Lease and tenant
Choosing a tenant, writing the lease, knowing what the law allows and forbids.
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Lease and tenantBoiler servicing in France: tenant or landlord?
In a French rental, servicing an individual boiler each year is the tenant's job unless the lease says otherwise; replacing it is the landlord's. Certificate, deadlines, who pays.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantA co-tenant leaves: what happens to joint liability?
A French co-tenant gives notice: under a joint liability clause, they and their guarantor stay bound up to six months after the notice, less if a replacement joins the lease.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantCan a guarantor withdraw from a French lease?
A fixed-term French guarantor stays bound until the agreed term; an open-ended one may withdraw, but only from the end of the current lease. The required wording, an example.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantWhen a tenant dies in France: what happens to the lease
When a French tenant dies, the lease passes to the spouse, PACS partner or relatives who lived with them for a year. Otherwise it ends by law. Who, how, and what next.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantNo home insurance certificate from the tenant?
A French tenant without a home insurance certificate: formal notice, then either ending the lease or insuring on their behalf, recharged in twelfths with 10% at most.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantTenant left without a move-out inventory
A French tenant hands back the keys without a move-out inventory: have a commissaire de justice draw it up, costs shared. The article 1731 presumption, the deposit, an example.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantCan a French tenant paint or drill the walls?
Painting, shelves, drilling: a French tenant may fit out the home freely, but a transformation needs the landlord's written consent. Where the line is, the move-out, an example.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantTenant repairs in France: what the tenant pays
Routine upkeep and minor repairs for the tenant, the rest for the landlord: the 1987 decree's list room by room, the exceptions for wear and tear, and a worked example.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantCan a French tenant sublet on Airbnb?
Subletting on Airbnb needs the French landlord's written consent to the sublet and its price, capped at the tenant's rent. Without it: termination and sublet income repaid.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantViewings during the notice period: the rules
Showing a French rental during the tenant's notice: no public holidays, two hours at most on working days, never without consent. The clause, the planning, an example.
Kivlo · Updated November 9, 2026
Lease and tenantFrench rental applications: what a landlord may ask for
Identity, address, employment, income: the closed list of decree 2015-1437, the guarantor's documents, what you cannot ask for and the fine you risk.
Kivlo · Updated November 7, 2026
Lease and tenantNotice periods in France: tenant and landlord
A French tenant's one or three months' notice, the reasons and proof, the end date and rent owed, and the landlord's notice six or three months before the term.
Kivlo · Updated November 7, 2026
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