Tenancy

[Mumof2boys2018]

Hi everyone I was wondering if anyone could help me out
We’ve recently moved out of our old rented home as we’ve now brought a house
We lived there for three years and in the last year we replaced the carpets in the lounge, stairs, and the second bedroom.
After doing so the landlord said I should of asked if I wanted new carpet as I shouldn’t of had to pay for them..
so now we’ve moved out they are re renting it again but kept all my carpets my blinds and my curtains. I was curious if there was anyway I could get my money back for the carpets considering she said I shouldn’t of had to pay for them in the first place??
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I think very unlikely that you get money back. Really you should have got landlord to assess and replace carpet if required. There is no evidence it needed replacing or that landlord wouldn’t replace them. You may need to put it down to lesson learned.

In conversation did landlord indicate they were happy with the replacement? You could ask them for something towards it, but you are not entitled to anything I don’t think. Sorry 😐

Ah ok I see, and yes they loved all the carpets, definitely lesson learned I think, the stairs carpets had come away from the stairs and they were all abit worse for wear to be honest but I didn’t realise the landlord would replace until it was to late ☹️

Technically the landlord could deduct money from your deposit for the cost of removing the new carpet and replacing it with one identical to the one that was there before (with allowances made for betterment). This sort of thing typically arises when the tenant has repainted some tired magnolia wallpaper in a fetching shade of fuchsia, but it can also technically happen with anything else like carpets