Landlord charging to replace carpet (apartment, tenant, deposit, management)

[Jayto]

I lived in an apartment after someone who owned dogs and signed the checklist the day I moved in (made me). Well a week later stains came up and they said they would redo it (never did). Anyhow after living there for over a year another person buying it and a property management team taking over, they want to keep my $500 deposit (fine with that) and want to charge me and additional $800+ dollars for having to replace the carpet. We shampooed that carpet often because it was embarassing and paid 150 dollars to have the apartment cleaned by a professional. Can they charge me for the carpet considering I was not the only tenant to have lived in that apartment?

P.S. I live in Oregon

[mquintana]

Yes. The carpet life is 5 yrs. You should be charged a prorate on the life of the carpet, not the full price. Now, if you know the previous resident had pets, you can dispute it (especially if you had no pets). What are they keeping your $500 dep. for? Is it other charges? If those charges are not resonalble, dispute those and then some of your deposit can apply to the carpet replacement. The downfall on your part is you did not stay on them about getting your carpet cleaning.

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Originally Posted by Jayto

I lived in an apartment after someone who owned dogs and signed the checklist the day I moved in (made me). Well a week later stains came up and they said they would redo it (never did). Anyhow after living there for over a year another person buying it and a property management team taking over, they want to keep my $500 deposit (fine with that) and want to charge me and additional $800+ dollars for having to replace the carpet. We shampooed that carpet often because it was embarassing and paid 150 dollars to have the apartment cleaned by a professional. Can they charge me for the carpet considering I was not the only tenant to have lived in that apartment?

P.S. I live in Oregon

They cannot charge you for normal wear and tear. If the carpet was in bad shape before you moved in, that is not your fault.

They offered to replace the carpet while you were living there, which tells you they were aware of the problem.

If what your saying is true, I would fight it.

Woofers