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…

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…

Finding a Sublet (and Sealing the Deal)

February 5, 2015 | By Naomi AuthorMy First Apartment

Moving to a new city? Woohoo! Adventure! Change! Terror! Yes, moving to a new city can stir up a lot of feelings. It can feel overwhelming, especially because you may not know much about the place. What are the neighborhoods like? Where is your favorite coffee shop? What’s the public transportation like? These are all things you might want…

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…

4 Rules to Subletting Your Apartment

September 30, 2013 | By MFA Editors AuthorMy First Apartment

4 Rules to Subletting Your Apartment By Sarah Kaufman, Manilla.com I’ve been living in various rental houses and apartments for almost 10 years, and almost every single one of them has had multiple people in and out of the apartment, subletting for just a few months (or even weeks) at a time. Most of the…