Sometimes Good Things Fall Apart – The House Hunt Continues
Julie WhitmarshContributor blog post by Vaucluse Dreamer:
When our first efforts at buying a house in France fell apart, just before signing the Compromis de Vente, we were absolutely gutted and it would have been very easy to just give up and walk away. We felt though, that we had no other option, but to quickly dust ourselves down and get back to the hunt. Lots of friends contacted us to say that it had probably happened for a reason and it just meant that something better was waiting for us..
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