My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: South Dakota
I rent from a guy who owns a house but rents rooms to 3 (me included) unrelated adults.
Due to some personal issues, and finding out he refuses to maintain the house and has stopped paying his portion of utilities because he is currently living in Iowa (not what we agreed on!), I want to break my lease.
I asked him if I could go if I found someone to rent out my room for him. He said yes, and then proceeded to say that (after I found 7+ people to rent the room) he's not going to let "just anybody" live in his house. And that there were two that were "old. One is 32, one is 37."
Can he really refuse people to take over my lease if they're "old"? I'm not even comfortable living there!
Please help.

