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Post by exile on Feb 1, 2022 22:10:23 GMT 1
We were comparatively lucky with a very helpful agent. Gave him our requirements and unlike all the others we contacted, actually paid attention to them rather than just trying just to push whatever was on his books and perhaps not moving. Which is not to suggest he was some sort of saint - far from it.
Mind you he was Dutch and used to a Dutch/Belgian/German clientele and, starting the month we booked appointments with him, English - courtesy of Nippy and Nigel.
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Post by omegal on Feb 2, 2022 12:25:09 GMT 1
We were comparatively lucky with a very helpful agent. Gave him our requirements and unlike all the others we contacted, actually paid attention to them rather than just trying just to push whatever was on his books and perhaps not moving. Which is not to suggest he was some sort of saint - far from it. Mind you he was Dutch and used to a Dutch/Belgian/German clientele and, starting the month we booked appointments with him, English - courtesy of Nippy and Nigel. Remember those two well. Nothing to do with this company was it De Graaf Immobilier, Saint-Jean-de-Côle ?
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Post by Seaboots on Feb 2, 2022 12:53:57 GMT 1
In 1989 we offered a more complete service by picking the client up at Poitiers airport, booking them into a nice hotel in La Rochefoucauld and then showing them around properties until returning them to the airport for the flight to London Sunday late afternoon. It worked well, we sold a heck of a lot of properties.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 13:06:32 GMT 1
In 1989 we offered a more complete service by picking the client up at Poitiers airport, booking them into a nice hotel in La Rochefoucauld and then showing them around properties until returning them to the airport for the flight to London Sunday late afternoon. It worked well, we sold a heck of a lot of properties. That was a great service to offer but how do you stop the day dreamers or people just out to look at the area. We did that a few times but never got a sale through driving people about. If we talked to the children often they would say the parents do this every year, so you knew not to spend to much time on them. Back in the day we used to get hundreds of pictures printed on properties and if feeling flush colour photocopies Now it's walk around videos, google images and dozens of pictures from every angle. How times have changed.
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Post by exile on Feb 2, 2022 13:07:20 GMT 1
We were comparatively lucky with a very helpful agent. Gave him our requirements and unlike all the others we contacted, actually paid attention to them rather than just trying just to push whatever was on his books and perhaps not moving. Which is not to suggest he was some sort of saint - far from it. Mind you he was Dutch and used to a Dutch/Belgian/German clientele and, starting the month we booked appointments with him, English - courtesy of Nippy and Nigel. Remember those two well. Nothing to do with this company was it De Graaf Immobilier, Saint-Jean-de-Côle ? No miles away. The very first episode with N&N went out on the box the day before we set off south for all of our pre-arranged appointments. I noted the 07 number plate on the 2CV and thought, oh no. They started off looking in the North and I thought we were safe until at the end of the episode they decided Normandy was too wet and they wanted to head south. By the time we had got to the last one 10 days later, it seemed the world had gone mad. The agent said that he did not understand it. Normally he would have one maybe two British couples viewing over the summer and we were the third that week.
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Post by omegal on Feb 2, 2022 15:13:40 GMT 1
OK, Nigel Farrell was of course a producer of similar series. Nippy (Rezzer?) had a resto in London the restaurant they took over was in Laurec, Ardeche? Sadly Nigel died in 2011. Quite entertaining series but several people wondered how he managed as he didn't seem to have the know how of registering the business etc. The venture apparently cost him a lot of money.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 2, 2022 15:51:56 GMT 1
I noted the 07 number plate on the 2CV and thought, oh no. They started off looking in the North and I thought we were safe until at the end of the episode they decided Normandy was too wet and they wanted to head south. If I have interpreted that correctly then they had already purchased in the Ardeche and the property search starting in the North was just created for the filming like most everything in that series or so it seemed to me at the time. And back then I had no knowledge to rely on to call the scenes BS, just a gut feeling. I can well believe that it resulted in a flood of Brit enquiries. I like most of us must have been gradually influenced to some degree by the drip drip effect of what was portrayed on "A Place In The Sun" etc as much as I would deny it.
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Post by annabellespapa on Feb 2, 2022 16:39:37 GMT 1
Like PCPA (what does that stand for ?), we were looking in Normandy and Brittany and there were plenty of property programmes that featured both destinations in the late 90''s - 2000's, they don't appear to do it anymore and I wonder why, it seems to be anywhere but the North West of France.
The first house we bought was showed to us on a Friday and we made our offer in Francs, on the Monday it was the Euro and our offer was converted, we did rather well as we got €1.68 to the £.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 2, 2022 16:51:48 GMT 1
Like PCPA (what does that stand for ?), An acronym known only to myself and the forum owner. And that is the way it's going to stay.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 16:52:57 GMT 1
Past caring, prefer apathy.
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Post by woolybanana on Feb 2, 2022 16:53:52 GMT 1
Suggestions welcome though for what you might like it to mean!🙈🙉🙊
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Post by omegal on Feb 2, 2022 17:08:52 GMT 1
Prefer Chelsea Pas Arsenal
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Post by exile on Feb 2, 2022 17:15:56 GMT 1
I noted the 07 number plate on the 2CV and thought, oh no. They started off looking in the North and I thought we were safe until at the end of the episode they decided Normandy was too wet and they wanted to head south. If I have interpreted that correctly then they had already purchased in the Ardeche and the property search starting in the North was just created for the filming like most everything in that series or so it seemed to me at the time. And back then I had no knowledge to rely on to call the scenes BS, just a gut feeling. I can well believe that it resulted in a flood of Brit enquiries. I like most of us must have been gradually influenced to some degree by the drip drip effect of what was portrayed on "A Place In The Sun" etc as much as I would deny it. Having an inkling (but only an inkling) of how film series are put together, I am sure the whole series will have been shot, edited etc. before it was even put to the broadcasters for transmission - although the concept might well have been pre-approved. It is quite possible that they did indeed start in the North and then moved on or as you suggest it might just have been a padding episode to set the scene. Either way N&N will have been firmly entrenched in the Ardeche with the property renovated before the first episode went out.
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Post by woolybanana on Feb 2, 2022 17:22:27 GMT 1
PCPA= Pale Cobra Pours Avocaat
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Post by FFS on Feb 2, 2022 20:51:23 GMT 1
And if I want to reveal it, pcpa? You can always change your Display Name to something else.
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