Articles tagged: "sublease"

1: Legalese Explained: Obligations Of A Lease Assignment And “Covenants Running With The Land"

If you are a tenant and you assign your house lease to somebody else (a “third party”), your assignment of your lease contract does not relieve you of your obligations to the original landlord If, for example, you assign your lease to Ralph and Ralph doesn’t pay the rent, the landlord can come after you for the money even though you don’t live there anymore