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greengrass10
Joined 2013
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French owner wants to rent unfurnished apartment under furnished apartment contract

12 years ago

Hello,

I'm considering renting an apartment in France just a stonethrow away from Geneva and would appreciate your thoughts on the following situation. The owner advertised an apartment as an unfurnished apartment in France, and I expressed interest. However, now she says if I want to have the apartment I must take it under a furnished flat contract as she's planning to put a few items in the apartment. I honestly don't need furniture, and the apartment is clearly not furnished (the stuff she's putting in the apartment are some token junk stuff which I really don't want and don't need - she tells me I can store it in the storage room in the cellar if I don't want it). When I told her I wanted to rent the apartment under a standard unfurnished flat contract, she told me that the apartment is registered with the French government as a furnished apartment, and so she can only rent it out as a furnished apartment under a furnished apartment contract. Any thoughts on this? What should I do?

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