Subleasing apartments

UAHousing
Fri, 29 May 2015 14:55:57 +0000

Good morning!
I asked our Off-Campus Resources team to chime in on this subject for you.

Hope this helps,
Janine

Every property has different policies and procedures in place when dealing with subleases and relets for their apartments or houses. The ideal way to find out about sublease and relet policies would be to call the property in which your student lives and they can tell you the exact procedure.

1.   The original tenant typically pays a fee to the property to have their lease taken over. Once a new tenant is interested, the new tenant pays a fee to take over the lease. These types of transactions are known as relets and are becoming more and more popular because it protects the original tenant and the new tenant coming in. If a property has this procedure, then they usually send someone in to clean the apartment before the new tenant moves in. In this case, the original is typically released fully from the lease and the new tenant is now responsible for the rest of the term of the lease.

2.   The traditional sublease is that the new tenant subleases from the original tenant and takes the apartment “as is”. This can be fine if there are no pets or the original tenant was a clean person. If this is the way your property handles a sublease, I would be sure that you understand everything that you are responsible for before moving out and finding someone else to sublease. You don’t want to be hit with late fees or other deposits that you were not aware of.

If you have other questions regarding subleases, please contact Whitney Sewell at wmsewell@sa.ua.edu.