Breaking a HUBB NYC Lease: Assignment or Sublet?

Step 1 · Permission

Ask about an assignment and, if useful, an internal transfer.

Email info@hubbnyc.com or call 646-937-5050. Include the address, apartment, leaseholders, lease end date, and preferred move date.

If you intend to return, request a sublet instead. If one roommate is leaving, identify who stays and ask for the appropriate leaseholder-change documents. Follow your lease’s notice method.

Step 2 · Written terms

Get a clear offer for the replacement or destination apartment.

• Rent and dates: approved price, start, end, concessions, and recurring charges.
• Application: qualification requirements, documents, and submission link.
• Costs: any assignment or transfer charge, final rent, and security.
• Release: your old lease’s end date and treatment of each departing tenant and guarantor.

For an internal move, ask what happens if the new apartment is delayed or your plans change. Do not leave the old lease’s end dependent on an informal reservation.

Assignment or internal transfer?

An internal move needs two sets of terms; an assignment brings in a replacement.

The HUBB website promotes transfers between its buildings. Compare the destination’s full rent, term, charges, and move dates with the option of finding an outside replacement.

For an internal transfer, confirm how the old lease ends alongside the new agreement. Assignment and subletting follow different New York consent rules; a temporary sublet generally keeps you responsible for the prime lease.

Step 3 · Qualification

Check the requirements for the apartment being applied for.

Ask leasing for the income, credit, and guarantor criteria. Confirm whether household income can be combined, which records or lawful alternatives are accepted, and whether the unit has an admission program.

For an internal move, ask what new review is required. For an outside replacement, check the candidate’s dates, household, pets, guarantor needs, and document readiness before starting the application.

Step 4 · Application

Use the link issued for the replacement or internal move.

HUBB’s site has separate resident and applicant links. Ask the team to send the correct application and checklist for the approved apartment rather than starting an unrelated vacancy application.

• Check the apartment, approved rent, term, and proposed start.
• Include everyone applying, occupying, or guaranteeing the lease.
• Have applicants send records directly through the designated channel.
• Ask for confirmation of completeness and the remaining approval and signing steps.

If you are transferring internally, make sure the new application and old-lease release are being coordinated by the team.

Step 5 · Find the replacement

Confirm whether management wants an outside renter for the old apartment.

Ask for advertising permission and the approved rent, dates, charges, and applicant requirements. If you are moving internally, find out whether management will handle the old apartment or authorize a replacement search.

• Photos: show the occupied apartment and its condition accurately.
• Access: agree on showing notice, hours, attendance, and keys.
• Readiness: settle cleaning, repairs, and what furniture can stay.
• Incentives: document any outgoing payment separately from the rent.

Keep the proposed start conditional on approval, signed documents, required payments, and apartment readiness.

Fees and security

Compare the full move cost, including any overlap between apartments.

Get the assignment, internal-transfer, or termination proposal in writing. Ask what is payable, when it is due, and what happens if the new agreement does not complete.

• Rent: your old apartment’s last day, the new start, and any overlap or proration.
• Security: whether deposits are refunded, credited, or collected separately.
• Moving and services: mover costs, utilities, access devices, and account changes.
• Brokerage: the marketing work and fee 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.

Approval and handoff

Close the old tenancy even when your next apartment is also with HUBB.

Coordinate applicant review, signatures, required payments, any work, and possession. For an internal move, confirm the old end and new start together.

• Check the release for every departing tenant and guarantor.
• Photograph the old apartment and finish agreed clearing or repairs.
• Arrange the move, keys, fobs, intercom access, and utilities.
• Provide forwarding details and keep the old apartment’s final ledger and security accounting.

Keep the signed agreements and confirmation that their conditions have been met. A destination reservation or new resident account does not by itself close the old lease.

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.