Our Experience buying a house and learning a new life in Umbria, Italy
Casale Gelsomino, now renamed Casale Giulietta, has great structural bones but needs some updates, a few more critical than others.
This site is designed to share our experience across the home buying process, including taking ownership, renovations, and making friends.
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Ferragosto 2021
Ferragosto in Italy begins August 15th and all of Italy shuts down until the 2nd week in September. D&G connected us with their law firm who conducted a legal search to ensure there were…
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All of the Work Prior to an Offer
Summer 2021 We knew up front this wouldn’t be fast, but given we found our house at the end of June, it meant trying to get stuff done throughout the summer which wasn’t going…
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My Special & Unexpected Covid Project
May 2020 After writing many of my initial blog posts of the early days of buying a house in Italy, I realized that I hadn’t explained how I got to this point in the…
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