My family's planning to rent an apartment from this rental agency. Does anyone have any experience with parisattitude.com? For our upcoming trip, I've booked apartments in Madrid direct with the owner and in Rome through an agency (sleepinitaly.com). We are in the process of booking our Venice apartment also through an agency(veniceapartments.org). So far, all bookings have gone smoothly. We'll see about our final stay, I will try to post reviews.
For our Paris apartment, it seems Paris Attitude has a different way of doing things. They emailed me 2 contracts, 1 in English and 1 in French. I'm supposed to sign the French version and fax it back to them together with my credit card details, photocopies of passport, and authorization to debit the "agency fee". (Total rental = agency fee + rental rate direct to the owner as stated in the contract, the french one I'm supposed to sign). No problem with the figures because the initial price quoted for the apartment includes the agency fee. Its just a different way of doing things (as compared with my previous experiences with apartment rentals) because we're splitting the total rental cost between the agency and the owner, and its the first time I have to sign a lease contract with the owner - and in a foreign language. It states in their email that after they receive the contract and credit card authorization and details, together with clear photocopies of our passports, they will send us a confirmation of our apartment rental.
On top of this,the contract states that upon check in, I have to pay a refundable deposit equivalent to the total rental for the period of our stay (so I pay them double initially). The contract doesn't state when the refundable deposit will be returned, I am assuming at the end of the stay.
I am prepared to trust them and just sign everything especially given that they seem to be very nice people, by email and on the phone. But I learned long ago not to put my signature on anything I don't understand completely,
I would appreciate any feedback and experience booking an apartment with parisattitude.com.
Thank you.





