Now that the weather has warmed up and Easter has passed, we've been spending some time viewing properties and building plots for our new home. We have a good feel for The West Highlands, Stirling and Perthshire now, and are leaning towards the latter. There are some really good places around there, like Pitlochry, Aberfeldy and Dunkeld, as well as some nice big moontaaigns. We're also going to look around the Cairngorms over the summer.
Of course, finding a house is coupled with finding a site for the cafe business. Last weekend we looked a a place in Aberfeldy. Great location right in the middle of the town square with a big pavement just ripe for a bit of outdoor cafe culture.
Rather than lease, we're hoping now to find a place that we could buy. There was a leak from the upstairs flat recently in this one, which would help us negotiate the sale price downwards. But the leak was still dripping, which is a big concern when it's coming from somebody elses property (we wouldn't own the flat) and we would have no control over it. There are also some issues regarding the positioning of the stairs up to the upstairs flat... i.e. slap bang in the centre of our shop frontage! Who's silly idea was that?
So we've talked briefly, and it's not looking like a good option... certainly not to me. We'll ask a few more questions just in case though.
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