How to find a rental home in Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Finding a rental property in Paris can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
But imagine there are hundreds of other people looking for that needle too. And now imagine that when you find the needle, the needle's owner is very likely to ask you for a large amount of money and documents before you'll be allowed to have it.
You need to prepared, and I mean really prepared.
For this week's podcast episode, you'll hear about how gruelling the whole affair can be from the perspective of a man who had his own tricky journey, Australian entrepreneur Mitch Pascoe.
He sent in 150 applications and was once asked for three years' rent up front before he finally secured a home.
And check in on the website here for the golden rules of renting from property consultant Adrian Leeds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's Oliver G here with the Eiffel Tower. This week, we're talking about a site of Paris that maybe as a tourist you've never considered, but is a very strong reality for a lot of the people who end up living here. We're talking about rental apartments in Paris, how to do it, the struggles, the issues, the traps, the pitfalls. We're talking about bribery, forgery. And in the studio, we've got |
| 0:21.5 | Mitch Pascoe, an entrepreneur from Australia who has gone through the struggle, just as I have |
| 0:26.1 | and lovely Lena, who's also in the studio in some kind of producer role today. But you're going |
| 0:30.7 | to be getting some tips and hopefully some advice that you can use if you ever choose to rent |
| 0:35.2 | an apartment in the city of love. Let's get into it. |
| 0:42.7 | Glass of water. Do you think I should bring that one back? Absolutely. It's catchy, isn't it? |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah. I sing it every time your podcast comes on. I know, wrong one. There you go. |
| 0:54.5 | You have just heard the voice of Mitch Pasco, an entrepreneur in Paris. |
| 0:59.6 | And already jumping in was the laughter from lovely Lena who's crashed the studio today. |
| 1:03.3 | Hi, guys. |
| 1:04.2 | Sorry, I couldn't keep away. |
| 1:05.8 | Hello, Mitch. |
| 1:06.7 | Good, thanks. |
| 1:08.2 | What's, am I right so far? |
| 1:10.1 | You're a young entrepreneur with an Australian accent. |
| 1:13.6 | It's very much an Australian accent. |
| 1:15.0 | Probably a bit more posh than the usual Sydney and Melbourne accents. |
| 1:18.0 | Is that what people say? |
| 1:19.0 | I do. |
| 1:19.7 | Talking from Adelaide, we're a bit more. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, not as posh as such, a bit more, less Australian. |
| 1:25.2 | Do people, do Parisians guess your accent when you meet them? |
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