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Christopher Summers (chrisss) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-04-18 19:04:00

Entry tags:

character: chris summers, character: pandora montgomery, character: richard summerby

RP: Site Visit
Who: Chris + anyone who'd like to join in
What: Chris brings a group of interested folks to an estate in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire for the first Orphanage site visit.
Where: Potential future home of the Fawley Home
When: Saturday April 18, afternoon
Rating: SFW.

It was a chilly but clear day, which was fine with Chris. He'd met a small group of interested parties at the office and then they'd portkey'd to an estate in Cambridge. The home had once belonged to an old man related to Adrian Pucey, but that was all Chris knew about the former owner - the witch realtor had said he had little to do with the land anymore, and the Pucey estate was next door (if you could call 12 acres away "next door"). At first sight, the place was huge but Chris knew that space - and multiple bedrooms - was more than necessary. The land was 20 acres total, with a small stream in the wood in the back, it was already zoned to put in a pool (which Chris thought was a nice bonus) and the main home - he didn't feel comfortable calling it a house, it was clearly much more than that - had 14 bedrooms. It had it's own private road and most of the estates in the area were owned by old magical families of varying sizes and histories. This home had caught his eye the most of all the ones he'd been researching.

"Well, here we are," the blond real estate agent said when they entered the house, having come up a gravel walk way through the main entrance. The foyer was lovely, though Chris immediately noted in his journal that there would need to be rugs put in because the gorgeous hardwood flooring - in a lovely cherry if he guessed right - wouldn't last long with children running all about. She brought them on a tour and soon Chris' notes had taken over half a dozen pages.

He looked to Dora at one point with a nearly hopeless look in his eyes - he loved the place but he was afraid there was something he was missing. "What do you think?" He asked her. He knew her the best of the group of travelers, and he trusted her opinion.

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the_richard
2015-04-21 05:07 am UTC (link)

It was the negotiator in him. The way he had trained himself to notice the little personal details of whoever he was trying to make a deal with. The way Dora and Chris spoke to one another, the way she touched his arm. So while he kept a pleasantly neutral look to his face, he was smiling quite a bit more inside as he looked over the house.

It was a nice enough old barn. Bigger inside than the Summerby estate outside of Boxworth, although with considerably less land. And since it was to be a place firmly rooted in the wizarding world, Chris wouldn't have the problems Rich and his father had getting modern electrical and plumbing into the old building they'd bought along the Thames. There were various charms and spells he knew of - even if he didn't know how to do them himself - that could be used to maintain, reinforce, even child-proof an old house like this. And a little creative use of wizarding space enhancements would make up for some of the smaller rooms.

Taking advantage of his height to see over the others in their little group, he stayed near the rear of the entourage and listened to what the realtor had to say. Dora knew his penchant for real estate; she could as his opinion if she was of a mind to.

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