Question

A tenant rents an apartment under a two-year written lease. Three months after signing the lease, the tenant is transferred to another country for a year. During this period, the tenant leases the apartment to a friend. The friend mails monthly rent checks to the tenant, who continues to make monthly rental payments to the landlord. In this situation, the tenant's friend has

Answer 1

Sublease

Step-by-step explanation:

A sublease is the renting of the property again from a tenant that already rented to someone else before but now it is rented to the third party i..e new for the portion of the existed lease contract of the tenant

Since in the given situation, the tenant lease the apartment to the friend. And the monthly rental payment is to be made to the landlord

So this given situation represent the sublease scenario.