What we get asked most, answered with the figures rather than around them. Written by people who house students in Lausanne, not by people summarising other websites.
Almost every rejection we see has the same cause, and it is not the rent. It is that the agency wanted a guarantor and the student did not have one.
ReadThe figure most cantons ask for is CHF 21,000 per academic year. The number is the easy part; the form it has to take is where applications fail.
ReadArticle 257e of the Code of Obligations caps a residential deposit at three months' net rent, and requires it to sit in a blocked account in your name. Both halves of that matter.
ReadStudents assume they were outbid. Usually they were not even compared — the file was incomplete and went on the wrong pile.
ReadAlmost every step has a fixed lead time, so the dates are not a matter of opinion. Here they are, counted back from a mid-September start.
ReadThe number students budget for is the rent on the advert. The number that leaves the account is considerably larger, and the gap is predictable.
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