Breaking a Citi-Urban Lease: Assignment or Sublet?

Step 1 · Permission

Ask the tenancy team to coordinate your exit with incoming leasing.

For current lease questions, the official contact page lists leasing@citi-urban.com. Include the apartment, leaseholders, lease end, and desired departure. Ask which Jonis representative will handle the replacement.

Say whether everyone leaves, one roommate changes, or you intend to return. Follow the notice method in your lease. Keep your outgoing request on record alongside the candidate’s application.

Step 2 · Written terms

Set the replacement offer and the accepted screening basis.

• Rent and dates: approved price, remaining term or new lease, concessions, charges, and start conditions.
• Qualification: household treatment, accepted rent allocation, records, and guarantor requirements.
• Application: current checklist, submission link, and designated representative.
• Exit: final rent, costs, security, and release of departing tenants and guarantors.

Ask who can confirm owner consent and sign the release. If one roommate leaves, get the amendment addressing that person’s obligations before treating an occupant update as complete.

Assignment or sublet?

Choose the agreement that matches the move.

Assignment and subletting follow different New York consent rules. Rent-regulated and admission-restricted apartments can have additional rules or exclusions. Confirm the procedure for your actual unit before offering either route.

Step 3 · Qualification

Keep annual income, liquid assets, and guarantor requirements distinct.

The ordinary leasing guide uses these references for the applicant’s monthly rent portion:

• Annual income: at least 40 times that portion.
• Liquid assets: more than 80 times that portion.

Ask management which allocation it accepts, what counts as income or liquid assets, which alternatives are accepted, and what any guarantor must provide. Confirm housing-program requirements where applicable. Screening arithmetic does not by itself define liability under the lease or guaranty.

Step 4 · Application

Use the Jonis route issued for this unit and agreement.

The Jonis application page provides building selection and calls for tenant and guarantor applications. Ask the representative to identify the correct unit, approved rent, term, and proposed start.

• Prepare the requested application, ID, and applicable income or student records.
• The leasing guide says additional records may include an employer letter, three months of bank summaries, and proof of the last two salary payments.
• Use the authorized verification channel and ask for alternatives when needed.
• Confirm missing items, completeness, the decision, and remaining signing and payment steps.

Have candidates submit sensitive records directly to the authorized team. Do not email banking credentials or circulate a full financial file among people arranging showings.

Step 5 · Find the replacement

Agree on the listing route with management and the designated representative.

Citi-Urban’s site identifies Jonis/JRL NYC as its exclusive listing brokerage. Ask how that arrangement applies to your proposed replacement before publishing or engaging marketing services.

• Terms: use approved rent, dates, concessions, charges, and applicant requirements.
• Photos: show the actual apartment and condition.
• Access: agree on showing notice, hours, attendance, and keys.
• Incentives: document any outgoing payment separately from owner rent.

Keep possession conditional on approvals, signatures, payments, and readiness. Confirm each broker’s role and the permitted fee arrangement before marketing.

Fees and security

Get a complete exit proposal alongside the application charge.

Request an itemized assignment or termination proposal. Ask what each amount covers, who receives it, when it is due, and what happens if the candidate withdraws or the incoming start changes.

• Final rent: the last day charged and any agreed proration.
• Security: outgoing refund or credit, incoming deposit, and deductions.
• Account: approved credits and the final balance.
• Services: moving costs and permitted brokerage work agreed in writing.

For covered screening, New York law limits reimbursement to actual cost or $20, whichever is less, with report, receipt, and recent-report waiver requirements. NYC’s FARE Act guidance prohibits passing a landlord’s agent’s fees to prospective renters.

Approval and handoff

Close the old tenancy while the incoming agreement is completed.

Coordinate the applicant decision, owner consent, signatures, required payments, and possession. Ask the tenancy team to confirm that the conditions for releasing you have been met.

• Check the executed agreement for each departing tenant and guarantor.
• Photograph the condition and finish agreed clearing or repairs.
• Arrange move reservations, keys, fobs, and utilities.
• Provide forwarding details and retain the final ledger and security accounting.

If the household or dates change, have the tenancy team and designated representative update the plan. Keep the signed agreements and completion confirmation.

Find a replacement renter

I can help turn management’s terms into a listing and a qualified applicant.

I prepare the listing, manage inquiries and showings, screen prospective renters, and help the selected applicant complete management’s requirements. Management makes the approval decision. My role and broker fee are agreed in writing before marketing starts.

Send the address, rent, lease end date, preferred move date, and management’s reply.

Discuss my lease

For the broader legal options, see the NYC lease-break guide.