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Yeah, that's ridiculous. I don't know of any carpets that are still of good quality after they have been used for 15-20 years. Usually by that point they are threadbare and dying to be replaced. As you are renting out a property, you need to keep the place nice, and replace the carpets at the very least, every ten years. on your own dime! That's ridiculous charging your tenants 50% of the cost of the carpet when they were already 10 years old. My husband and I also rent out a property, and after five years our management company said, okay, carpets are wearing thin, it is time to replace them. So we did. We didn't charge the tenant for them even though the last tenant utterly destroyed everything in the house! Because the carpets were five-six years old by then so it was time for them to be replaced. Although I do agree that the debating is what courts are for, but if landlords and tenants can work together, there is no need to go to court. Right now I'm in the process of writing a last letter to the landlord. I have all of my facts and laws that I need to have, and I know in a moral and legal sense that my husband and I are in the right, and the court case will most likely go our way. That doesn't mean that I want to go to court... if our landlord would just do the right thing, then we wouldn't be in this situation. but anyway...
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