Sublet your home – Einar Mattsson

How to apply to Einar Mattsson

Apply in writing before the sublet starts, and wait for the answer in writing. Verbal permission is worth nothing the day there is a dispute.

• State your reason, and be concrete: studies or work elsewhere, a trial cohabitation, care of a relative, a long trip, illness.
• State the period, with a start and an end date. Permission is always time-limited.
• Name the person taking over, with their personal identity number.
• Send it to Einar Mattsson through whatever channel is on your contract.
• Keep the written answer. It is the document that proves the sublet is lawful.

A private landlord, the same law

Einar Mattsson is privately owned. The statute is identical to the municipal companies’; what differs between companies is the routine around the application. Use the channel named in your own contract, and ask for the answer in writing whatever the channel was.

If the answer is no

A refused application can be taken to the rent tribunal (hyresnämnden). It grants permission when you have substantial reasons (beaktansvärda skäl) and the landlord has no justified cause to refuse. Applying there is free.

What you must not do is sublet anyway. An unauthorised sublet is grounds for terminating your own contract, and charging an unreasonable rent on top of it is a criminal offence.

What you may charge

• You may charge what you pay yourself, and no more.
• Furnished, you may add up to about 15 % of the rent.
• Electricity, broadband and a parking space may be charged at cost, itemised separately.
• Overcharging is not merely refundable: since 2019 it is a criminal offence, and the tenant can reclaim the excess through the rent tribunal.

Contract, notice and security of tenure

• Always a written contract. It is what protects both of you.
• Subletting a rental flat falls under the rent act: three months’ notice, and the sub-tenant gains security of tenure after two years unless it has been waived with the rent tribunal’s approval.
• Your home insurance has to know. Several insurers require notice before a sublet, and a claim can be refused without it.

Tax

Rental income from your own home is taxed as capital income at 30 %, but only on the surplus. You deduct a standard allowance of SEK 40,000 per year, plus the rent or monthly fee attributable to what you let out. Most ordinary sublets end up with nothing to pay. Declare it anyway.

Find your sub-tenant

With permission in hand, publish the home on Bofrid. Listing is free, everyone is verified with BankID, and you talk to applicants before you choose.

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