Dreams Broken

It has been a while since I wrote on here this will put that straight.We finished our work in the south of france to go up to the centre and sign for our house.When we arrived we discovered that the house had been broken into they had stolen everything the kitchen the wall lights the furniture the electric consumer unit and the even took the stair case B......s we were heart broken and as the plan was to work there in the summer and leave it locked up in the winter we felt that we could not dare leave it. So with great reluctance we pulled out of the sale.This is not normally allowed in France but we had added a clause to the contract (to protect us in case there was more roof damage) this clause said we would only accept the house in the same condition as we seen it.As this was not the case we pulled out and only lost the notary fees about 150 euros.The seller did offer to reduce the price but we could not risk that when we were away it would be ransacked again.