Legal charge for carpet replacement

By Jenna

We rented a 1 bedroom apartment (complete with den) in Texas for 2 years.  Upon move in, the carpet was already 2 years old.  It sustained pet damages during our 2 year rental.  The manager told us that they replace the carpet every 5 years.

Quesion 1: Can we be legally charged to replace all carpet in every room (i.e. living, dining, bed, office, and closets) if the only damage the carpet sustained was in the living and dining rooms?

Question 2: It would appear that the carpet value depreciates to $0 on the completion of year 5 of its lifespan (I base this on the fact that they replace it every 5 years).  Doesn’t this mean we should only pay 20% of the carpet replacement’s cost?  They are trying to charge us 40%.

I just want to make sure we aren’t taken advantage of as they innitially charged us 60% and then told us it was a mistake on their behalf.

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