[SuperUberBob]

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Bob,

I'm super confused here. You say:

"During the summer, many students who live in apartments sublet their rooms. People stay in their apartment rooms and pay the students a monthly cost to do so."

And then in the next paragraph talk about how one of your roommates did that and it was breaking the rules? I'm seriously confused here and read it a bunch of times. And I think otb is too so at least if I'm dumb I'm in good company.

Also, eff paying that extremely steep, probably unenforceable fine. That's ridiculously steep for college students.

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People who own these apartment complexes get a huge chunk of money from students having to pay these fines. They are obscenely high. You should see some of the fines that are levied if the apartment isn't properly cleaned when the lease expires. The owners are easily multi-millionaires.

Subletting dictates that you are actually leaving the apartment yourself and you're renting out your unoccupied room to somebody else. Joe did not do that. He maintained residence at the apartment while allowing his friend to essentially squat here as well for a small cost. Hence the difference.