The phrase "as sublet" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a situation involving subletting, but it lacks context and clarity.
Example: "The apartment was originally leased to me, but I decided to rent it out as sublet to a friend."
Alternatives: "as a sublease" or "in a subletting arrangement".
It's as simple as subletting on Craigslist, with a lower risk of bunking with a murderer.
"It also means, as far as subletting is concerned," Mr. Taylor said, "that the boards are going to have to be very careful".
Dominated by the financial services sector, primarily in Stamford and Greenwich, Fairfield's office market has been affected more by the floundering stock market and economic recession that produced downsizing of area companies and a flood of space returned as sublets.
According to Halstead Property, the number of furnished apartments in its database — which includes rentals by co-op and condo owners, as well as sublets by other renters — jumped by more than 50percentt from the first six months of 2008 to the same period this year.
They own a one-bedroom at 555 West 23rd Street, which they sublet, as well as a loft in the nearby Spears Building, one of the neighborhood's first conversions, which their son Austin calls home.
Sonic Foundry has laid off 200 people in a series of cuts and is anxious to sublet, as are other major local companies.
After she moved upstate to live with her son and his family, the place was offered as a sublet on Craigslist.
A "From a legal point of view, a swap is the same as a sublet," said David Ng, a Manhattan landlord-tenant lawyer.
This includes nearly 238,000 square feet at 10 Exchange Place, where a number of full-floor tenants have leases expiring in the first quarter of next year, and 135,000 square feet at 480 Washington Boulevard as a sublet from UBS Paine Webber, which is downsizing.
The overall vacancy rate — covering sublet space as well as space that is available directly from landlords — has widened more for Class A buildings in Midtown than for Class B. But that is primarily because the market was very tight for the most sought-after space one year ago.
