Tenant Wants New Carpets (4yrs)

[David Schilling]

My friend lives in a Palo Alto apartment. She’s been there 4 years. Good tenant. The existing carpet is that cheap commercial crap that I would even put in an office. It’s only a 15’ by 15’ patch of carpet. Some of the other units have hard wood. What would be a tactful way to ask for new carpet? Should she just ask the property manager, or should she try to contact the owner? The owner is hands-off but the tenant has met the owner once. Thank you all for your input, and generous contributions to the BP community ~David