House & renovations

This, but for breakfast.   It’s so sad to see people’s Christmas travel plans disrupted by the weather. We had our share of stresses when we went to Bulgaria at the beginning of December, right in the middle of the first heavy lot of snow. But at least we...

  Life as a homeowner goes on much the same as before. We can’t afford to do any work on the house for a few months and won’t be going back to Bulgaria until April at the earliest. So, for now, it’s back to business as usual: working, saving, working, saving,...

That’s right, it all turned out fine in the end. We managed to make it to Heathrow (that was quite an adventure in itself – more details to follow later), our back-up BA flight went ahead, I had £12k in cash strapped under my top(!), and the house transaction...

Some proper Bulgarian snow…   Sorry readers for the lack of updates lately – it’s been a hectic week. Great news: We have an appointment with the notary in Bulgaria for Friday morning – that’s this Friday 3rd December. This is the formal completion...

  Boris The Lawyer has confirmed the paperwork is all okay so now we just need to find a date to complete the sale. Simples? Well no, not when you need to find a date that works for us, the lawyer, the estate agent, the notary and the vendors to all get...

A quick update: just had an email from Boris The Lawyer to confirm that our company has been registered. It’s great news. It means that Boris can now start preparing the paperwork for the company to purchase the house. We now have to sign another letter of...

  It’s been a while since we posted anything about the house, mainly because not much is happening right now. The lawyer is working on setting up our company and we won’t complete on the house sale until that is done. It usually takes about four weeks to...

Some cheeky sightseeing.   We are now back in Sofia to set up our business. Boris the lawyer is unfortunately stuck travelling back from Burgas so we instead deal with his colleague Petya, who looks after us very well. So we go to their office where a mountain...

Our view, while we deliberated.   So, we have to come up with a name for our Bulgarian company (as foreigners, we have to register a company to purchase the house and its land). We have been advised to make the name pretty obscure to ensure it is not in use...

  After three visits, a full and detailed structural appraisal (!) by Nachko Nachko man, and two days of deliberation, we are ready to make an offer on our beautiful pink house. The asking price is €13,500 – a snip you would think but it is €3,000 more than we...