Most students’ summer plans involve leaving Ames, which leaves them with the burden of finding someone to sublease their apartment or house.

If the tenant cannot find anyone to sublease, they suffer the consequence of paying the full rent throughout the season.

Liz Bryan, junior in apparel merchandising, design and production, said despite several attempts she can not find anyone to sublease her apartment on Steinbeck Street.

“I sent out a mass e-mail to everyone I know and tried to use word-of-mouth through my girlfriends and guy friends,” Bryan said.

Brooke Sornsen, junior in pre-advertising, said finding a person to sublease is very difficult. Last summer, she was able to find three men to take the places of her and her two roommates when they moved out of Cyclone Plaza, 200 Stanton Ave. The three men were moving in with two women who were living there for the summer.

“It was especially challenging for us because we needed more than one person,” Sornsen said. “We wanted the people who were moving in to be friends.”

Betsy Huisenga, freshman in pre-advertising, was one of the females living with the three subleasing men for the summer.

“It was a little awkward at first, because we didn’t know them very well,” Huisenga said .

She said she had to make some adjustments to living with males for the first time.

“They were younger, so when we would go to the bars, they would have people over a lot,” Huisenga said. “And they didn’t clean very often.”

Subleasing requires a short procedure of some paper work and paying a fee.

Shayla Oberender, associate manager of First Property Management, 258 Hyland Ave., said subleasers go through the same process of filling out an application that the original tenants fill out. She said the names aren’t switched on the lease, but the subleaser initials at the bottom that they have agreed to take the responsibility of living in the apartment for certain months.

There is a $50 fee per sublease.

Sornsen said it’s important to have the new names on the lease so the original tenant is not held accountable for any damage that may happen.

Oberender said they give the choice to the original tenants about how they want to handle the damage deposit.

“They can leave their deposit for the subleaser, the subleaser can pay them, or they can get back their deposit and have the subleaser pay a new deposit,” Oberender said.

Summer is a good time to get a place at a cheaper rate than usual.

“I was pretty desperate at the time,” Sornsen said when it came to payment agreements. “I paid the first month’s rent, and they paid for the rest of the summer.”

Bryan said she has even cut the monthly rent she will require a subleaser to pay by a third. She has offered to keep her bed, dresser and desk there.

Oberender said that as long as the full 12-month lease is paid for, it is up to the tenants and their subleasers how they want to divide up the rent.

Sornsen said the best place to find a possible subleaser for the summer is from the greek community.

Bryan said she wants to put a flyer in all the sorority houses because she knows they are required to move out for the summer.

“We went to all of our friends living in various [greek] houses first,” she said.