The Topic for Those Individuals who Require Accommodation in Paris August 14, 2008
First of all you need to settle down one query, which apartment rental in Paris will be the most appropriate for you, furnished or unfurnished one. Look at the problem from a few points. If you would like to stay there for several months it is better for you to rent a furnished apartment, because it will ease your headache about buying different objects in your new flat and you will be vacant to settle yourself in a new place of living. However, if the endurance is long, even several years, unfurnished accommodation may be much more economical, as you may furnish your apartment relying on your budget, easily from a market of used things, and may sell them off while leaving Paris to someone else.
So, you have got only 2 ways to find an apartments in France, they are: the “do-it-yourself” way and the “agency” method. But bear in mind that choosing the second method you should pay an additional month rent for the agency services. You should pick out 1 of these methods to get Paris apartment.
The simplest way is to call for an agency. You should find an agency with English speaking office workers who will know the language well enough for you to speak about the accommodation you require. First of all you are to find in yellow pages the section “immobiliers” (French notion for real estate) and then phone in the companies that you will observe there. You may start with the phrase 'Bonjour, parlez vous anglais?' ('Bojho, parley voo angley') question that stands for 'Good day, do you speak English' and if the answer is affirmative, start talking business. Remember that there can be 2 terms to pay for Paris short term accommodation: half of a month's and full month term.
For the 'do-it-yourself' ones, trust me, it may also be as simple as another one. But the diversity is that due to this way you will save much more funds than in preceding case. The main difficulty here is in the situation that you should converse with landlords. Here, you require a help of somebody who is local here, it may be either one of your friends or a person that you have met on the internet, for instance. If you cannot, then of course you are limiting the number of apartments that you may visit