Subletting Laws in Wisconsin

According to Wisconsin landlord-tenant laws, anyone on a month-to-month or verbal lease cannot sublet unless they get the landlord's consent. The laws in Wisconsin are silent on fixed-term tenancies of more than one year¹.

In all types of tenancies, Wisconsin landlords are obligated to rerent when a tenant breaches a lease. This means that if a tenant breaches a lease by subletting without permission (or abandons the property) their landlord can't claim financial damages from them unless the landlord has made a good-faith effort to find someone new to move in and pay the rent.¹

[1] 2021-22 Wisconsin Statutes §704.09(1)

[2] 2021-22 Wisconsin Statutes §704.29(4)(d)