Unfortunately for many people the actual process can be very stressful, fraught with worry and financial concerns.
Not long after we bought our lovely old French farmhouse, some friends moved to France. Of course we were in a great position to help them, which we did. Then we helped some friends of those friends. They insisted on paying us for our time and trouble. On that occasion we accepted a few bottles of wine but before very long word was getting round and we had a thriving small business on our hands!
To be honest with you though, profitable though it is, it's not what we came here to do. We've got our own interests and the business meant we were spending more and more time sorting things out for other people and not doing our own thing. Rewarding work when you see the smile on someone's face when they're getting the keys to their new French home but, as I say, not what we came here to do.
Hence this ebook, The French Property Buyer's Guide (which incidentally ended up at sixty pages). It's all the things we could think of that you need to know when you buy a property in France, all in one convenient place. It's not full of fluff and property-speak, it's full of what we've learned.