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Old 18-11-14, 02:42 PM   #10
Spank86
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Default Re: Landlords

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Originally Posted by SvNewbie View Post
Personally after 2 years in a flat (assuming the same tenant for the length of the carpet) I'd be ****ed off it they tried to charge me for the replacement of the carpet. It's like scratching a rental car and being asked to pay for a complete respray rather than a small charge proportional to the actual loss. Fact is the carpet still fulfils all of the functions it needs to except slight cosmetic damage. Unless the tenant was negligent (having a pet against letting agreement or slaughtering goats in the front room).
It's more like scratching a rental car and having to pay to have the panel resprayed.

Which is what would happen. He's not asking for new carpets throughout the house, just the one that has been damaged.
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