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Perhaps you could consider the French system called VMC (ventilation mechanic controlée) used for many years in new build. It comprises low output permanent ventilation, usually in the roof space, with very small extract grills in each room connected to flexible tubing and an almost silent extract f...

20% seems high to me but I don't know the rules when you are non resident. All our income is in France and declared here so the rental income is just added to the rest and at present we are taxed at around 4% on the total income. Regarding the monthly tax payments, I answered that on your other post...

This will be the social charges on the income you declare which is separate from tax on the revenue. We get this deducted on the 15th of each month except when the 15th is at the weekend when the deduction is a day or two later.

Do you not take a security deposit? We do with a clause in the booking conditions that it will be returned within one week of departure after the property has been checked. In such a case we would have made a deduction, not only for the missing items but also extra cleaning due to the dog as she did...

I haven't tried Amivac but for anyone with a French property, www.france-voyage.com works for us and gives us about half of our enquiries and subsequent bookings. Current cost 48€ per year and the advert is translated by them into 9 languages including Chinese and Japanese.

Is it a Europe wide problem concerning the lack of bookings? After Pengman (in Dorset) and Casscat (in Spain) referring to the lack of bookings, we are also very short of bookings for our naturist beach appartment on the Mediterranean coast near Perpignan in France. In earlier years July and August ...

I will be interested to know how French property owners are doing this year for enquiries. I think this year we have had the lowest number of enquiries for the last 10 years. Any theories as to why this should be?

We use France-voyage.com from which we receive around half of our bookings. Subscription based, very reasonable (42€ one year, 78€ 2 years). We did our advert in French but they translate into 8 other languages. we have had bookings from Dutch, German, Italian, French and recently American (from Flo...

To me it all dépends on whether you receive the payment or not. If not, it is another scenario and I can add my experience to the discussion. Let us know.

We are in France, so perhaps not entirely similar circumstances, but for 10 years, until last year, we were living 400km (4 hours on mostly motorway) from our beach rental property. Now we have moved and are 20 minutes away. We decided from the start to deal with changeovers ourselves and do the 800...

OK, I see where you are coming from. Two considerations in my mind : 1. Would a higher tax de séjour, if you are not classified, put off a potential guest? Possibly not in Nice which I suppose attracts better off guests. 2. A good classification (e.g. 2 or 3 star) could perhaps be an advantage and w...

Might be a bit complicated, but I have a flat in Nice, rentable May to October, placed with an agency (interhome/HHD). They keep bugging me to pay to get my flat classified (about 200 euros) claiming taxes can be as high as 4 euros pp per night if I don't. My thought is that as a UK resident and ta...

[quote="chrishax Whether they charge a premium for non main homes or don't give discounts for second homes is a moot point of wordology, but there are premiums taxed for homes which are not main homes, even if in my case they would be occupiable all year round.[/quote] Difficult to see where yo...

If your principal residence is not in France, whatever nationality you are, you cannot claim any of the tax reductions on taxe d'habitation for your second home(s) in France. That is made clear in one of the official sources posted by Anno. Also if your principal residence is in France as I mention...

As a UK non-French-domicile with a holiday home in France, I am subject to two sets of high property taxes (city and national I think), and yet I am not allowed to travel there at the moment, and am newly constricted to 90 days out of a rolling 180. In that case, where I am denied practical usage b...