Subletting

Subletting

Subletting is when the person on the lease puts someone else into the room as if it were theirs to let. Most student agreements in a ManjeProp house forbid it or allow it only with written consent. A Facebook post that says “take over my room, cash” is not consent.

This is an operations warning. It is not a treatise on when a landlord must reasonably consent, and it is not permission to ignore your clause.

Read the sentence before you advertise the bed

If the lease says no subletting, believe it. If it says consent will not be unreasonably withheld, that is still a written request, not a roommate you already moved in. If it is silent, do not invent a right. Ask.

A booking on the desk is between the business and a named person. It is not a franchise you can sell in July.

Why informal sublets fail houses

We lose the name of the person with the key. We lose the incoming inspection pair. We lose the number that will ring for a flood. The geyser load changes. The deposit conversation at the end has three people and one receipt. Overlap warnings start meaning nothing because the official diary is fiction.

A parent who paid a deposit to a student they never met is not our enquiry form. They are a dispute.

If you need to leave early

Give notice the lease describes. Ask whether a replacement can be introduced, on our paper, with our inspection, our keys, our listing if the room will be empty. That replacement is not your tenant. They would be ours, or they would not be in the room.

Do not take a cash “takeover” and keep your name on the lease while you live in another city. You remain the person we will phone, and the person the inspection will address, until the agreement actually changes.

Housemates

If a stranger has a remote and a drawer, tell the house contact. If you are unsafe, SAPS first. Do not start a fake leak ticket to force a conversation. Use ordinary words, in writing. Use Security on Report a fault only if there is a lock, a breach or immediate danger.

Do not open a fight in the passage over someone else’s illegal sublet at 23:00. Leave if you need to. Phone +27 60 313 6961.

Staff and listings

Walk vacancies. A “friend finishing the term” is occupancy. Do not publish the room as available while that person sleeps there. Do not confirm a new official booking on top of an unofficial one because the warning “always does that.”

If you discover a sublet, do not paste identity numbers into the ticket. Unit, names as you have them, dates, what keys exist. Letters that demand someone leave need the lease and, where required, a proper process. Changing a status on the desk is not an eviction.

Never take a commission for introducing an unofficial lodger. Never sell a tenant list.

People looking for a cheap bed

If someone offers you a ManjeProp room on a chat group, come to properties or call the site number. Pay the business, on the business banking details, after a viewing and a written agreement. Do not EFT a student because the photo looks like a listing photo.

If the lock already feels like too many copies exist, walk away or ask us to change the cylinder before anyone pays.

Money that makes it worse

A cash “takeover fee” paid to a leaving student is not a deposit we hold. We cannot refund it. We may not even know it happened until a stranger has a remote. If someone asks you for that fee, stop and come to the official enquiry.

If you already paid a student, keep your proof and get advice. The fault form will not recover the money. The enquiry form will not either, but it will start an honest occupancy check.

Faults in a room that was sublet

The person living there should still send a fault. A leak does not wait for the paperwork to be honest. We will still attend a flood. We will also start the occupancy conversation.

Do not hide the unofficial occupant because you are embarrassed. A geyser overflowing does not care. A locksmith needs to know how many copies of the key exist.

Subletting without the paper is how two households, one deposit and no keys meet on a Saturday. Use the official door.

Enquire on the listings page. Report locks and leaks on the fault form.