What is the difference between assignment and subletting a unit?
What most people call “subletting” is actually “assigning.” Assigning a unit means that the current tenant moves out of the unit permanently before the end of the lease and transfers their rights and obligations to a new tenant. The new tenant (the “assignee”) carries out the landlord and tenant agreement, under the same terms and conditions agreed to between the original tenant and the landlord. Subletting a unit means that the current tenant moves out of their unit for a specified period of time but intends to move back into the unit at the end of that period to finish out the term of the lease. The subtenant is responsible to the original tenant who then acts as their landlord. The most common example of this is the summer sublet – during the summer months a student moves out of the accommodations used for the school year in order to spend the summer back home, and sublets the accommodations to other students. When the summer ends the original tenant returns to school and moves back
