Surely when you make an offer you are just stating what you are prepared to pay. At that point nothing is binding. Itās only after the seller accepts the offer and you sit down and sign things that the wording becomes crucial.
I was thinking much the same thingā¦ we agreed over the telephone, then went off to meet the Owner (face to face)ā¦ and sign the āpromisā so neither of us could back out except by invoking the all-important get-out clausesā¦
@Mat_Davies ā¦ surely you need to be at the house, with the Sellerā¦ to discuss just what is included in the priceā¦ ???
If you intend making an offer without any French then you are taking a huge gamble. At least you should find yourself an interpreter so you understand all the issues. After the offer is accepted, how will you cope with notaires etc?
Well I have made an offer and we wIll see what the result is = exciting stuff.
I am not phased by the English/French issue as we have been here before as @Aquitaine has correctly suggested, I was just after any stock phrases that it is sensible to include in an offer to purchase a property.
In terms of the house it is almost identical to the house we already own, just in a worse state. In have had two known builders go around the house to give me a 2nd and 3rd opinion.
Iām sure we all wish you well in this venture Matā¦
Perhaps you could come back with a new Topic, telling us how things progressā¦ that would be really interesting ā¦and it would be encouraging to others who might be (almost) as brave as you are.
It has been a very long time indeed - I apologise for not replying sooner.
Eventually our offer was accepted (Mar 18) and things progressed quite quickly with the Notaireā¦
At this point the doubts started to happen as to the overall viability of the project.
We eventually pulled out of the contract before the Acte de Vente was finalised, we lost our deposit which we knew would happen. It was an expensive episode but better to limit the expense at that point than proceed with the project.
Mat, I have to say that I had a similar sort of experience; I didnāt get to the point of paying the deposit. However, the experience with the local carpenters was excrutiating and puzzling, and downright disrespectful. And, perhaps it was because I was looking at property with similar issues as concerned viability of the repairs needed. I even had a structural engineer come in and look at it, and he found some obvious stuff that needed immediate attention that the carpenters/contractors hadnāt bothered to look at or mention. It wasā¦complex; as Iām sure yours sounds to have been.
But, itās not going to stop me. It does make things interesting and a bit challenging, no? A few more gray hairs.
Itās smart to have been serious enough to get to the point of making the deposit, but then I feel also smart to have had the guts to pull out. Not an easy thing to do, bravo to you. Sometimes I wonder if we would get the answers/responses, if we hadnāt actually acted to that extent. I chalk it up to my education costs
Rather than losing a deposit, for my part, Iām in danger of losing my french horn which I foolishly stored in the property (thinking I was surely going to buy it). I go back to retrieve said horn, in a few weeks.
I for one would be interested to learn what your next steps might be, and I would be happy to update on my discoveries and decisions for purchasing. Iām now looking at Bourgogne, perhaps near Auxerre, in the Morvan forest preserve. There seem to be a lot of properties in my price range thereā¦