Hello,
I'm a long-time rent-stabilized tenant at a building in NYC. I've not been in NYC and not interested in NYC and have been legally subletting my unit furnished to an acquaintance for some years. This subletter wants me to put them on the lease with me next year, which I do not want to do. Nor do I really want to continue subletting my furnished unit to them. No buyout has been offered by landlord.
Is there any forum or means by which I could trade my stabilized unit to someone in another city, where they have a non-stabilized but preferential rent unit?
And if and when I could find someone to trade to—how would I even go about doing this without putting this new stranger on the lease alongside me, since me giving up the unit and moving out of it and then shepherding them to it would mean I would have no way to "give" them the unit and would also precipitate a vacancy increase?
Please advise.