Adding a roommate

[Tim Johnson]

Hi BP!  I ran into a situation I hadn't encountered before.  I'm looking for a little advice.

A long-term tenant (and decent fellow) contact me to say he wanted to get a roommate.  I explained that the new roommate would have to apply ($30) as we needed to do a criminal background check.  Everyone was fine with that...the background and credit check came back clean.

I was going to add him to the year lease, but the current tenant didn't want that.  He wanted the ability to kick the guy out if it wasn't working out (or if the guy turned out to be a crappy roommate).

So, in this case, would you:

1. Add him to the year lease and tell long-term tenant that's how it has to be?

2. Leave the new guy off the lease.

3. Switch them to month-to-month for some reason?

4. Amend the year lease to convey "kick out" powers to tenant #1?  I doubt this is even a thing?

The apartments are in Minnesota if that matters...

Thanks in advance!