As the type of person who likes to do her research, I%26#39;ve been working for the past several weeks on finding an apartment to rent in Paris. My husband and I will be spending a week there in August 2007.
We%26#39;ve narrowed down our choices and our top pick is a one bedroom apartment in the 6e at 7 rue des Quatre Vents. We found this apartment on Vacation Home Rentals. It is #19436. The website is a resource for individual owners to post their properties for rental. (vacationhomerentals.com/vacation-rentals/Par…)
However, despite my searches on Venere, slowtrav.com, and the forms on TA, I%26#39;ve not been able to find a single review. I%26#39;m a little nervous about renting from an individual without any references/reviews to back me up. So far the owner has been very helpful and communicative. I have no specific reason to worry other than the fact this will be our first European trip and our first vacation apartment rental.
Does anyone have any information on this apartment, owner, or even neighborhood? Any information and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Have never rented an apartment in Paris. However, I am also a regular visitor to the Virtual Tourist boards and noted a great Paris page by a guy that goes by the moniker Daveq. His page and his recommendations are really, really good! They helped me considerably for my trip June %26#39;06. I have posted his link below, he invites others to contact him for resources regarding finding apartments.
Bon Voyage!
members.virtualtourist.com/m/48d21/18308/3/
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Thanks sdjeff4sc! I will take a look at his page and see what he might have to say on the subject.
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I have held off for quite sometime to post our review of this apartment. The reason for my delay is I was hoping to receive our refund of our security deposit of 200 Euros before I gave my honest remarks on our experience here. However, since it has been almost nine months since we left the apartment in great condition and we have STILL NOT received our refund, I have lost hope and no longer feel the need to hold back. I%26#39;m assuming we are out this money and will have to chalk it up to a lesson learned.
Since it appears this unit is no longer available for rent, I won%26#39;t discuss its attributes - which we found lacking. However, I will encourage any future renter to NEVER rent from this agency or our particular agent, Jeanette Coussin.
Jeanette Coussin has proven herself to be unreliable, dishonest, and a poor manager of finances. We have been repeatedly promised our refund, but have not seen a cent. At the start of this process, she was in constant contact and very reassuring that we would get our deposit back. However, after repeated inquiry as to the whereabouts of the money, she started to become less and less communicative. Now we will go months without hearing from her. There is always some story about the %26quot;owner%26quot; not being able to get the money to us for various reasons - illness, out of town, financial hardship, etc. For a while, we were very understanding. Nine months later, we are not, and her lack of action and management skills have cost us 200 Euros.
I would suggest that anyone considering doing business with Jeanette Coussin or For Your Best Time rental agency should NOT work with her or this agency. RUN - do not walk - RUN away! You%26#39;d have less frustration tossing your money down a Parisian sewer drain!
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Links, this must be a hugely frustrating situation for you. You have my sympathies. If you never get the sec dep back, and I urge you to keep trying, at least you can know that you helped someone else avoid the same trouble. Thanks for the post.
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