First things first, the query you have to request yourself at the very beginning, is which sort of apartment for rent Paris you are looking for, a furnished or an unfurnished one. You have to think thoroughly about those things. If you came to Paris for several weeks it will be better to have a furnished accommodation, it will ease your headache about buying diverse things and you can freely install yourself in a new city. But from the other hand it will be much more economical to get an unfurnished apartment if you will remain here for several years. It is easy to come to a secondhand market and look for some furniture on your taste that will be suitable for you and your pocket.

There exist two ways to get an apartment in Paris, the 'do-it-yourself' method, and the 'agency' way for those persons who are wealthy enough to pay a month of rent additionally to the agency for their services. You must select 1 of these ways to get apartments Paris.

The company method is easier, you just need to look for some English speaking agencies, and you got lots of service suppliers who talk that minimum English to communicate with you, at least enough to rent you a room. First of all you are to find in yellow pages the part “immobiliers” (French notion for real property) and then phone in the agencies that you will observe there. You can start with the phrase 'Bonjour, parlez vous anglais?' ('Bojho, parley voo angley') query which means 'Good day, do you speak English' and if the answer is affirmative, start talking business. Remember that there can be 2 terms to pay for Paris short term accommodation: half of a month's and full month term.

The “do-it-yourself” way may be also so easy one as the way with the help of an agency. But if to parallel with the preceding method you will preserve much more funds with the assistance of this way. The main difficulty here is in the case that you will have to converse with landlords. For this, you can take assistance of a local resident someone whom you knew before or somebody you have met in a forum, for instance. If you don't have such a person you will have to look for an English speaking landlord that will surely decrease the number of the apartments that you will call on, but don't be afraid you will find such persons. And remember that a large amount of Paris lessors prefer to give their accommodations to persons who are native English speakers.

The best place to begin your search is American church of Paris where you can see persons who speak English and a great amount of other English information. There is a “FUSAC” journal that you may purchase near the main gateway of the church. (It is the greatest English speaking source for Englishmen and Americans in France). And short term rentals Paris may be also receive with the assistance of web pages.