We recently moved into a home that seemed nice, and was freshly painted. When I vacuumed the carpet, I would vacuum up a large amount of carpet fibers. I spoke with the landlord and he said that the house had been sitting empty for several years before he bought it. He had a company come in to steam clean the carpets.
The carpet looks fine from the surface, but I continued to get huge amounts of fiber when vacuuming. I asked the cleaning company what was going on and they said that there was dry rot of the carpet, and that the fibers were coming from the bottom of the carpet. They said that there is nothing that they can do about the problem, and that the only solution is to replace the carpet.
My landlord says that the carpet looks fine and won't replace it. Can I make my landlord replace rotten carpet? This is in Arizona.

