sublet
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A friend will sublet my apartment starting in October.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Northern California, where she grew up, offers less hectic living, with family nearby and a proper house rather than an illegal basement sublet.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
The BBC contacted the businessman who rented the property, who says he had sublet it to a builder.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Mama, Sid and I moved into a sublet and eventually into a 19-room Tudor-style mansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
He’d come back to Chicago over his summer break from Harvard, this time skipping the sublet and moving directly into my apartment on Euclid Avenue.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Listings Projects, a classified newsletter featuring sublets in New York City, Los Angeles and others creative hubs , is one of the systems that seems poised to grow.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023
She was inspired by Sam Farrazaino who established Equinox Studios, converting a 30,000-square-foot former factory to sublets for working artisans in Seattle’s Georgetown in 2006.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
“This guy doesn’t look like he has $15. Look at him! Millions of dollars? He looks like he sublets from Oscar the Grouch.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
She sublets the apartment, and, as is the way of folks with less money, maybe especially queer friends, ends up living there with two other people.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2022
Undertenant, un′dėr-ten-ant, n. one who sublets a farm, house, &c. from the actual tenant.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
By subletting to him at a lower-than-market rent, you may be limiting some tax deductions.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
A company representing the property owner later told us that the tenancy agreement "expressly forbids" subletting and multiple occupancy and that the property had never been let or advertised for those purposes.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
This can protect you whether you’re a homeowner renting out a spare room or a renter subletting from someone else.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2025
“We were just subletting our apartment,” said Ewald, explaining that she expected to return to New York after the Empty Space gig.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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