I thought this photo perfectly illustrated one of the many
reasons why it pays to use a property finder out here, especially if you don’t
have the time or money to make endless trips to France to view properties which
look perfect in the photos but then turn out to be very disappointing in
reality.
Of course, I am sure that there are plenty of people who
wouldn’t mind living under a high voltage power line – I have even seen new
houses built right underneath so that you can hear the hum of the electricity
passing overhead. Others may be happy to have a huge pylon as a feature in the
middle of their garden. But I know from experience that the majority of people
moving to France are looking for a better quality of life and a healthier
lifestyle and there is no way that I would ever recommend a house in this
particular type of ‘hot-spot’ for any of my clients.
Hence the 90 minute round trip to view this property was a
complete waste of time. But at least it was my time, not my clients’ and this
is, after all, my job. Although these wasted viewings are very frustrating they
are a large part of the search; the process of sorting the wheat from the chaff
and making sure that I have seen every apparently suitable house for sale before
drawing up a short-list of the very best properties on the market that match
budget and brief. It is a time-consuming and frustrating process but also
immensely satisfying when I know that I have found the ‘one’.
