[flipper35]

I like carpet. then again, I was a commercial flooring guy in a previous life.

Our current house had tile in the kitchen, dining, laundry. Had an issue with a washer that flooded the house and the cleaning crew broke some tile. We used the insurance money to replace it with laminate. I hate tile. It is hard, cold and noisy. We have sheet vinyl in the bathrooms and the entry door in the basement from the garage, though I keep some carpet tile on that to wipe your feet on. The rest of the basement is Berber. The upstairs is all plush carpet other than the front door entry which has tile and the kitchen/dining/laundry that is laminate. My wife has laminate in her office.

Mom and dad have carpet tile in the basement and we played ping pong on that for decades and it does not wear. Mom gets tired of the color before it shows wear.

For a rental I don't know that I would do carpet other than something from Menards where you can replace it cheap and there are no pets allowed. You don't get pet pee out of carpet or the pad or the subfloor.