The seng system is also used to sub-let rented land and houses, where tenants transfer their tenancy rights via a seng transaction to a sub-tenant. In this arrangement, the sub-tenant usually pays a big pae jia to the original tenant, but then takes over the payment of the monthly rent to the landlord. This kind of sub-letting via seng happens all the time in slums, in small private housing rentals, in public social housing
projects and in commercial housing rentals, but it’s often done without any legal basis