I do not recommend allowing anyone to sublet without permission and if so add them to the lease. Otherwise you may end up with a mess.A North Carolina sublease agreement is a legal contract that allows a tenant to act as a sublessor and rent their leased property to another tenant. If you have a lease for a set term, like one year, you can sublet with or without your landlord's permission, unless they prohibit this in the written lease. The Bottom Line: North Carolina property law does not specifically prohibit nor permit subletting, so what your lease reads matters. Read your lease to determine your subletting rights. Have you guys ever sublet an apartment for the summer without your landlord knowing ? It states in my lease that I cannot do so. As long as the original lease doesn't ban subletting, a sublessor can rent out their property to someone else with the landlord's permission. It depends on the terms of the original lease with the landlord; namely, whether it allows subleases.