How to Find a Paris Apartment that is Right for You and Your Budget.

1. Work out a clear idea of your minimum requirements and price range. Price will be largely a function of location, size, condition, and season. 

  v      Location – If you aren’t familiar with Paris arrondisements, go online or get a Paris guidebook with maps and descriptions of these districts. What kind of neighborhood calls to you? Small shops and crooked streets or large department stores? Centrally located or out near one of the large parks where you can run?
  v      Size - If you're not used to thinking in terms of square meters, measure some rooms where you presently live, and convert to square meters. How many of you will be sharing?  Please realize that more than one bathroom is a rarity.
  v      Season – Many Paris apartment owners lower their rates between November and March, perhaps excluding holidays.  Others offer lower rates in August, because that is when they leave town on vacation.
 
2. Tips from other sources
  v      eHow - Basic steps (very abbreviated!) on how to go about finding and renting an apartment in Paris. www.ehow.com/how_5069792_rent-vacation-apartment-paris.html
  v      www.flat-hunter.com – These folks offer a service that takes you every step of the way, mostly for people interested in higher end and luxury apartments, and for six months or several years.


How to Request a Check Out

1.       Contact me by email, using the Request Check Our form. List the websites of the apartments you would like to have checked out.  Tell me a little about your concerns and priorities.

2.       Either myself or another member of the team will get back to you, and if you would like to discuss by phone, we'll arrange for a time to call you (US or Canada only). Either by phone or by email, we'll go over our checklist and your concerns. At this time,  a $5 non-refundable fee per apartment is due, to be applied toward the CheckOut report(s).

3.       It typically takes about 7-10 days to complete one CheckOut, and approximately 2 weeks for two or three CheckOuts, because of the logistics of contacting the apartment owners, property managers, or rental agents and arranging suitable dates and times.  They often need to notify current tenants.

4.    Immediately upon receipt of payment, we email you the report(s) and photos.  There is no additional charge if you would like us to call and discuss our report. 

How to Pay our Ridiculously Modest Fee of $30 per Apartment Visit
1.       If you do not already have a PayPal account, you will need to open one.  (PayPal is the payment and transaction processor for eBay, and is the most widely used, secure payment processor on the Internet.)

2.       After we have received your request and replied, a $5 nonrefundable fee per apartment is due, payable via PayPal.

3.       We will contact you when your reports are ready to be emailed, and PayPal will send you an invoice for the balance of the fees.  There is no charge for any apartment that we were unable to see and report on.  We will let you know what happened.  If an owner is non-cooperative and does not want us to see the apartment, this is good information!


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NOTE:  There is no additional charge for the initial phone call and the final call, if desired,  to discuss the findings, US and Canada only.  We are happy to receive calls from other locations, but cannot initiate them.