Nick Perry warns landlords to avoid carpet in rental units. Tenants tear and stain it during turnover, making replacements expensive and hard to match. Perry learned this the hard way after carpeting every bedroom in his early career.
Never, ever, ever put this type of flooring in your rental properties. They get damaged easily, are hard to find in stores depending on the one you got, and are super expensive. The flooring I'm talking about is carpets. See, early in my career, I used to put carpet in all the bedrooms, which was a big mistake because at the end of each lease or eviction, they always ended up torn. So I always would have to replace them, which isn't as simple as going to Home Depot because it's so difficult to actually find a matching carpet. And that's why you should
