Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Electricity


Received a bill from the EDF last night, seems they have read the meter and I was charged 174 Euros for my electricity. No big deal until I remembered I am paying 90 Euro's per month and the EDF now Owe me nearly 700 Euro's I wonder If I can get that back? or just stop paying them for a bit!

Quick trip to the bank


Saturday was a long day, after trying to arrange an appointment with the bank to sign the loan agreement I received an email on Friday evening with a very official looking invite to a meeting at 11:00 o'clock on Saturday.
This meant getting the whole family up and out of the house by 7 for a 4 hour drive down to Morzine for a half hour meeting where my wife and I signed the required document multiple times and then a four hour drive home again!
The kids got to watch too much TV in the car and I just got really tired!

The bank requires a "cooling off" period so the document will not actually get sent to head office until the 27th, then the notaire is notified and I need to arrange a meeting with him to sign the guarantee. This probably means another long day sometime the beginning of October.

My head is full of shopping lists, I cant wait to see how fast I can spend 50,000 Euros!

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Paperwork, paperwork


Finally got the document from the bank that was wrong, some health questionnaire. Received it last night along with a strange letter from the electrical supplier EDF. As far as I can understand it the temporary electricity supply I have has expired and I can only renew it for three months. That would make things difficult to say the least. Need to get some one else's opinion.