Application period for furnished rooms
The application process for Spring 2025 is now closed. If you still need a room, send TOAS Office an email.
The application process for Autumn semester 2025 will be opened in May 2025.
Starting from 2024 all furnished rooms will have fixed term agreements until 31.5.2025. You can live in the furnished room for max one academic year.
Notice: due to the large amount of arriving new students, the new students of Spring semester 2025 (exchange and degree students) are the priority with this application. If you are already living in a furnished room, you will not be able to get a new offer with this application, as the new students are the priority.
Get to know our furnished locations
Take Note!
- This application is only for single rooms that have furniture, no family apartments are offered with this application. You can fill in the application 1-2 months before your arrival.
- If you want to live together with your friend, both of you need to submit your own application and write each other’s names on the “wishes” box in the application site.
- Once you have paid the deposit, the reservation is a binding agreement.
- In case your studies in Tampere are cancelled, contact TOAS immediately. The reservation is valid even if you do not pick up the key.
- TOAS accepts only direct bank transfers.
- In a shared apartment, the students are the same gender.
- This application is only for furnished single rooms. If we have any furnished family apartments available, they will be announced on the Quickly available apartments (applied via Regular application).
- TOAS is not legally allowed to give the names or the contact details of the future flat mates (Data Protection Act).
- You can live in a furnished room only for one academic year. After one year you must apply for an unfurnished room.
A furnished room
- A furnished room means that the bedroom has a bed with a mattress, a desk, a chair and a bookshelf.
- All TOAS kitchens have a stove, oven and a refrigerator.
- The rooms do not have duvets, pillows, sheets or towels (Exception: in Pinja the rooms have duvets and pillows).
- The common kitchens in Pinja and Lapinkaari have basic dishes, such as coffee mugs, plates and some pots and pans.
- All rooms in Pinja and Lapinkaari have a microwave and a small refrigerator.
- The kitchens in shared apartments do not have any dishes.
- The room has a lamp in the ceiling.
- See our furnished apartment options here.
Submitting the Application
- You can write your possible wishes about the accommodation to the “wishes” box on the application site (for example name of building, maximum rent, name of the friends you want to live with). We will do our best to fulfill the wishes but, due to a limited availability, we cannot guarantee we will provide everything you requested.
- The application has been successfully submitted when the site gives you a summary of your application or you receive a confirmation email (check your junk mail as well!).
- You may submit only one application and you will receive only one offer. If you submit more than one application, your offer based on the first application will be canceled! Please wait patiently for the offer!
- It is not possible to make any changes or add any wishes to the application after it has been submitted.
- We will offer you a room as close to your university as possible. If all the rooms at the closest possible locations are reserved, then TOAS will offer you accommodation in some other location.
- MyTOAS registration is NOT needed to submit this application, and unfortunately it is NOT possible to follow up this application via the registration.
About Our Apartments
- The rooms DO NOT include any kitchenware or bedding (no duvets or pillows, except for 145 Pinja)
- The student unions of the universities may have some “survival kits” available.
- Tenants are responsible for cleaning their own rooms+ the common areas in the apartment (shared apartment) or common kitchens (Pinja, Lapinkaari).
- All locations have internet access. We will provide more information via email before you arrive. You can also check our locations for more info.
- TOAS has sent you a location information with the apartment offer e-mail. Check the e-mail for more information on how to access internet in your location.
- The address of your room is written on the offer email. For example: Lapinkaari 1 A 9, 33180 Tampere. In this example Lapinkaari is the street name, 1 is the building number, A is the block, 9 is the apartment number, 33180 is the postal code.
- Normal post packages are taken to the post office nearest to your apartment, and you will receive a note via mail, saying where you can pick it up. If the package has been delivered by a courier company, for example DHL or FedEx, then the company will bring the delivery to your home and most likely call you, if they cannot access your apartment. In those cases you need to make sure, that the company knows how to contact you. TOAS does not receive or process any of the tenants’ deliveries.
Receiving and Accepting an Apartment Offer
After submitting the application, wait patiently for an apartment offer. A possible apartment offer will be sent via email based on the current availability, your place of study and your possible wishes approximately within 3-6 weeks after applying. Note: due to a limited availability TOAS cannot guarantee to offer accommodation for all applicants, or to meet all wishes.
You will need to pay the required deposit payment €300 by the given deadline. The possible additional bank fees for the international money transfer should be added to the amount. TOAS will not pay for any extra bank fees caused by the transfer.
Pay the deposit by the given deadline. Otherwise the offer will expire and the room will be offered to the next student waiting an apartment. When the offer has been made, your application will be immediately deleted from the system. If you pay from a foreign country and your main currency is something other than Euro, you can use TOAS-transfermate.
To confirm the offer you need to send a photo/screenshot of your letter/email of acceptance, enrollment certificate or student card. Also send a receipt/screenshot of the paid deposit fee incl. reference number.
Please check more detailed information from the apartment offer that we have sent by email!
We will not make you a second offer. If you fill in a second application before receiving any offer, the second application will delete the first one and you will be located lower down in the system and it will take longer to receive an offer. When you receive an offer, it is highly recommended to accept it, as it is the best possible offer you will receive.
Once the agreement has been confirmed, we will send you a Visma Sign link by e-mail to sign the agreement.
We will send you email before your agreement starts: information about the building, what to do when you arrive, how to get the keys etc.
Paying the Deposit
The deposit payment details will be given in the offer email. You are required to give your FULL NAME and the reference number and/or the address of the offered room with your payment. If someone else makes the payment on your behalf, it is extremely important that YOUR FULL NAME is added in the message field of the payment. Otherwise we are not able to allocate the payment to your reservation.
Once we have received your deposit payment, the reservation will be changed into an official tenancy agreement.
You will also receive an email confirmation with additional information (keys, etc.).
The 300€ is a deposit payment, which will be kept untouched during your tenancy agreement period. Once your tenancy agreement with TOAS has ended, TOAS will check your room. If the room is ok and cleaned, you have paid all your rents and you return your keys to TOAS in time, then the 300€ will be refunded to you. Normally the refund is done approximately within a month after the agreement has ended.
Rental Payments
The deposit payment does NOT cover any rents. In general, once the tenancy agreement is valid, the tenant is responsible for the rents during the tenancy agreement. Pay your rent by the due date given in the tenancy agreement and the rental invoice each month regardless of your physical location. Rent = basic rent informed on the web site + facility usage fee (includes the use of electricity), facility usage fee in furnished rooms is 23€/month.
TOAS will send you the rental payment details via email before your agreement starts.
You can pay several month’s rent at once, as a one payment, in advance. The rents must be paid by the deadline, which is always the 6th of the month. You can also use TOAS-transfermate for paying the rent. There is no need to send us receipts of paid rent.
We accept only direct money transfers.
Also, Finnish banks no longer accept cash payments. If you want to use your credit card, please contact your bank for assistance.
Your Keys
You don’t need to pick up the keys yourself, you can authorize your tutor or someone else to come pick them up with a power of attorney or send us an e-mail with the name and date of birth of the person picking up the key. You will receive an information e-mail about picking up the keys.
Please wait patiently for the email.
Our Cancellation Policy
Once we have received your deposit payment, the reservation will be changed into an official tenancy agreement, which cannot be cancelled.
If your studies in Tampere are cancelled, contact TOAS immediately.
The reservation is valid even if you do not pick up the key, so informing TOAS is critical. In case of a cancellation (for example a denied residence permit), it is very possible, that some rents might be required and the deposit payment will be kept to cover some of the rent. The exact amount depends on when the cancellation is received by TOAS.
myTOAS
myTOAS is a platform for tenants to find their tenancy agreement, rental invoices, payment information and location information. At myTOAS you can make laundry and sauna reservations via TOASbooking.
You can register to myTOAS only after your tenancy agreement has started. We will provide registration instruction in the location information email, which you will receive before your agreement starts.
Learn More: myTOAS