Can a landlord ask you to pay to replace the carpet on an entirely floor of a house, for 1 small stain?

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Our carpet has a stain of one square inch, very light grey, hardly noticeable, by the door, caused probably by someone walking in with shoes. (normal wear and tear?) Can the landlord make us pay to recarpet the entire floor, arguing it’s all one piece of carpet?
He’s charging us 00 to replace it, deposit goes nowhere near covering it… says he put in expensive carpet… It was supposed to be wood flooring in the first place though, so we wouldnt have that problem… we signed the lease under the condition he’d replace it… not until a month later were we told he wouldn’t do it after all, because it would take too much time and money to level his uneven floor. So then we were stuck with a two year lease, and carpet, for which we now have to pay 00.

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  1. quick_sand says:

    Read the lease!!!!……Was the carpet brand new…Will steam cleaning it remove the spot…..I ran an apartment complex, if it is not in the lease, to replace the entire carpet, the landlord is jerking you around….He is just trying to keep the deposit and screw you further…Read your lease, and if he gets cocky, It’s about $57.00 to file a small claims suit…..tell him you’ll take him to court….AND, GET A PICTURE OF THE ENTIRE CARPET, IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!…..that way he can’t go in and ruin it on you while no one is there….

  2. Smiley says:

    Sounds like killing the spider on the mirror with a big hammer.

    Get LL to replace carpet and you’ll pay a portion of it….1 square inch.

  3. Computer Jock says:

    Sure, they can ask anything they want. But whether you have to or not is purely a matter of the agreement you signed when you moved in. Read it and see what it has to say. If it doesn’t say anything about this subject, tell him to pound sand.

    However, common decency says you should make best effort to clean the stain up. If it’s normal wear and tear, I doubt your lease agreement requires you to do much other than normal cleaning.

  4. rossb76 says:

    Land lord can do that, but carpet installer can replace a small patch like that for less than $30.00

  5. hippiechick says:

    isnt that what your security deposit is for ?
    did you sigh a lease indicating you would pay for minimal repairs?

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