Not sure why, but once again we are looking for a house to buy and renovate, this time in Europe, Italy or Croatia. Inspired by Frances Mays and her passion for travel, art and crumbling estates, we are also looking for a place to settle in during the summers and autumns, always on the hunt, even with troubles at home upstate New York, mostly an aging couple of parents with huge health issues as well as two brothers going through health nightmares, we nevertheless keep moving in the direction of that house under the Sun! Here is a link to one I found today:
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Is this a house we could buy and live in?
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