Subleasing, boo.

Lesson of the day(and the past month): finding a subleaser sucks.

At the beginning of February 2010 a few of my friends and I started looking for a house to live in for the school year. We found a 6 bedroom house that, at the time, we all loved. All of us had been amped up for moving in together.

A week before our lease was going to start one of our roommates told us she was looking for a subleaser and was moving out because it no longer worked out for her. It sucked. It was an awful feeling. Your friend and roommate wants to move out. You don't want to have to find anyone to replace her because you don't want to have to deal with making a new friend and getting comfortable with someone else.

We ended up settling for a guy to live there over the summer just so we wouldn't have to worry about it and so we could have more time to find a girl. We worked it out.

Just a few days ago another one of our roommates decided that the house situation wasn't going to work out for her anymore so she told us to find her a subleaser too. Finding another subleaser is the last thing I want to do right now. It's hard to talk to new people living in your house about bill payment arrangements and other things like that.

We thought we could depend on the two but now we don't think we can. It is going to be a little bit harder to depend on someone we don't know too.

So, before you sign a lease with some friends, think about how much you can really depend on them. A lease is a legal documenting between tenants and their landlord. It isn't always going to be easy to get out of and it is difficult to find a subleaser.