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…

Five Essential Subletter Etiquette Rules

November 15, 2019 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

If you’re subletting from someone, you’ll be living in an apartment that’s at once yours and very much not yours. You might be a bit worried about how you can properly feel at home while respecting the original tenant’s space. With these five essential rules for subletter etiquette rules, you should have no trouble comfortably…

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…

6 Ways To Break Your Lease

June 4, 2017 | By J Simpson AuthorMy First Apartment

We’re living in uncertain times. Sure, things have always been unpredictable and up in the air; life can deliver us lemons at any time, even in more prosperous times. In an age of unstable local economies, skyrocketing rental markets, lack of resources, unfriendly social climates – anything could happen, at any time, making it hard…

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…

What to Do With Your Apartment Before a Lengthy Trip

May 17, 2015 | By Christa AuthorMy First Apartment

Summer is fast approaching and with it comes ample opportunities to travel with friends, family, or solo. When you’re a renter, it’s normal to have some reservations about leaving your apartment and all of your possessions behind. I live alone and have done my fair share of traveling so I understand the anxiety. If your…

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…

When the Subletter Renegs on the Rent

July 11, 2008 | By Alissa AuthorMy First Apartment

Hello Gentle Blog Readers, I was going to write about urgent last-minute apartment fixes–but a friend is having an urgent problem, so I’m hoping some of you may have advice. Also, apartment living ethics fascinate me. The problem? The subletter( who is an acquaintance of a current housemate) doesn’t think she should pay rent for…

Going somewhere new means leaving someplace else

February 17, 2008 | By Alissa AuthorMy First Apartment

I accepted a job offer in New York approximately two weeks ago. What I don’t think I accepted at that time, was that my life as I knew it was about to be flipped completely upside down. I know that the theme of this website is new beginning, but that cheesy song lyric about every…