For rent, Apartment T4, 95,7 sqm in Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (flatsharing rental contract), from september 2020, the 1rst, 2 rooms available in this flatsharing appartment (for 3 flatmates)
For rent, Apartment in Valserhône former Bellegarde (Ain, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, ZIP : 01200), with a surface of 95,7 m2 (T4 in the french meaning = 5 rooms in the swiss meaning), in the very center of the city, near the town hall, near from all public and commercial facilities (commercial center, shops, banks, public administration, public transportation, railway station « SNCF », elementary school, high school…).
3 bedrooms from 13,6 sqm to 17,8 sqm, 1 living-room 20 sqm, 1 kitchen 13,4 sqm, 1 bathroom, 1 wc/toilette, 1 balcony 10 sqm, 1 cave. You can see the plan of the apartment on our website for this apartment.
2 rooms will be available for rent from may 2017, the 1rst.
There is 1 flatmate in each bedroom. No bedroom is shared by 2 or more flatmates/roommates.
Flatsharing rental with 3 flatmates, GLOBAL/TOTAL AMOUNT/COST FOR 1 FLATMATE, Amounts Paid to (to be paid to)
GLOBAL/TOTAL AMOUNT/COST FOR EACH FLATMATE, Amounts Paid to (to be paid to) = AROUND 470 €
300 € I.I monthly rental, paid to the owners
+ 90 € I.II monthly advance payments for service charges, paid to the owners
+ 80 €* II other monthly average expenses for housing (+/- on an indicative basis), paid to other providers
= 470 €* around, FOR EACH FLATMATE, GLOBAL/TOTAL Housing Rental budget (+/- according consumptions)
Warranty deposit : 390 euros for each flatmate
We are the owners of this apartment. We are not a real estate agency. We absolutely don’t live in this flat.
We speak english – Wir sprechen deutsch – Parliamo italiano. Nous parlons français.
You can get in touch with us by phone (message, SMS or direct contact), 00 33 (0)6 84 36 42 07 ; or by email bellegarde.locations @ free.fr or by skype (colocations). Website http://locations-bellegarde.com.
Bellegarde is 40-45 km far from Geneva, with the highway, it’s roughly between 30-45 minutes far (or by train, between 24 and 34 minutes). Bellegarde-sur-Valserine is a french city, it belongs to the transborders organization called « Great Geneva ». Bellegarde is about 45 kilometers far from Annecy, and is about 1 hour far by car from ski resorts such as La Clusaz, Le Grand Bornand, Samoens, and also 1h15 from Megève, Chamonix, for example. For nordic skiing, there are many resorts 30-60 minutes far from the city, for the example « le Plateau de Retord ».
The balcony is facing the South (depth : 1.4 m, length : 10-12 m). The apartment lays on the second floor in a small building of 3 floors, with no elevator. Entrance feature : a wall-cupboard with sliding doors, spacious (width 1.6 m, height 2 m, depth 60 cm – useful 65-70 cm) as in 2 pf the 3 rooms (wall-cupboard with the same size than the one in the entrance). Heating system is a central fuel heating.
FINANCIAL STATE/SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR HOUSING
Yes, the flatmates can get an APL, an « allocation logement » (financial state/social support for housing) because every flatmates does undersign the flatsharing rental contract. Financial state/social support for housing, called in french « APL », or « Allocations Personnalisées pour le Logement, is granted by the « CAF » (Caisse d’Allocations Familiales).
The issue of APL is one of the first questions we get asked from almost all people interested in the flat
You can estimate yourself the amount of your allowance / financial support on the CAF website : www.caf.fr. In general, the amount of the state/social housing support is 80 to 170 euros, for similar apartments with similar rents .
As the owners, we don’t decide anything about the amount of the APL (financial support for housing), and we don’t know anything about the way it is calculated.
There is no black rental, no shadow or illegal flatmates.
ENTRY PROCESSES
A / THE ENTRY PROCESS FOR ROOMMATES WHO CAN VISIT THE APARTMENT BEFORE THEY ARRIVE :
1. You visit the apartment, we meet, multilaterally (you, the flatmates, and we, the owners).
2. We (you, the current flatmates, and we, the owners) decide to sign a rental contract for flatsharing.
3. You send us your flatmate forms.
4. Your place in the apartment is defintively booked when the guaranty deposit is received, at least 15-21 days before entering the apartment and the actual beginning of the contract.
5. We make an inventory, we sign the lease and we give you the keys to the apartment.
B / THE ENTRY PROCESS FOR ROOMMATES WHO CAN NOT VISIT THERE, AND WHO WISH TO RESERVE THEM FROM :
1. We comunicate by phone, by email, with skype (you, the potential roommates, and we, the owners).
2. We (you, the tenants in place, and we the owners) decide to sign a flatsharing rental contract.
3. You send us your flatmate forms
4. Your place in the apartment is defintively booked when the guaranty deposit is received, at least 15-21 days before entering the apartment and the actual beginning of the contract.
5. We make an inventory, we sign the lease and we give you the keys to the apartment.
DEPOSIT GARANTY BANK TRANSFER
When you transfer the guaranty deposit, in advance, without having met before, do indicate the reason, for the transfer as follows « guaranty deposit for the flatsharing rental contract, for (you: name, surname) – (address of the apartment)-, from (date of entry) – (names of owners, ourselves). ». This ensures that the payment of your deposit can be proven for a specific purpose, the flatsharing rental of an apartment (our bank is a normal bank, settled in France, not in a fiscal paradize) : you pay a specific amount for something specific to a particular person.
THE ELEMENTS OF YOUR FLATMATE’S FORM
1. For the flatmate: photocopies of / copies of
– Identity card (identity card, front / back = recto / verso)
– Student card (if you are a student)
– Employer’s certificate if you work with the current date / month
– Last 3 rent receipts
– Last / latest Income Taxes notification
– Last three monthly payslips / payrolls or monthly incomes notification
– Last 3 electricity bills
– Certificate of housing insurance as a tenant (to be provided when finalizing the contract).
(« Home » insurance, with Multirisk guaranty, as a tenant / co-tenant / occupier / occupant / flatmate)
2. For guarantors (or « caution ») of the flatmate : photocopies / copies of
– Identity card (identity card, front / back = recto / verso);
– 3 last rent certificates
– Last yearly « property taxes » (in french : « taxes foncières »)
– Last 3 payslips, or Incomes’ documents
– Employer’s certificate, with the current date / month
– Last / latest Income Taxes notification
– Last electricity bills
– Handwritten commitment of the guarantee / guarantor, in french according to the model that we send to you. It’s better if your guarantor si someone living in France. We ABSOLUTELY never had to use (or activate) the commitment of a guarantee / guarantor.
TRANSPORT TO GENEVA BY TRAIN
For students, the monthly cost of the train ticket subscription between Geneva and Bellegarde (and Bellegarde – Geneva) amounts 103 Euros (unlimited number of trips between both cities), including the subscription for TPG (Public Transports of Geneva). The trip last around 24-34 minutes in average. Trains frequency is high, given the fact that many inhabitants of Bellegarde go every day to Geneva.
INFORMATIONS TO GIVE US IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE RENTAL CONTRACT
Your name, surname, date of birth, place of birth, usual address (often the address of your parents).
The name, surname, nationality/country citizenship, date of birth, place of birth, usual and complete address of your guarantor.
FRENCH LOCAL TAX CALLED « TAXE D’HABITATION »
The french local taxe called in french « taxe d’habitation » has to be shared (and paid) by every flatmate, proportionaly to how long they stay in the flat (prorata temporis per capita). As the payment is a yearly payment to the french administration, every flatmate leaving the apartment before the tax notification arrives, has to pay in advance an estimated quote of this tax (proportionaly to the duration of his/her stay in the flat).
LEAVING THE APARTMENT AND CLEANING YOUR ROOM
Before leaving, you have to clean your room.
We are ex-Erasmus, twice, and the groups of flatmates are often french and international, studious, nice, friendly, sports, non-smokers, with very strong relationships of trust.