{"id":3174,"date":"2010-03-22T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2014-11-06T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:53:59","slug":"must-a-carp-lake-be-cleaned-before-i-can-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/must-a-carp-lake-be-cleaned-before-i-can-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Must a carp lake be cleaned before I can buy it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I am thinking about buying a property with three lakes in the Mont De Blond area of France. The current owner says that it&#8217;s French law that the lakes have to be cleaned at a cost of 20,000 euros before he can sell the property. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Can you confirm if this is the case and how often would I as the purchaser be required to have the lakes cleaned?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em> Regards, James<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>*****************************<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hi James,<\/p>\n<p>I have never come across such a law. Please don&#8217;t assume this means that it&#8217;s not true though as French law can be complicated and rules can be different in each Department.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that your best course of action would be to make an appointment with your local water police (La Police de L&#8217;eau). They are part of the Department of Agriculture and can normally be found at the Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>Find out if the lakes are registered, whether they are considered open or closed waters and what category they are classed as. You could ask your Notaire to do this for you but don&#8217;t sign any Compromis until you are 100% sure how the rules will affect these particular lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you get the information yourself or via the Notaire, make sure it&#8217;s in writing from the Department and that you understand it fully.<\/p>\n<p>Hope that this helps, Martin Barker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thinking about buying a property with three lakes in the Mont De Blond area of France. The current owner says that it&#8217;s French law that the lakes have to be cleaned at a cost of 20,000 euros before he can sell the property. Can you confirm if this is the case and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying-a-carp-lake"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}