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Re: New York Real Estate

[(Anonymous)]

What's the legality of people splitting up a space like that?

Re: New York Real Estate

[(Anonymous)]

It's the landlord's decision who can go on the lease and if they can sublet to additional people. Or they can do it and not tell the landlord, depending on how absentee he/she is and no one in the building reports them.

Re: New York Real Estate

[(Anonymous)]

I'll add that sometimes there's an unknown number of people between the person who owns the building and the person who actually lives in the apartment. Like, the building will be owned by a faceless management company, run by a mostly-faceless co-op board, and the person who leases the apartment itself will sublet to someone for a few years, and that person will sublet their spare room to help pay the bills, and between the two of them they'll open the living room up to paying guests. Sometimes there's really know way to know, though usually when you rent the apartment you ask the person you're renting from (once you figure out who that is) if you can sublet your room for a day or a week or a month or a year. And if they say "no" you just don't tell them you did it if you know they're not around.