A dream house in France for $100 ! - What's this all about ?

What's this all about ?

Basically all you have to do is join our DreamHouseinFrance Club which then entitles you to take part in a free-entry competition in which the prizes are TEN - yes 10 - fantastic apartments/town houses in the south of France near the beautiful Pyrenees mountains. Read our blogs HERE

No, we're not joking !

This has got to be a scam - and not even a very subtle one at that - I hear you cry!

Please, just read on ...

Over last weekend I was sitting browsing my Sunday Times and chanced upon a piece about a hard up student from Wiltshire in the UK, called Alex Tew, who decided 3 months ago to launch a website called milliondollarhomepage.com to sell advertising at $1 per pixel to help finance his studies at university.

Cuckoo Land stuff, huh ? Probably pissed out of his brain one night, out on the town with his mates - but what the hell - he hadn't come up with any other bright ideas to generate some cash so why not give this one a try.

Well, the staggering thing is that this idea has so far raised this very smart 21 year old nearly $900,000 in under four months. He has almost completed his target to sell 1,000,000 pixels on his home page. All of which should serve as a timely reminder to cynical old, would-be internet entrepreneurs like me - who've been searching in vain for years for just such an internet holy grail - that the internet is still a very powerful medium !

So after I had digested this for an hour or two - silently cursing this guy's luck/ingenuity/bright idea - I had an equally hare-brained idea !

Like many people in Britain, I find the idea of having a second home in France, very appealing. I particularly love the Pyrenees area in the far south west of France. This area is now very accessible from most major airports in Europe and has lots of plus points:

For a start it's easy and cheap to get to - typically only £50 return from Gatwick to Toulouse;
It's not crowded;
The scenery is spectacular;
Food and booze are also wonderful and cheap too;
Property is still cheap when compared with the UK but it represents a good investment opportunity because prices are rising rapidly - probably because we Brits are buying it up fast;
There's lots to do - there's walking, cycling, fishing, skiing and a whole host of other healthy pursuits.

So why not buy something ?

Unfortunately not everyone has the wherewithall to do so.

Now, when I was out in the Pyrenees mountains recently I started to look around for properties in the Hautes Pyrenees region - a very beautiful part of south-west France - which is only about an hour and a half's drive from Toulouse. I collected some agents' details and went to view a few smaller properties - but also visited a massive old chateau-style building which has been empty for nearly 3 years and was previously used as a children's holiday centre.

Outline planning consent exists to convert this to residential use and it could easily be renovated and divided into 10 or more large 3/4 bedroom town houses or apartments - but it is a large project requiring a lot more money than I have access to. However it would be a fantastic opportunity to own a really beautiful property with spectacular mountain views. See the pictures on our website: http://www.adreamhouseinfrance.com/gallery/gallery.html

A great idea - but not very practical because I'd need to win the Lottery to make it happen.

But then I got to thinking about how I might be able to make this project happen using the internet.

So here's what I've come up with:

I have decided to form a DreamHomeinFrance Club. Every member pays $100 to join for a 5 year period. One of the benefits of membership (there will be others - which I will go into later) will be the opportunity to take part in our free-entry competition to win one of 10 beautiful houses from the development project I have outlined above. Simple enough - and it stands a great chance of success - if we can just get enough people to take part - and the odds are far, far better than wasting money on the National Lottery, the Pools or Scratchcards.

Each year, though, many of us spend far, far more than $100 on these everyday gambling pursuits - with absolutely no hope of success whatsoever !

The project that I have outlined here on adreamahouseinfrance.com requires 1.5 million US Dollars to get underway and 4 million US Dollars to complete in full. On completion, each of the 10 properties, that result, will be worth between $300,000 and $500,000 each - at current market values - but in this part of Europe the property prices are rising rapidly.

So this is a fantastic chance to own a really valuable asset. And you have ten separate chances of winning one of these fabulous properties - which cuts the odds down to around 3,000 to 1 - compared with a massive 14 million to 1 for winning the Main UK Lotto.

At the moment, $100 converts to about £68 (Pounds Sterling) - about the same as you'd spend going out for meal with your wife or on a tank of petrol for a medium sized car. But if my scheme works, and I have absolutely no doubt that it will - a $100 investment will change the life of ten families in a spectacular way.

But let me be straight with you now - I have no guarantees whatsoever to offer you for any of this - I just ask you to take the idea at face value and believe in my/your dream. I have consulted several local builders, developers and professional advisers and I am very confident that I can make this scheme happen - and dramatically change the lives of for ten families - so just watch this space!

And what do I get out of it ? Well, there is actually enough space in the main shell of the chateau building for me to have a house too.

And what if we don't raise enough from memberships to get the thing off the ground, beyond stage 1 ? No, I will not pocket the money and run ! I will either down-size the project and complete the scheme on a smaller scale or donate the membership proceeds to my favourite charity - St Catherine's Hospice.

I have previously donated proceeds from a sponsored bike ride (The 2003 Etape du Tour from Pau to Bayonne - which as it happens was held in the Pyrenees too, by the way) and my wife Gisela has worked as a volunteer for more than five years for this very worthy charity that provides palliative care for terminally ill cancer patients in Sussex. See this link for details: http://www.stch.co.uk .

So your $100, in the worst-case scenario, will not disappear into a black hole - it will go to a very worthy cause, helping cancer sufferers.

On the other hand, the best-case scenario is that you could be one of ten lucky winners who will end up with a $400,000 Dream House in an idyllic mountain location in south-west France. This is definitely not a scam - it's a genuine opportunity to change your life in a very spactacular way !

Just look at these pictures of the surrounding countryside - the scenery is spectacular. The picture below is the view from the front garden of the property.

You can see more photos of the site and surrounding area by clicking this link: http://www.adreamhouseinfrance.com/gallery/gallery.html

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