Cheapest of the Geneva options with a real tram rather than a bus, and close to CERN if that is why you are here. Twenty-five minutes to UNIGE is the price. Sensible for a first year, less so if your evenings are in town.
Landlords in Meyrin ask for the same file as anywhere in the canton: a debt-collection extract, proof of income, and a guarantor who lives in Switzerland. Two of those are impossible before you arrive, which is why flatshares and private landlords are the realistic route from abroad.
Your deposit is capped at three months of net rent — up to CHF 3'450 at the top of the range here — and it is blocked in your own name, not the landlord's. How the deposit works
We co-sign leases so the file gets accepted, and we search the market when our own rooms are full.