First things first, the question you need to request yourself at the very beginning, is which kind of rent apartment Paris you are looking for, a furnished or a non-furnished one. If you are staying here for a few months in Paris, you can decide going for a furnished accommodation, as in this way you do not have to purchase anything, no headache, and you just need to settle yourself there. However, if the endurance is long, even a couple of years, unfurnished apartment may be much more economic, as you can furnish your flat relying on your budget, easily from a market of used things, and may trade them off while leaving Paris to somebody else.

There exist two means to rent an accommodation in Paris, the 'do-it-yourself' method, and the 'agency' way for those who are wealthy enough to pay a month of rent extra to the agency for their service. You must select one of these methods to get Paris apartment.

Of course, the company method is much simpler. The only thing you have to do is to identify the English speaking agency that will have office workers with that minimum English to understand what kind of accommodation you require. First of all you have to find in yellow pages the part “immobiliers” (French translation for real property) and then call in the agencies that you will observe there. You can begin with the phrase 'Bonjour, parlez vous anglais?' ('Bojho, parley voo angley') question which means 'Good day, do you speak English' and if the reply is positive, start talking business. Remember that there may be 2 terms to make a payment for Paris short term apartments: half of a month's and full month term.

For the 'do-it-yourself' method, believe me, it can also be as easy as the other one. But the diversity is that due to this way you will save much more money than in preceding case. The difficulty what you might have here is to converse with the landlords. Here, you require an assistance of somebody who is local resident here, it may be either one of your friends or a man that you have met on the web, for instance. In the case when you don't have such opportunity, the quantity of the accommodations for you to call on will surely lessen. But do not despair you will have a great amount of possibilities to find an English speaking lessor. And bear in mind that a great number of Paris landlords prefer to give their rooms to people who are native English speakers.

You can start your search from the place that is called the “American church of Paris”. This is the area where you will meet a great number of English speaking people and other English resources. Buy a magazine “FUSAC” that may be seen near the main gate of the church. (It is the best English speaking resource that you may find in France). One more way for people who would like to receive short term rentals Paris is a internet search.