Just you know: I'm building a file of things to talk about.

 

My team specialty was marketing. We figured out over the years how to sell weekly/monthly rentals to North American audiences. In 2020 we were booked fully & then along came you know what.

 

Simone (of course) has files upon files; plenty of weeds to get into.

 

Let me cruise this for a week or so ... and get back to you about Zooming. I want to make more notes before we talk.

 

I'm assuming you wish to continue renting the place, as we did?

 

Rental correspondence was Simone's realm; the paperwork for and tracking the taxes. But, as I said, her records are here.

 

I would say, on balance, that owning a house in France was 90% extraordinary and 10% occasionally a pain, if you were renting it. It's not all low-hanging fruit and double espressos. But you have good neighbors. And in 20 years of rentals we had exactly one (long time ago) a problem ... and they insisted they'd done nothing wrong and wanted to rent again.

 

The Brit keyholders in France managed the visitor flow: cleaning, putting out the linens, arranging repairs.

 

There were a few books written at the house (or at least sketched out; it's a great place to simplify your thinking: eat, drink, see, walk, watch the village come awake, listen to mourning doves in the evening, write, repeat).

 

~ tom