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First of all you need to determine 1 question, which apartment for rent Paris will be the most suitable for you, furnished or unfurnished one. If you are remaining here for several months in France, you can determine going for a furnished accommodation, as in this way you do not need to buy anything, no headache, and you just require to install yourself there. Nevertheless, if the endurance is long, even several years, unfurnished apartment may be much more economic, as you may furnish your apartment relying on your budget, easily from a market of used things, and can trade them off while dwelling Paris to somebody else.

So, you have only 2 ways to look for an accommodation in Paris, they are: the “do-it-yourself” way and the “agency” method. But remember that selecting the second way you should pay an additional month rent for the agency services. You are to select 1 of these methods to get apartments Paris short term.

The company method is easier, you just need to look for some English speaking agencies, and you have lots of service providers who talk that minimum English to communicate with you, at least enough to rent you a room. Do some search in the net, take the yellow pages, and find the section 'immobiliers' (French notion for real estate) and start phoning them. After you have phoned to a company you have to say 'Bonjour, parlez vous anglais?' ('Bojho, parley voo angley') that means “Good day, do you speak English”. And if the reply is affirmative, you may say what you need. Remember that there may be two terms to make a payment for Paris short term apartments: half of a month's and full month term.

The next “do-it-yourself” way can be the similar easy as the preceding one. But the diversity is that due to this way you will save much more money than in preceding situation. The main problem here is in the case that you should converse with landlords. Here, you require a help of somebody who is local resident here, it can be either one of your acquaintances or a person that you have met on the web, for instance. If you do not have such a person you will have to find an English speaking lessor that will certainly decrease the number of the apartments that you will call on, but don't be afraid you will find such people. And remember that a large number of French landlords prefer to give their accommodations to people who are native English speakers.

Your search may begin with the American church of Paris, a great area to meet other English speaking individuals and for other English resources. Start by picking up the magazine 'FUSAC', you may find it just near the main gate. (It is the greatest English speaking resource for Englishmen and Americans in Paris). And cheap apartments Paris can be also receive with the help of web sites.