We spent a week searching for our ideal home all over the Limousin area, with the help of the local team from VEF and realised that our naïve idea to find a bargain, only in need of a little DiY & a bit of tender loving care was not achievable for the budget we had in mind.
The viewing of more than a dozen properties ranging from €30-100,000 resulted in us discovering what many people before us and after have discovered; that you would have to gut most places and start from base with the basics.
Most properties would need to be completely rewired, heating installed and all the sanitation replaced, relocated or even installed for the first time and a kitchen installed. As a result we concluded that if we were going to pay for a place and have to GUT it, then we might as well look for something that was already an empty shell.
So our research continued and we booked for a second visit over the Easter break in April 2004.
