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Bargain! 260,000 euros excluding Notaire's fees. House: three double bedrooms, huge landing/office, bath/shower room, large walk-in wardrobe storage suitable for conversion to en-suite, entrance hall, large kitchen/diner, huge lounge with charantaise fireplace and woodburner, cellar. Original featur...

Snow and frozen here again in "sunny" Poitou-Charentes. More and colder forecast. We are getting England's weather now!! Oh joy!

And Peter -

"and an enquiry is not a booking".

Precisely.

I shall not be taking up this offer having read all the various postings on this subject. Thank you all for confirming my decision.

Not retiring - retrenching. Hope to move to somewhere smaller and easier for one person to maintain. Still have to wait 2 years for my pension, drat it!!!!

Large, renovated, three double-bedroomed farmhouse, two barns, three hangars, other small outbuildings, land, well, 10m x 5m swimming-pool and three small gites with booking history (bookings for 2010) for sale, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes. 295,000 euros for private sale. Potential for further developm...

If the property is sold as an on-going business, will not the new owners take on the bookings? I was thinking that, depending on the date of completion and dates of bookings, the deposits paid up-front would belong to the current owner to offset marketing costs and admin, and the balances would be p...

I was just about to post an enquiry regarding this email promotion from Ryanair regarding pre-pay per enquiry. With no track record to go on, why should I want to pre-pay? There are precisely 5 properties in the Poitou-Charentes region shown on the Perfect Getaways website (one in Charente and the o...

I've just gone onto SFR(Neuf) from Orange/France Telecom and so far so good. I chose them because their website was easier to navigate and also because I had a recommendation from my webmaster. Fingers crossed.

Hi Guys, Blimey, it's a long time since I posted here. I hope you are all thriving. I have been approached for a 6-month let for my little gite over the winter (hooray!) and I am aware of at least some of the potential pitfalls. Has anyone got a legal contract for a longer let than the usual holiday...

It's my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that there is a fixed price per gite plus a percentage of rental charged. A tad on the expensive side to my mind.

Tansy, where do you advertise to get your Holland, Germany and other EU bookings, please?

Thanks, all. I shall immediately sign up to PLV and keep my fingers crossed.

Must translate my website, too.

I would like to get more French/EU customers into my gites. Do any of you have experience of Gites de France vs Clevacances? GdF seem pretty expensive and I don't want to register if it is going to have adverse effects on taxation (see topic re taxe de sejour - if the authorities do that to me I sha...

So no one has used Your Holiday Rentals yet? I was looking for anyone's experience of the site to see whether it would be worth paying for advertisements.

Opinions and experience, please, if you would be so kind.