A bunch of us found it on the Web. It was very simple. We could view the whole apartment on line and book it right there. Everything was in English. Rather than viewing a long list of apartments, you key in the dates you are looking for and up comes a list with prices in dollars.
Correspondence is by e-mail.
In two years I have seen an evolution in rentals you wouldn't believe,'' Randall Vemer of French Home Rentals recently told me. We have 25 apartments in Paris, villas in Provence, and a couple places in Tuscany. Of course there's a lot more competition because a lot more people are doing this. Explore any Paris neighborhood and you will stumble on apartment hotel chains, another option especially appealing to families. It was in Montmartre that I first saw a brochure for Citadines, one of the largest of these chains.