You can rent out your apartment to another student in certain situations. This can be either:
- Intermediate rental: Someone else rents your whole apartment temporarily.
- Subletting: Someone rents just part of your apartment and you live in the apartment during the lease.
Subletting
- Rental allowed to a person deemed suitable by the resident.
- Rental contract can be concluded for an indefinite period
- Rental allowed with prior approval of PSOAS
Intermediate Rental
Summer (May 1 – August 31)
- You can rent to anyone you choose
- Rental allowed with prior approval of PSOAS
Academic year (September 1 – April 30)
- You can only rent to another student
- Only allowed for work practice, exchange period, military service, or civil service
- Short term rental allowed for other reasons, e.g. visiting home country
- Rental allowed with prior approval of PSOAS
How to Rent the Apartment
- Fill out the rental agreement form.
- Send a draft to the PSOAS housing office to obtain written approval.
- Sign the agreement with the intermediate/sub-tenant.
- Send a copy of the lease to the PSOAS Housing Office before the rental period begins.
Important Rules to Follow
Money rules
- You cannot make a profit from renting
- Charge the same rent that PSOAS charges you
- You can add reasonable costs (maximum 50 € per month)
- The subtenant pays rent to the main tenant, who pays rent to PSOAS
Electricity
- Keep the electricity contract in your name
- Your tenant cannot get their own electricity contract
What you cannot do
- Rent out if you no longer need the apartment yourself
- Rent out without a valid reason
- Exchange apartments with other tenants
- Continue renting if you’re no longer a student or moved elsewhere.
- You may not sublet or sublease the apartment without a valid reason or if you no longer need the apartment.
- NOTE: If the main tenant is no longer a student, has moved permanently to another apartment, or no longer needs the apartment for the purpose for which it was originally rented, the tenancy agreement must be terminated.
Choosing your subtenant
Why it matters
- You’re still responsible for everything that happens in the apartment.
- PSOAS will hold you accountable for any problems
- Choose someone you trust
What to do
- Check their credit history (use services like Suomen Asiakastieto)
- Ask for a security deposit
- Make sure they understand the rules
Remember
- When your rental agreement with PSOAS ends, your subtenant must leave. Subtenants have no right to stay in the apartment.
- PSOAS is not a party to the sublease agreement. A subtenant or intermediate tenant is not a tenant of PSOAS, but is in a contractual relationship with the main tenant of PSOAS.
- The exchange of keys takes place between the main tenant and the subtenant. PSOAS does not act as a key intermediary. If keys are lost, the subtenant is liable to compensate the main tenant.
- In the event of a dispute, PSOAS does not act as a mediator.
- If the subtenant wishes to rent a parking space or other amenities, that would result in an increase to the monthly fee, they must obtain written consent from the main tenant.
- You remain fully responsible for the apartment during subletting.
What happens if the rules are not followed?
PSOAS can end your rental agreement if you don’t follow these rules.
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