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Renting your rental to a stranger, with your name still on the lease and the risk.
means To rent out space you yourself are renting, to someone else, while you remain the one legally answerable to the original landlord.
from Built from 'sub-' (under, beneath) plus 'let' (to rent out, from Old English 'lætan,' to allow or let out), so a sublet is literally a lease operating underneath another lease — your tenancy carrying a second, smaller tenancy inside it.
- legal status
- usually needs landlord written approval first
- liability
- original tenant still owes rent if subletter vanishes
- origin
- popularized by summer students and digital nomads
- risk
- airbnb-style subletting can get you evicted