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 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…

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…

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…