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shuixiao
My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Iowa
I moved in this apartment unit 3 years ago and the carpet was old and stain everywhere. When we had move-out walk through with the manager two weeks ago, the manager told me that the carpet is too dirty to clean and she believe the stain can't be removed. So she is going to replace the carpet and said I don't need to clean the carpet. Then I clean everything else except the carpet and move out.
Then she sent me a bill after two days and charged me $340 for carpet trashed and $160 for stain remove. She clearly verbally and also confirmed it in the email that she is going to replace the carpet. But she doesn't want to prorate the carpet replacement fee, just charge me the cleaning fee which actually she didn't do it.
Per the average carpet lifespan is 5-7 years, and she need to provide me evidence on how old the carpet was. So I guess I would pay less than $500 after prorate the value. But she think if there is the stain, whatever she replace or clean it, she still has right to charge me the carpet cleaning fee. Does it make sense??
My thought is I would pay the cleaning if you clean it. Pay the replacement fee if you replace it.
Thank you for any advice on it.