lots of work - been too busy for blogging, tsk tsk
It's not all bad, i'd rather work for me than anyone else - the only problem is that when i make a mistake there is no one else to blame - cripes! I dont even have a cat to kick, although the boyfriend makes a good alternative and it usually is his fault....
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
what?
So we had to decide what to buy.
This was pretty tough - originally we were interested in an old traditional house that we could renovate - my dad's got all the building experience and I'm a great lackey!
Some of the old houses here look fantastic and would be great projects to do up, but....
finding exactly what you want can be tough. I wanted to offer luxury at affordable prices which means en-suite bathrooms, lots of space, room for a hot tub and a massage room - you get the idea. The problem with buying something that has already been built is that you are stuck with certain dimensions and room sizes that are quite what you want.
The other problem is that the old buildings are not always well built and we didnt want to end up spending a small fortune trying to fix damp and draughty spots or lose all the heat because of bad insulation.
So we decided that for us, the best thing to do would be to find something that we could extend and change easily or that we could build ourselves from scratch.
We did put an offer in on a great little chalet that we wanted to extend and cou;d have got pretty close to what we wanted, but the owner would not lower the price at all and it worked out just too much.
Then we found an amazing piece of land just off one of the pistes that will be developed in the next few years. An expensive hotel has bought the land next to it, but all around is national forest that cannot be built on. Tranquil, ski-in ski-out, beautiful.
But, it was a massive piece of land - I just could not afford to build anything if we bought it. I would have a lovely piece of land in the forest with posh neighbours but I didn't think a tent was going to cut it!
We considered getting investors in, but it would have been a huge project-we would have become developers and that is not what we wanted so back to the search.
Next - halfway up the mountain, some of the best views we have seen. But at the moment in the middle of nowhere. Now if it had been a holiday home jus for myself I would have snapped this piece up. It's gorgeous and the new pistes in Dobrinishte will be somewhere nearby. It;s close to the quirky fish farm where you can fish for yor dinner but.. its a 15 minute drive into town. down a very bumpy road. it's a steep hill - you coul;d never walk it in ski boots. In a few years i can envisage this becoming a fab little enclove for a few ski chalets but we needed something that we can get going a little bit quicker...
So, a little bit further down the mountain - on the edge of the town in fact. 2 plots next to each other, looking up at the mountin. Already in regulation so building permission is easy to get - pretty nice views, nothing allowed to be built in front of it (at the moment). This one looked promising.
Buying property or land is just not simple and easy, but where is it like that? I'm getting a headache just thinking about it all again!
This was pretty tough - originally we were interested in an old traditional house that we could renovate - my dad's got all the building experience and I'm a great lackey!
Some of the old houses here look fantastic and would be great projects to do up, but....
finding exactly what you want can be tough. I wanted to offer luxury at affordable prices which means en-suite bathrooms, lots of space, room for a hot tub and a massage room - you get the idea. The problem with buying something that has already been built is that you are stuck with certain dimensions and room sizes that are quite what you want.
The other problem is that the old buildings are not always well built and we didnt want to end up spending a small fortune trying to fix damp and draughty spots or lose all the heat because of bad insulation.
So we decided that for us, the best thing to do would be to find something that we could extend and change easily or that we could build ourselves from scratch.
We did put an offer in on a great little chalet that we wanted to extend and cou;d have got pretty close to what we wanted, but the owner would not lower the price at all and it worked out just too much.
Then we found an amazing piece of land just off one of the pistes that will be developed in the next few years. An expensive hotel has bought the land next to it, but all around is national forest that cannot be built on. Tranquil, ski-in ski-out, beautiful.
But, it was a massive piece of land - I just could not afford to build anything if we bought it. I would have a lovely piece of land in the forest with posh neighbours but I didn't think a tent was going to cut it!
We considered getting investors in, but it would have been a huge project-we would have become developers and that is not what we wanted so back to the search.
Next - halfway up the mountain, some of the best views we have seen. But at the moment in the middle of nowhere. Now if it had been a holiday home jus for myself I would have snapped this piece up. It's gorgeous and the new pistes in Dobrinishte will be somewhere nearby. It;s close to the quirky fish farm where you can fish for yor dinner but.. its a 15 minute drive into town. down a very bumpy road. it's a steep hill - you coul;d never walk it in ski boots. In a few years i can envisage this becoming a fab little enclove for a few ski chalets but we needed something that we can get going a little bit quicker...
So, a little bit further down the mountain - on the edge of the town in fact. 2 plots next to each other, looking up at the mountin. Already in regulation so building permission is easy to get - pretty nice views, nothing allowed to be built in front of it (at the moment). This one looked promising.
Buying property or land is just not simple and easy, but where is it like that? I'm getting a headache just thinking about it all again!
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