Should a Rental look like a Hotel? [Photo Included!]

[Brandon Turner]

So, I'm coming to the end of a road trip throughout California, and I've stayed in a number of hotels. I noticed that every hotel has 2 similarities -

-Textured Wallpaper
-Really short carpet

I'm wondering if anyone does this in their rentals? There must be an economical reason every hotel in America does this. I'm guessing both hold up much better, with all the traffic. So, should be be doing this in our rentals? Thoughts?

[Xing Zhu]

Originally posted by Dyna J.:

Well whats the reason for most carpeting being destroyed in rental units? With hotel rooms people are less likely to have food, kids, obviously no pets and the rooms will be cleaned fairly often based on turnover. Plus how long will people actually be in the hotel room? Most often just to sleep I'm guessing. It would be nice to know how often they actually replace the carpenting.

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I own a number of hotel condo units. It looks like they may change carpets inside about every 6 years. It is the decision of the management, not of the owner. The owners get billed either from certain reserve funds or deducted from rental income. Common area carpet change is different, it may be charged through a special
assessment of POA also about every 6 years.

Hard carpeting is much easier for service carts to roll on.