Can you rent out part of a property you are renting?

DrDoomsday wrote: ↑ (Ontario)

I tried looking this up and got a lot of articles about sublets but sublets are supposed to have you leaving the entire property and coming back at a later date.

What I am wondering about is if you rent an apartment, can you decide to further rent out one room within that appartment? What is that arrangement called?

DrDoomsday wrote: ↑ (Ontario)

I tried looking this up and got a lot of articles about sublets but sublets are supposed to have you leaving the entire property and coming back at a later date.

What I am wondering about is if you rent an apartment, can you decide to further rent out one room within that appartment? What is that arrangement called?

kr0zet wrote: ↑
What does your lease say?

rcmpvet wrote: ↑ It is called Room & Board, your "tenant" has no real responsibility to the landlord and you are on the hook for everything. Now, this is assuming that your landlord knows nothing about this arrangement. If they do know then they can maybe draw up a new lease to encompass both parties.

rob444 wrote: ↑ As far as I know what is in the lease is irrelevant. If the Ontario RTA states roommates are allowed, then the tenant is allowed to get a roommate regardless of what was in the lease or how the landlord feels about it. Landlord would not have the right to force a new lease to include the roommate.

Now if the condo rules stipulated something about not having roommates, the tenant would need to abide by that. Also if they wanted so many roommates it would violate health/safety/occupancy laws.

oasis100 wrote: ↑ such horrible advice. please don't listen

refer to your agreement. landlords usually put a no sub lease clause in there.

atom2020 wrote: ↑ I don't know if it is the same as subletting but for subletting you need permission. I imagine you would need permission to rent a room out too. I found this:

It is illegal to assign or sublet a unit without the landlord’s consent. A landlord can apply to the Landlord and Tenant Board to evict both the tenant and the unauthorized occupant. However, if the landlord does not file the application within 60 days of discovering the unauthorized occupant, the unauthorized occupant becomes a tenant.

I once went to look at places with my friend downtown for him to rent. We went to one place where there was some guy renting out a 2 bedroom unit and was looking for 3 tenants. In the end we found out he was not the owner, he was renting the unit. My friend ended up renting from him and 2 other guys also rented in that unit, so two of them got their own rooms, and one slept in the living area. I don't think the owner ever even knew this was happening. I believe he was making money and probably paying the landlord less rent but collecting $3100 in rent from the tenants.

Interpretation, sublet
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a reference to subletting a rental unit refers to the situation in which,

(a) the tenant vacates the rental unit;

(b) the tenant gives one or more other persons the right to occupy the rental unit for a term ending on a specified date before the end of the tenant’s term or period; and

(c) the tenant has the right to resume occupancy of the rental unit after that specified date. 2006, c. 17, s. 2 (2).

oasis100 wrote: ↑ such horrible advice. please don't listen

refer to your agreement. landlords usually put a no sub lease clause in there.