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Your Own Campsite In France Don t
ou dream of running your is none of my business. I
own campsite in France? advertise houses, that’s all.
You're not the only one. As Just like with all the other
the Immogo webmaster, a site full requests, I just give the person
of property put up for sale by who is interested the coordinates
private owners, I do get a lot of of the seller, so that he can ask
requests in that direction. all his questions directly. But I
People mail me: “We are am groaning inside. I would want
interested in that house and to tell them: DON'T! In most
land. Would it be suitable for cases it is not funny at all to
starting a campsite?" And this start something completely
also happens with adverts for big different, if only because people
houses with lots of rooms: “Is usually don’t know the first
this object (I don’t know why a thing about the something
house would be called an ‘object’ different they have in mind. And
all of a sudden) be suitable for where did you get the idea that
a bed&breakfast? you would be happier as a tourist
entrepreneur in France?
There are some key-in-hand
campsites and tourist objects on I admit, running a campsite in
Immogo. In that case people France seems to be the perfect
always want to know about the job, at first sight. Quietly
annual turnover. “Because”, they talking to your clients on the
confide a bit huskily, “we will front porch of your cute little
be selling our house in the farmhouse, having dinner all
Netherlands and start all over together under the trees in the
again in France. Something evenings, while the children are
completely different.” playing about in the pool. But
reality is a bit different.
(Heavy sigh). Of course all this Guests arrive at the most
inconvenient times on your and fish the hairs out of the
private ground and always ask the shower. Including those
same stupid questions. Is it unrecognizable bits. Shampoo. You
alright to drink the water from hope.
the tap? Where is the next flee
market to be held? Do you have a Well, you can count on it: you
brochure with set-out walks? How will really be longing for the
do I get the sticky stuff from dull office job you had in your
the maple trees off my car? former life. And that is all for
Nja-nja-nja-nja... You don’t have the better, because it is
time to have dinner with them, difficult to make any profit out
because there is all the cooking, of a campsite in particular a
serving an washing up to do. They small one. Those few euro per
happily break all your stuff (and tent per day won’t make a rich
don’t leave their names, of man of you. So you will have to
course), their spoilt offspring find additional sources of
are screaming all day long and income, like meals and drinks.
the ones peeing about happily are And as soon as you do that in a
the drunken fathers, who serious way, the food hygiene
preferably choose your cute clay control will pay you a visit.
wall behind the kitchen to do Your kitchen has to meet the
this, thus slowly changing it highest hygiene standards. You
into a smelly, muddy thing. have to prove that the cold chain
is respected from supermarket to
Apart from that you have to get frying pan. You have to take
up very early each morning, samples of all the food you
before the first guest wakes up, prepare, in order to be able to
to clean out the toilet area with prove that your guest's dysentery
a hose, a floor cloth and Lysol, (get out the Lysol) is due to Le
scrub the toilets while gagging Toque Blanc and not your terrace.
With all the investments that in that position. Of course I
implies. So there is a big chance hope that you too through
that your campsite will go broke Immogo or not will realise your
within two or three years and you dream in France for a perfect and
- broke but much richer in maple-free campsite, where all
experience - will go back home to the obstacles you might meet will
Holland. With your head high, of be overcome without pain and
course. Because at least YOU where you will be very happy. But
tried. And all the other slaves still, if it doesn’t work - don’t
of the office can't claim to forget you can always put your
that! campsite up for sale again with
me, on Immogo. For I do get a lot
Well, this is of course a worse of requests in that sense.
case scenario. Not everybody is
About the Author:
Gregor Hakkenberg is a Dutchman living in France. He has a real estate site - http://www.immogo.com - where owners can sell their French property without going through an estate agency. His opinions are vented in several frank articles on the special site http://www.living-in-france.info
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