Get Longer Life Out Of Your Rental Property Carpets

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As a rental property owner, you most likely want to preserve the flooring in your rental properties for as long as you can. It can be expensive and frustrating to replace carpets often. Carpets do get worn out quickly after just a couple of tenants, especially if they were there for a long time, or if they had inside pets. However, here are a few tips on how you can preserve the carpets in your rental properties so that you don’t need to have them replaced as often.

Provide The Vacuum
Make sure your tenants have a vacuum and that they use it regularly. If they don’t have one, you could rent them one on a monthly basis, or you could even invest in one that can remain at the rental property. Dirt will embed itself in the carpet if it is not vacuumed on a weekly basis, especially if your tenants have children or pets.

Recommend Effective Carpet Cleaning Products
Carpet stains happen to everyone, a dinner plate could drop, wine or grape juice could be spilled, or mud gets tracked into the property by the kids or the family pet. By providing a carpet cleaning solution recommendation, or even cleaning solution samples, it will encourage your tenant to attend to the mishap as soon as it happens. Most of the products on the market do explain use their product in the correct manner to neutralize stains. You can also remind your tenants that even though normal wear and tear on the flooring is expected, serious stains or damage can be their responsibility to remedy.

Schedule Professional Carpet Cleaning
With plenty of advanced notice, you can schedule a professional carpet cleaning to help protect and maintain the carpet. With regular cleaning, you can reduce the frequency of full carpet replacement.

Offer Suggestions To Tenants

Place floormats outside the front and back doors to wipe your feet on before you enter the rental property.
Taking shoes off before going into a property can reduce the amount of dirt that is brought in.
If there are pets in the rental property, consider adding an extra fee or disclaimer to your lease agreement to address any damage caused by pets.
Tenants can rent a carpet cleaner and clean themselves once or twice a year to keep the carpets in good condition. There are also many affordable carpet cleaning appliances for the home that work well for pets or other stains that a regular vacuum can’t get.

Call Specialized Property Management Dallas
Our professional property management services will allow you to minimize expenses by taking advantage of our preferred vendor discounts and in-house systems. In addition to saving on maintenance costs, we handle rental property inspections, both inside and out to ensure tenant compliance and assess property conditions.