Thanks to @ChocLili for new thread title and her contributions generally!
Interesting. So you potentially get a cheap chateau but your neighbour owns pretty well all the land.I’ve started researching the chateau featured by Dan. It was posted on Le Bon Coin — similar to Gumtree in the UK. It was bought three years ago at auction, the owner (Patrick Surget) only interested in its 8 hectares of woodland and the guardian’s cottage he wants to restore for himself using the money from the sale of the chateau. The chateau he hopes will be dismantled or restored... No starting price listed. The post has now been taken down from Le Bon Coin.
Insolite - Un château ayant recueilli des enfants juifs en Creuse en vente sur Le Bon coin
Ce n'est pas nouveau, on trouve de tout sur le site de vente Le Bon coin. Mais un château, ce n'est pas si courant. Même en ruine. Le château de Chaumont, sur la commune de Mainsat, qui avait recueilli des enfants juifs, parmi lesquels Popeck, trouvera-t-il un acquéreur qui le rénovera à la...www.lamontagne.fr
I don’t think Dan has really thought this through, however good his intentions. He would have been better off with something less derelict for a charitable cause. Also, it appears to have the same name as its much more famous counterpart, which could lead to confusion! Of course, since this article was written, the owner may have had a change of heart and is selling the whole kit and caboodle. Perhaps Dan could clarify... I can’t help making comparisons with the whole fairytale lake scenario...Interesting. So you potentially get a cheap chateau but your neighbour owns pretty well all the land.
Do old French chateaux cast some sort of haunted spell, disproportionately affecting Brits, which causes those living souls to lose any sense of rational thought and financial acumen?This is madness, the 75000 are for buying and hopefully tax and any real estate agents? Next comes then another gofundme for getting estimates how to restore it? And then another gofundme for 10 Million to rebuild it? And then in between he will realise that he can't finish it and will sell it, but all the donors won't get their money back, am I right?
In Dan’s case, I think charity really should begin at home. He has a lot on his plate already with his own house and two young boys who need him.Do old French chateaux cast some sort of haunted spell, disproportionately affecting Brits, which causes those living souls to lose any sense of rational thought and financial acumen?
To quote PJJ.. I agree. I'm hardly going to donate to someone who is still to prove they can sanely rebuild their own home and spell.In Dan’s case, I think charity really should begin at home. He has a lot on his plate already with his own house and two young boys who need him.
Very funny and seemingly very true, France is close to the UK and the low cost of properties is to tempting, I have a house in France (not a chateau) it is easy to see how beguiled people can become at the thought of owning there own castle, but even after restoring , the huge running costs never end . This is why the French are happy for us Brits to buy and bring life back into their old relics. make them beautiful again. I have just joined this forum, I think I am becoming addicted to watching "The Chateau Lalande " love or hate their antics.Do old French chateaux cast some sort of haunted spell, disproportionately affecting Brits, which causes those living souls to lose any sense of rational thought and financial acumen?
Note the comment at the end tagging Scotman... oh she’s SO in with the in crowd. it’s quite sad really.Oh yea, we’re laughing Dear Brenda, but not WITH you . . . AT you.
YouTubeitis, with mutant strains known as Patreonitis and GoFundMeitis.Do old French chateaux cast some sort of haunted spell, disproportionately affecting Brits, which causes those living souls to lose any sense of rational thought and financial acumen?
Snap .... had the very same thoughtNote the comment at the end tagging Scotman... oh she’s SO in with the in crowd. it’s quite sad really.
I can't blame him for trying. Everyone thinks the owners/rescuers of Chateau de la Mothe-Chandeniers are heroes.I don’t think Dan has really thought this through, however good his intentions. He would have been better off with something less derelict for a charitable cause. Also, it appears to have the same name as its much more famous counterpart, which could lead to confusion! Of course, since this article was written, the owner may have had a change of heart and is selling the whole kit and caboodle. Perhaps Dan could clarify... I can’t help making comparisons with the whole fairytale lake scenario...
For his sake (and his family’s sake for that matter) - thank goodness. I hope they can realize what a bullet they dodged.I can't blame him for trying. Everyone thinks the owners/rescuers of Chateau de la Mothe-Chandeniers are heroes.
...and too late. SOLD
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Starting a crowd-funding project before it was even agreed in principle... It beggars belief. And now he’ll have to give everyone a refund presumably...I can't blame him for trying. Everyone thinks the owners/rescuers of Chateau de la Mothe-Chandeniers are heroes.
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This is something which I also have been very concerned about, it sometimes reminds me of those repulsive TV Evangelists, who used to try to pluck the elderly bald back in the day...There are clearly some very vulnerable people watching these channels handing over family heirlooms & wads of cash. It’s getting very dark now with all the begging.
Well said Takeaway.I’m amazed a newspaper hasn’t got hold of this yet, it wouldn’t take much for a journalist to work out what’s going on. Ruthy, Potty’s girlfriend used to work for a paper that would love this expose Daily Mail scoop!!!!!