I am subletting my NYC apartment and would like to know if I should be on the lookout for brokers posing as prospective tenants, or any other scams.<\/p>\n
More precisely, I am not subletting my place but rather “assigning” my lease (this is the NYC housing law term for it). It simply means someone fully taking over your lease.<\/p>\n
That is, a person can break their lease and assign it to another person, if the landlord agrees. The first tenant’s lease (mine) is then completely terminated and the new person gets their own lease.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am subletting my NYC apartment and would like to know if I should be on the lookout for brokers posing as prospective tenants, or any other scams. More precisely, I am not subletting my place but rather “assigning” my lease (this is the NYC housing law term for it). It simply means someone fully…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-47363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brokers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/subletting-my-p\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Subletting my Place – How to Avoid Broker Scams?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/subletting-my-p\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/subletting-my-p\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"humanbeing"}],"creator":["humanbeing"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-08-10T11:45:13Z","datePublished":"2010-08-10T11:45:13Z","dateModified":"2010-08-10T17:37:10Z"},"rendered":"