we are in the European Union so we can travel and buy real estate almost like citizens of a given country. yes, there is a 90-day rule, but I don't think anyone enforces it when you travel by your own means of transport (how would they know how long you are here? I don’t know). We never stay for 90 days because we have constant errands in Poland. However, in the future we would like to be residents or even citizens. If you’re the US citizen I guess it’s harder :(

Yes, you must report all “corrections” to the city hall but this is what our ingegnere (architect) does. When making new plans for a building, he immediately reports everything where it should be. For example another building has been in the process of being planned since around February 2024 and will probably not be ready until September 2024 (plans and permits)

Thank you very much! Please tell me what do you mean by white genome? Can you tag the specific time in video where you see it?

this is our advantage and disadvantage - we like pay attention to details🫣

Thank you! Our goal is to publish every week but it’s a real-time renovation so sometimes there is a lot of work but not that interesting for the audience. We know that when we finally move into this house we will have more possibilities to organise work and recording/editing ❤️

For sure! For a while it will serve us and then our guests ❤️

Thank you! We would like to open rentals in 2025, but I think it will be more like 2026. Stay tuned!😊

Thank you for your comment. The main house is treated as a house where you can live in so it will be restored in the way you think - it’s mandatory. The rest of the buildings are/were barns so they “just” need to look like the houses in the neighbourhood and have equal building area as before renovation. We bought this property especially because of the view/location and if any building is already on the property you receive the confirmation that you can renovate/restore it so there is no problem with the building. To be honest we didn’t even check the empty properties (there is not many of them) because this one met our needs

@@borgobaroti I wondered how much red tape you had to go through to do the work. I’m glad the out buildings weren’t protected bc you were able to salvage & reuse the stone from buildings that would cost more to try to save & wouldn’t ever be as sound.

@@chrissyfrancis8952 yes! Restoring of the building (like a main house) would cost more for sure at least because of the size of the house and the time you have to spend to restore every piece of the wall. We’re glad that most of red tape is completed by our architect - without him it would be taking much longer!

@@borgobaroti Having an architect from the area, who knows & follows all the strict regulations of historic preservation, will save you so much time, money & grief. The last thing you’d want to do is have to remove a structure after it’s finished. Italy has amazing craftsmen who still use old world techniques bc of the preservation standards. They’re not just saving the historical landscape, they’re saving the craftsmanship techniques that built Tuscany. I love it. We don’t have 300 year old structures in America. Ironically some of our oldest structures are barns built by German immigrants. The old growth beams in those barns are highly sought after, bc all the several 100 year old trees were used to build the new country.

We use drone to help viewers locate in which part of a property we do current work. If we can we always mix it with close up of the work (if it’s something important) but we don’t want to interrupt our construction team every 5 min and stand with the camera in front of them. If we do task by ourselves you can see that we use camera more than drone. It depends on an episode you watch. Anyway, thank you for your feedback, we always appreciate it 🙂

We answered this question in one of the comments below 🙂

Each room has a door (standard or balcony)

Thank you! We really want to make it lasts for years in a good condition

Thank you. We really like good quality and things that last for years

in the previous episode we mentioned that we were making microcement for the first time, but here are 2 points that convinced us to try this method. 1) there are no joints in the floor and wall (as fugues in the floor between tiles) so it should be easier to clean, especially in the bathroom and kitchen. 2) This structure reminds us of summer houses in Spain or old walls in Italy. The color should be more beige but in our case it depends on how the light comes to the house. ps. This house will be rented out sooner or later, so keeping it easily clean between guests is important to us

When you type “MEZZANE VECCHIE” in Google you will find them 😊

@@borgobaroti, thank you for your reply. I understand that this translation means, "old bricks" in English. However, I was looking for what they are called new in Italian. Can you assist with what they are called?

@@skibird7733 unfortunately I don’t know any other name, but when you type Mezzane Vecchie or mezzane toscani there are plenty of Italian websites translated to English so it’s usually translated to Tuscan roof tiles, nothing more ☹️

Thank you, we try to create a beautiful space for our guests and ourselves 😊

we do many things ourselves to save money for important things that need to be done correctly from the beginning to last for years

Yes and I admire your work ethics keep up the good work

We won’t plant directly on an area where pipes are but above, in a place where you can see one olive tree already

Thank you! We really appreciate your words! Yes, from the beginning we knew what we’re doing but without our team we couldn’t do it that fast and probably that good ❤️ we want to create a beautiful space for ourselves and our future guests