Thursday, April 27, 2006
Whether they are spending summer at home, at an internship, studying abroad, or working out of town, many students are in a bind to sublease their apartments or houses in Lawrence.
A problem for any potential sublessor, however, is that there are more students looking to get out of their homes than there are trying to find one.
Posts on one Lawrence apartment Web site, apartments.lawrence.com, show more than 50 listings for people looking to sublease their apartments and homes, and only 16 listings for those looking to rent.
On one long bulletin board on the first floor of Bailey Hall, more than 25 fliers were pinned by people looking for an occupant, and none by anyone looking for a place to live.
Barbara Parsons, Wallingford, Conn., graduate student, said she used a Web site last year and found two roommates she’d never met before to live with her this year at Tuckaway.
She put another ad up to find someone to live in her place for the summer, so she could save money by moving in with her boyfriend. She said she had less luck with finding someone for this summer, but she still found the advertising system to be helpful.
The process for subleasing in many apartment complexes that allow subleasing is for the individual moving out to fill out a sublease form; the complex then tries to re-rent the property.
Jessica Stewart, manager at Tuckaway Apartments, 2600 W. 6th St., said that most individuals trying to sublease their apartments did their own work to advertise to their friends and to the public. She said the management would mention the sublease if a prospective tenant was asking about one.
Stewart said that if an individual signed the form to sublease a room or apartment, he or she would be completely released and would have to re-sign a lease on an apartment in August for next year’s living arrangements.
Other complexes, like Orchard Corners, 14th Street and Bob Billings Parkway, don’t allow sub-leasing.
— Edited by Timon Veach
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