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You're making a lot of assumptions here. As a landlord I would just evict you if you tried to do this with my property. My lease and most other leases say no subleases for this reason. On what planet would I manage my own property for a renter and hand over all the revenue to them?

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It was only a few sentences long, how did you miss all the facts? OP stated that he would have landlord be part of it ("have them manage the Airbnb") and they would do this because they would make money ("and they'd get a cut of the proceeds"), but before proceeding with asking about it the OP will check the lease ("I'd need to check the lease to see if I'm allowed to do it anyway").

Not all landlords are the same. I have a friend who rents a place in Venice and the landlord told them they could airbnb the in-law addition if they had no use for it. Presumably the person on the lease is on the hook for any damages anyways.

OP said he'd get the landlord's permission. Besides, OP is already paying rent for the entire property, for the entire month. The way you use the term "my property" makes it sound like you can walk into your tenant's homes without their permission because, well, it's your property.

OP makes it clear he would work together with the landlord on this.

Yeah, the landlords live 30 feet from us and we have a great relationship with them. So I would just ask them and if they said no, then I wouldn't do it.

As I mentioned in another comment, I was thinking of taking my family to another country for a month and renting the place out for that entire month to a single renter to help reduce some of the costs.

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