Housing

You can also check out the website for Boplats Göteborg AB (www.boplatsgbg.se, click on English) which acts as an intermediary for the renting of apartments with firsthand contracts in the Greater Göteborg area.  They have an extensive listing of commercial landlords with contact information links to their respective websites. In order to apply for an apartment, you need to register with them - check out the heading "This is how it works!"

Of course, you can always check the classified ads in Göteborgs Posten for housing options. Look under "bostad." Please note that property descriptions here differ from what you are used to. For example, a house listed in an American newspaper as "4 bedrooms, 2 bath" will be listed here as "5 rok" (5 rooms and a kitchen, the 5^th room being the living room). "2:a" means 2 rooms (= 1 bedroom + living room) and a kitchen, "3:a" means 3 rooms (=2 bedrooms + living room) and a kitchen, and so on. An etta (1:a) would be equivalent to a studio apartment with one combined living-/bedroom and a kitchen.   Badrum = full bathroom with either a bathtub (badkar) or shower (dusch) while "WC" stands for water closet and means half-bath with toilet and sink. You'll also notice that floors are referred to differently and can be quite confusing until you've adjusted your thinking.  Here's some help:

So when you're waiting for the moving guys to come with your furniture or waiting for any other type of delivery, be sure that you have given them the Swedish description of which floor you're located on - otherwise, they'll call you from the stairwell on their cell phones and wonder where you are.  : )