First of all you are to determine 1 thing, what apartments to rent Paris will be the most appropriate for you, furnished or unfurnished one. You have to think carefully about those things. If you have come to France for a few months it will be better to have a furnished apartments, it will relieve your headache about buying different things and you can freely settle in a new city. But if to look at it from the other hand, for instance you have to live there for a couple of years, it will be much more economical to rent unfurnished accommodation. You can go to a secondhand market and furnish your flat with furniture you like most.

There are two ways to rent an apartment in Paris, the 'do-it-yourself' way, and the 'agency' method for those who are wealthy enough to pay a month of rent additionally to the agency for their services. There are no other propositions for apartments Paris short term.

The agency method is simpler, you just need to look for some English speaking agencies, and you have lots of service suppliers who talk that minimum English to converse with you, at least enough to find you a room. First of all you are to find in yellow pages the section “immobiliers” (French notion for real estate) and then call in the companies that you will observe there. After you've called to an agency you have to say 'Bonjour, parlez vous anglais?' ('Bojho, parley voo angley') that implies “Good day, do you speak English”. And if the answer is positive, you can say what you require for. Bear in mind that there may be two terms to make a payment for Paris short term apartments: half of a month's and full month term.

The next “do-it-yourself” way may be the same easy as the previous one. But the diversity is that owing to this way you will save much more funds than in preceding situation. The difficulty what you can have here is to converse with the landlords. For this, you may take assistance of a local resident someone whom you knew before or somebody you have met in a forum, for instance. In the situation when you don't have such opportunity, the number of the accommodations for you to visit will definitely diminish. But don't despair you will have a lot of possibilities to find an English speaking landlord. And you are having this advantage with you that quite a large number of landlords (they take it or not) prefer giving rooms to the 'native' English speakers.

The best place to begin your search is American church of Paris where you may see persons who speak English and a great amount of other English resources. There is a “FUSAC” journal that you can purchase not far from the main gateway of the church. (Till now the best printed resource for Englishmen who need info in France). And the best mode to get short term apartment Paris is to go on the web.