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Switching rooms and subletting

Switching room or apartment

In Sit you can change from one Sit housing to another without notice. In order for the system to register such an internal move, the main rule is that the points below must be met. (NB! exceptions exist - find answers in the frequently asked questions at the very bottom of the page.)

You must be up to date with your payments
You must book a new housing with the same user that your current contract is registered to.
You must book a new housing before terminating your current contract.

Here's how to do it:

First sign the contract for the new housing
Then terminate your current contract and select an end date.
The earliest end date must be the same date as the new contract starts. If you need more than one day to move, you can set a later end date. You will only pay double rent for the days that both contracts are active.

Subletting

Subletting means that another student lives in your housing for a period of time while you remain the tenant. You keep full responsibility and are liable to Sit for any damages or other issues that may occur during the subletting period.

The subtenant must be a student.
The subletting arrangement must be approved by Sit Bolig before the subtenant moves in.
You cannot charge the subtenant a higher rent than the amount you pay for the accommodation.

Rent and electricity

You will continue to receive the rent invoice from Sit and must arrange payment directly with your subtenant.
The electricity subscription must remain in your name. You are therefore responsible for charging the subtenant for any electricity costs. The subtenant must not sign up for their own electricity contract.

How to apply for subletting

Before subletting your housing, you must contact us through our contact form and inform us of the following:

Name
Telephone number
Email
Sublease period
Proof that the sub-lessee is a student (student indentification card, etc.)

Once Sit Bolig has approved the subletting arrangement, the subtenant may move in.

Recommendations

Sit Bolig accommodates friends wanting to move together in shared flats.

Recommending a friend into your shared flat

If you know that a room in your shared apartment will be vacant and you want a friend to move in, you must submit a recommendation, preferably before the room in question is announced.

If the room becomes available and the recommendation is approved, your friend will receive an email from us containing a reservation code for booking that specific room. Please note that the deadline for booking the room will be rather short.

NB: Please note that there is no guarantee that your friend will be able to book the room.

Important information before registering a recommendation

To be able to recommend a friend into a shared flat, you yourself must be a tenant in the same flat
It is only possible to recommend one friend into each room in the flat
It is not possible to recommend the same friend into several rooms in the same flat

Living with friends

If you and one or more of your friends want to move in together, do the following:

Log in to bolig.sit.no and find a shared apartment in the overview that has several available rooms.
Either you can send links of other rooms in the same shared apartment to the others you want to live with, or you can all sit together and each choose your own room in the same shared apartment.
You can see if there are other vacant rooms in the shared apartment by entering a room, scroll down the page, under «other rooms in the shared apartment». There you can see if a room is vacant or not.

Please be aware that it can take a very long time for a shared apartment to be completely vacated. We recommend that you choose vacant rooms in different apartments if you can't find enough vacancies in one apartment. You can then take your time looking for rooms in the same shared apartment together without worrying about not having a room at all. Please note there is no notice period when moving between rooms in Sit, but you will briefly have to pay two deposits, due to how the booking process works.