Stephanie Jarvis credits YouTube with saving her vast French chateau.She had bought the 40-room, 16th Century home back in 2005 after pooling resources with a friend.Such French castles were relatively cheap at the time, so between them they were able to buy one for £590,000, raising the money by selling both of their two-bedroom London flats.The plan was to turn the property – Chateau de Lalande, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of northern France – into a bed and breakfast, and hire it out for events.However, Ms Jarvis admits that she didn’t factor in just how expensive it would be to pay for the upkeep of such a huge, old building. “I didn’t realise how much money it would take to run,” says the 50-year-old.So, by the start of 2020, the chateau business had yet to make a profit. And then the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, and France went into lockdown.
Source: The people using YouTube to pay for their French chateau – BBC News
