☎️ French phone conversation EXPLAINED - Rent a flat (advanced French)

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Yes, hello? Yes hello. I am calling you about an apartment that is for rent on Leboncoin.

I would like to have more information. A rental apartment is an apartment that you do not own. Every month, we pay rent to live in this apartment.

Leboncoin is a website in France on which you can buy or sell things or in this case rent real estate. It is a classified ads website. Yes, tell me at what price you saw it?

So, it’s the 4-room apartment of 74 square meters which costs €1,300. At 1300, yes, absolutely. A four-room apartment or a T4 is an apartment that has four living rooms.

Generally, it is an apartment with three bedrooms. We include the living room and the bedrooms. We never count the kitchen and the bathroom, which are rooms that you will normally find in all apartments.

It is right between the beaches and the village, in the city center. All right. Equidistant.

Ok. The apartment is equidistant between the beaches and the city center. Beaches are where you can go to the sea, you can lie down on the sand.

And the city center is where you will find bakeries, banks, public transport, etc. Is there parking? Is there somewhere to park?

So, there is no actual parking. In the street just in front, the current tenant parked his two cars. He and wife, no problem.

There is a garage, so if you want to bring a car in, that's no problem either. Okay, is it a big garage? Can we fit a small car, a large car?

Yes. I don't know. Honestly, I saw it, but I couldn't tell you the size of the garage.

I don't know. Okay, very good. In any case, on the street, there is no problem.

There are always, always, places. Okay, no problem. Mathieu asks the real estate agent if there is parking.

A parking lot is a place where you can park your car. We also talk about a place or a parking space. It's again a place where you can park your car.

I'm looking for a place for my car. The real estate agent says there is no parking to speak of. This means that there is no official parking.

It's not really planned that there will be a place, but you can park on the street, there are always spaces. So, I would also like to know something else. Are there amenities not too far away?

That is to say, can we do things on foot like going to the bakery, going shopping or do we have to take our car? So, you're at. .

. You know what? I'm sure.

. . I'll tell you.

I'd say we're less than a kilometer away. It's a 10 minute walk, I check. Mappy tells me, so 3 minutes by car, but on foot, 13 minutes on foot.

Thirteen minutes on foot? OK, agreed. Amenities are generally what you find in the city center.

These are bakeries, public transport, a supermarket, the things that make your life easier. On foot, when you move on foot, it means by walking. You don't need to take your car.

Are the charges. . .

The charges you indicate €90 per month? That's it. And in the end, I imagine that at the end of the year, there is a regularization?

A regul, exactly. Ok. But roughly speaking, it remains at this price.

There is no regularization. . .

Yes, unless there are exorbitant water bills, it remains in this price range. There is just household waste that is also claimed. All right.

In December. . .

well, January, sorry, to the tenants. He didn't give me the property tax the owner. I don't know how much it is, but the household waste part is.

. . The tenant's responsibility.

Okay, OK, fine. The charges. Generally, when you have an apartment, you pay the rent and utilities separately.

The charges will, for example, be the maintenance of the building, the heating, if it is collective, the water, the elevator. These are the things you have to pay extra for. A regularization.

Very often, at the end of the year, we have to pay an adjustment if there have been more expenses. Here, the real estate agent is going to say "a regul", so in fact, she cuts the word. She talks about household waste, but in reality, she talks about the tax that must be paid for this household waste, for this waste.

In this context, it is obvious that she is talking about a tax. She just says garbage. She says it's the tenant's responsibility.

“To be someone’s responsibility” means it’s someone’s responsibility. If it's up to me, it's up to me to do it. It's a word you do n't hear very often.

It's a strong word. Afterwards, I had a question about the DPE because I see that it is not indicated on the ad. I put it on recently, I put it on this morning, I didn't have it.

I didn't get it back. He's in. .

. I'm not talking nonsense to you, C I think. Indeed, yesterday, I didn't have it.

So, I put it. . .

In fact, I flipped the ad, without paying attention. No problem. We're in C.

121, it's C. Okay. C, yes, that's fine.

That's a good mark. There is no problem. Yes, because in fact the building is from 2000.

Oh yes, it is a recent building. It's recent, yes, it's recent. It's true that the diags are pretty good.

All right. The DPE is a rating that we will give to housing and this rating concerns the energy efficiency of a home. This rating goes from A to G.

Housing that is rated A is very good housing where energy will be well conserved. The building is a large building with different apartments in it, several apartments. The diagnostics, again, will be linked to the energy efficiency of a home.

She even says "diags", so she cuts the word, again. I don't know if you have this information, but in relation to sound insulation, because I am quite sensitive to noise and I wanted to know if we could hear our neighbors or if overall things were going well. I already saw that it was a top floor, so it's already good for that.

It's a top floor. So listen, I don't know. The current tenant told me that it was only inhabited by people of a certain age.

He told me they are nice people. Let's say that in the corridors we pass each other, we say hello, because he has two kids. There is a very good understanding, but only people of a certain age.

Unless they have the TV really loud because they're deaf, but I don't think they're loud. Afterwards, you can come across. .

. Finally the feedback I got from the former tenant whom I know, the atmosphere is rather nice. He didn't tell me about any nuisance.

Okay, very good. Mathieu says that he is quite sensitive to noise, he doesn't like there to be noise and he talks about sound insulation. Sound insulation means are the walls really thick?

Or on the contrary, do we hear everything that happens with the neighbors? The apartment for rent is on the top floor. That means it's the tallest apartment in the building.

The real estate agent says that people of a certain age live in this building. It's a polite way, a nice way of saying that they are old people. They are mostly old people.

The tenant, unlike the owner, is the one who lives in an apartment that he rents. The tenant will pay the owner every month to live in his apartment. The owner, on the other hand, is the one who owns the accommodation.

The real estate agent says people say hello to each other in the hallways. The corridors, when you are in the building, are the passages which provide access to the different apartments. But also, you can have one or more corridors in your apartment.

This is what allows you to go from one room to another. She says the current tenant has two kids. A kid is a little girl.

Kid and kid, these are slang words. Usually, we use them with people we know. Being deaf means not being able to hear, having difficulty hearing.

The real estate agent says maybe older people watch TV very loudly if they are deaf, if they don't hear well. Nuisances are noises that can disturb you, noises or even actions. I think I have all the information.

Is there availability for tours? You, you should. .

. Because there, it is available for April 1st. You are.

. . In terms of timing, is that what you need too?

I was waiting around May 1st because it was time to terminate the current lease. Yes, I understand. Because there, not to hide anything from you, it's true that these apartments of this size, at this price, there are none, that's for sure, even few.

So, I think that the first file that validates and the person who enters first. . .

I don't think that the owner leaves his apartment empty for a month. I understand, it's normal. It's just the notice period on my end.

It's a month, you? Yes. What area are you in?

I am in Roquevaire. Okay, okay. Yes, in Bouches-du-Rhône.

Okay, yes. Ok, well, I understand. So afterwards, if we actually don't have anyone on hand who.

. . You see, there's no problem, but it's an apartment that will be gone within the week.

Visiting or visiting means going to see an apartment or house that you might want to buy or rent. When we want to terminate a rental lease, so “Terminate” means to stop and a lease is the contract that we have with an owner in the case of a rental. There is a notice period to terminate the lease, to stop living in this apartment, to pay the rent.

There is a period between the moment when he tells his current landlord that he wants to move and the moment when he will actually be able to leave or at least stop paying for the apartment. The notice period can be one month or three months. I understand, this kind of apartment, there is a beautiful view, I imagine.

There is a view of. . .

There is the stadium, on the other hand, there is a stadium where there are children's matches, on weekends. That can also be a problem for some. That's why I'm telling you.

Ah there's a bit of noise. Yes, on weekends, there are matches, indeed. Afterwards it's good if we play football.

At least we have the stadium ready. That's it. But after the deadline, it's true that our owner, I think that the first file which is correct, he validates.

Okay, very good. I will try to move forward on my own with my landlord. Mathieu asks if there is a view from the apartment.

When we talk about a view, it's not just seeing something. In general, this means that what we see is pretty. The agent replies that there is a football stadium just below the apartment and that there are matches, children playing football, who play football in the stadium every weekend.

And I'll let you know very, very quickly to see if I can make a visit and not block your apartment for nothing. Okay, come on. That works.

Thank you so much. Thank you sir. Good day.

Bye. The conversation ends and they tell each other that they will keep each other updated. That means they're going to give each other news.

They will certainly call back later to perhaps organize a visit or, on the contrary, for Mathieu to say “Finally, I am no longer interested. ” There you have it, the conversation between Mathieu and a real estate agent from the South of France is over. I hope you enjoyed this advanced conversation.

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