ExpatAdminHub

If you rent in France, three searches probably brought you here: "landlord won't return deposit France", "how to force my landlord to do repairs", or "my landlord is ignoring my move-out notice." These are the most common — and most stressful — tenancy disputes, and they all share one quiet truth: the tenant who has a dated, written, provable record almost always wins. French rental law (the Loi n°89-462 du 6 juillet 1989) is genuinely protective of tenants, but the law only helps you if you can prove what happened and when. As a non-French-speaking expat, that paper trail matters even more — a clear, traceable record of every request closes the door on "I never received that" and "you never asked." This guide walks through getting your dépôt de garantie back, forcing repairs your landlord is dodging, giving notice correctly, and using the état des lieux as evidence — and shows the simplest way to keep all of it in one provable place.

You signed a Swiss contract with a gross salary in CHF, you live in France, and somewhere in the first three months you are supposed to make a permanent health-insurance choice between LAMal and CMU — in French, against a clock you barely understand. The single number nobody gives you is the one that matters: what actually lands in your account each month, and whether LAMal or CMU is cheaper for you. Net Frontalier is a free, anonymous, bilingual app that answers exactly that. Here is what it does, what it honestly does not do, and how to use it before your droit d'option deadline runs out.

If you own a flat or house in France and you do the paperwork yourself — often from another country — you already know the real work isn't the rent, it's the bail, the monthly quittance de loyer, the état des lieux, the deposit, and the slow drip of compliance deadlines nobody reminds you about. Rent by AdminLanding (store name Rent — Lease & Short-Term in English, Rent — Bail & Courte Durée in French) just shipped its biggest update yet across both its mobile apps (iPhone + Android) and its web back-office at adminlanding.com — and the headline for non-resident and expat landlords is simple: you can now run a French rental end-to-end — long-term lease or short-term / Airbnb (meublé de tourisme) — in English or French, from a phone in London or a laptop in New York, without paying an agency 6–10% to do it for you. The two standout additions: a per-property compliance check that scores every legal obligation (DPE letting-ban, diagnostics, SIRET, short-term registration, taxe de séjour) at a glance, and a "which document do I need?" finder that maps your situation to the right one of 23 templates. This is a what's-new guide: what the update added, what each surface now does, and what it costs (the first property is free).

To renew your Brexit WARP carte de séjour in France, apply through your préfecture — online via the ANEF portal where available — starting about two months before it expires. Renewal is free, with no language test and no income requirement. A récépissé keeps you legal while you wait. Most renewals now produce a 10-year card.

If you live abroad and rent out a property in France, France taxes that rental income — wherever you are tax-resident. The rules that trip up non-resident landlords are specific: which form to file, the 20% minimum rate, the social-levy rate that depends on your health-insurance country, and the tax treaty that stops you being taxed twice. This guide walks through the 2026 declaration end to end, for unfurnished rentals taxed as revenus fonciers. (Furnished rentals follow the separate [LMNP/BIC rules](/en/blog/2026-05-13-lmnp-furnished-rental-tax-micro-bic-vs-reel-guide).)

Rent out a furnished property in France and your income is not revenus fonciers — it is BIC (industrial and commercial profit), under the LMNP regime. That single difference changes everything: the allowances, the ability to deduct depreciation, and even how your eventual sale is taxed after the 2025 reform. Here is how LMNP works in 2026, the micro-BIC vs régime réel choice that decides your tax bill, and the recent rule changes every furnished landlord should know.