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Renting comes with a dossier
Renting in France runs on paperwork. Landlords expect a dossier — payslips, tax notices, identity documents — and usually a garant, someone in France who contractually agrees to cover the rent if you cannot, typically earning three times it. Without one, expect to pay months up front or to use a paid guarantor service. Read meublé and vide carefully too. Vide means genuinely empty: no wardrobes, often no light fixtures beyond bare wires, and in some apartments no kitchen at all, the previous tenant having taken theirs with them.