Hmmm "Building" might be a tad optimistic...

[Kim]

http://www.frenchpropertylinks.com/frenchpropertyextradetails.asp?property=apbm670

Possibly one of the cheapest buildings in this area, set in rural central Brittany not to far from a lake suitable for swimming and nearby walks. This cottage requires extensive renovation works

LOL ... how's your DIY skills?

 

[Fufu]

Keyword and a selling ad word "Renovation" usually gets a buyer to buy an undesirable property.

 

[Tomble]

Worryingly that looks better than quite a few of the places my parents have been looking to buy in France... :S.

 

[Kim]

Worryingly that looks better than quite a few of the places my parents have been looking to buy in France... :S.

EEks! be afraid, be very afraid...

 

[Peggy]

Perhaps it's so cheap because it is only half a building?

 

[CurveGotti]

Perhaps it's so cheap because it is only half a building?

lol that or because from the picture it looks like a good storm will cause it to slide away.

 

[Kim]

LOL

don't let your imagination hold you back from seeing the full potential.

Somehow I don't think it's my "imagination" that would be holding me back from that one.. probably more like the 200,000 Euros in structural engineering and rebuilding.

 

[CurveGotti]

LOL

Somehow I don't think it's my "imagination" that would be holding me back from that one.. probably more like the 200,000 Euros in structural engineering and rebuilding.

At least you'd save a bundle on going green, looks like there is already plenty of that.

 

[Peggy]

At least you'd save a bundle on going green, looks like there is already plenty of that.

Boy ain't it the truth!

LOL

Somehow I don't think it's my "imagination" that would be holding me back from that one.. probably more like the 200,000 Euros in structural engineering and rebuilding.

Rebuilding? I don't think they ever finished!

 

[SchmitzIT]

So a couple of bricks piled on top of one another with a few trees thrown in for good measure nowadays is called a "Cottage" in France?

Heh. Reminds me of the book Freakonomics, where they dive into the jargon used by real estate agents. For instance:

“Fantastic,” meanwhile, is a dangerously ambiguous adjective, as is “charming.” Both these words seem to be real-estate agent code for a house that doesn’t have many specific attributes worth describing. “Spacious” homes, meanwhile, are often decrepit or impractical. “Great neighborhood” signals a buyer that, well, this house isn’t very nice but others nearby may be. And an exclamation point in a real estate ad is bad news for sure, a bid to paper over real shortcomings with false enthusiasm.

The best thing that could happen to that cottage is a bulldozer or a pound of C4

 

[Paul B]

or a pound of C4

It's France so it would have to be 500g

 

[Peggy]

So a couple of bricks piled on top of one another with a few trees thrown in for good measure nowadays is called a "Cottage" in France?

ROFL apparently so!