Four Tips for Subletting Your Apartment

January 13, 2020 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

Imagine that you’re a college student living in an off-campus apartment on a year-long lease. This lease term is convenient for your fall and spring semesters, but what do you do if you’re not planning to be anywhere near campus for the summer? You’ve got to pay that three or four months of summer rent…

3 Things You Need to Know Before Subletting Your Apartment

December 7, 2017 | By Contributors AuthorMy First Apartment

You are tied into a one-year lease when an internship is offered to you in another city. This requires you to live several hours away for 3 months. Getting out of your lease is not possible, and you cannot afford to pay rent on two residents for 3 months. In a situation like this, subletting…

How To Make A Good Impression On Potential New Roommates

April 2, 2017 | By J Simpson AuthorMy First Apartment

Getting a call back from a Craigslist ad can seem like a major victory, especially when potential roomies are swarming like ants on a pool of honey. Getting a call back, however, is just the first hurdle to overcome. You’ve got to make a good impression on your potential new roommates. Much like trying to…

12 Questions Every Subletter Needs to Ask

May 15, 2016 | By MFA Editors AuthorMy First Apartment

As new grads start flooding to the housing market, subletting a roommate share is the time-tested way of scoring an apartment when your budget is not high enough for a place of your own. Whether you are looking for a short term sublet of a few weeks while you hunt for a permanent place or…

Subletting Woes, Part 1

May 28, 2015 | By Naomi AuthorMy First Apartment

Throughout the entirety of one of my recent sublets in Oakland, my focus repeatedly settled on a book on the bookshelf entitled, “Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life”. I never picked the book up, but every time I read the title, I wondered about Sonja. I should have listened to my…

How to Be a Subletter

June 7, 2014 | By Melissa AuthorMy First Apartment

Though I’ve sublet my room several times while I was away, I do not have much experience with subletting from someone else. I was trying to figure out where to go when my lease expires next month, and I realized that subletting for the summer made the most financial and logistical sense. As a person who has hosted subletters…

How to Sublet Your Roommate Share

December 15, 2013 | By Melissa AuthorMy First Apartment

Subletting is a great way to earn extra money, or at least avoid paying rent on an empty room when you’re out of town. However, when you have roommates, inviting a stranger or even an acquaintance to temporarily live in your home can be uncomfortably unfamiliar with everyone else who agreed to live with you…

How to Sublet Your Apartment

November 24, 2012 | By Alex AuthorMy First Apartment

You’re in the middle of your lease but you need to move, and you don’t know what to do. Luckily, the solution is simple: you have to sublet your place. This means finding someone else to live in your apartment until your lease expires. It’s a relatively common maneuver – and here’s how to do it. The…