your dogs.
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They say once the new motorway is working we’ll be in commuter distance of Toulouse! 50 minutes or so 🙂
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Yes, well, the problem would be the neighbours, of course . . .
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Especially if I’m on a manic-music day, then the entire street trembles because of the volume 😀
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Ghastly Grime or some such, one suspects . . .
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More like Jo Stafford, who’d be about your age were she still alive 😛
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Marvellous, her and Anne Shelton, both fine young songstresses. I should’ve been proud to have had either as daughters. This one rather puts me in mind of you, actually.
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