Welcome to Sisters In Law, news.com.au’s weekly column solving all of your legal problems. This week, our resident lawyers and real-life sisters Alison and Jillian Barrett from Maurice Blackburn help a renter wanting to sub-let her home.
I live in a rental and I’m going away for three weeks over Christmas. My rent is $600 a week but it says in my contract that I can’t sub-let, which means putting $1800 down the drain while I’m away. Plus, rents in my area skyrocket over the Christmas period so I could probably run a profit if I put it on Airbnb. What can my landlord do if I sub-let my place? –, otherwise your landlord can end the rental agreement and ask anyone living at the property to leave within 14 days.
As your name is on the lease agreement you must ask for written permission from your landlord or property manager to sub-let it. Picture: iStockor property manager must give you permission to sub-let, unless there is a good reason not to. They are not able to refuse permission on the basis of a person’s race, sex, disability or gender identity.
If you sub-let your rental without your landlord’s approval they can end the rental agreement and ask anyone living at the property to leave within 14 days. Picture: iStock
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