Change in the number of tenants between the advertisement and reality
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Question
Shalom,
I want to rent an apartment, and in the advertisement it says how many people can live in the apartment. May I advertise a lower number of people than will actually live there?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha,
In practice, you must ultimately tell the landlord how many people will be living in the apartment, even if in the advertisement
you stated something different.
Source
In Siman 316, se’if 1, it is explained that the landlord is particular about the number of tenants living in his house, and that even though a tenant who rented a house is permitted to sublet it, he is not permitted to sublet it to a greater number of tenants than he himself had.
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