moving a chateaux?

ummm

 

My company's speciality is moving buildings from one country to another. We are well versed in the code requirements, as well as customs, overseas shipping, and the actual " clearing of the structure" if you know what I mean.
I would be happy to assist in this move. I think your wife would be tickled pink when you present her with her very own "old world dwelling" properly placed on a parcel of your choice. There is just nothing like the real thing is there?

 

Well I'll be damned!

 

Only person I know that could handle something of this magnitude is Gentry.

If the G-man can't do it can't be done. Period.

 

Gentrification (noun) : the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents; Moving a chateaux from France to California.

 

Isn't this what Gary Green did? Someone ask Bruce I think he just had lunch with Gary the other day.

 

Im on the phone with PeterS and he says

 

I think you need to seek a new wife, it might be easier.

Or move to Havasu and call it even.

C.
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OK, how much would that cost? A lot more than its worth Im thinking....

Edit: Why dont you just build a replica? Its not cool with cars....but houses could pass I guess

 

It's too late. He's whipped.

 

Vere fine, Havayu?

 

This is clearly a cheap replica nothing more than a " kit bridge". Only a professional can easily see these things!!!

 

Dismantling and moving old houses and castles piece by piece to America from England or France, particularly, was done mostly in the late 19th century on into the roaring twenties, before fed income taxes and the depression cut available funds for big private building projects.

I think the old London Bridge was moved to Arizona or something, and I've heard of houses being moved transatlantic in the last 20 years but don't remember the instances.

 

I'm currently putting together a group of investors to try and move the Kremlin from Red Square to Boston to turn it into a video arcade and restaurant like Dave & Busters. I had a Russian customer default on a debt and I got it repo'ed.

 

As apposed to moving a stucture, why not replicate a Chateaux in California?

 

Where would the fun be in that?

 

What kind of interest would that draw as a topic of discussion?

 

I want in on that deal!

 

I knew I couldn't fool you! If anyone wants to buy the molds off me I'll be happy to cut you a deal. I just bought a cage to house my Sasquatch and could use the room in the garage for training (Ultimate Fighting Championship).

C.

 

Why do you think houses have hitches on'em???

 

Now you're being silly.. a Chateaux don't float!

C.

 

Man, if we were playing Balderdash, I would vote for this one. It sounds so real.

 

Apparently Prestige Property Group UK agrees w/ your wife. "A French chateau represents stunning value for money". It does look like you get a lot of house and property for a few hundred thousand Euro's.

http://www.prestigeproperty.co.uk/search_result.asp?Country=France&Type=Chateau&sortby=euros&SortType=Asc&searchtype=Keyword&StartingPoint=0&gridm=no&next=1&interval=150

The problem is you're basically paying for a lot of land and an old stone house, and all your wife really wants is the rocks and the plans. You'll have to pay to tear it apart while documenting fully. Pack and ship many tens of thousands of pounds. Then reconstruct it on site. This has to cost a lot more than a reproduction with new materials. Further, these chateaus were meant to sit on 10's of acres of land, so they won't look right unless you get at least a few acres to site them. Anywhere close to suburban Norcal and you could be talking several $M for land. If you actually were able to afford it, you couldn't possibly be that dumb to do this.

I suggest you buy a case of Chateau Haut-Brion, as the cheapest way of getting a French Chateau in California, and give your wife the wine instead.