I'm Sorry to hear you lost the apartment. When my wife and I first moved to Geneva, we got rejected a lot, (ironically because we did not have children) We were looking for an apartment with 3 bedrooms and they thought that it should only go to people with children. Eventually we found a place, by looking in want ads from people who needed to leave and needed to give names of potential tenants to the regie. Best of luck in your search.