Not intending to be at all racist here, but I was at a flooring place today and I was looking at options and the guy said to me he had just sold some of the timber-look laminate I liked to a landlord who owned a property at Sunnybank. Apparently her Property Manager's told her that if she didn't put in wood floors and airconditioning then Asian tenants wouldn't even consider renting her property, and given the location she would be limiting her applicant pool significantly (apparently a high concentration of Asians in that area??).
Has anyone ever come across this sort of thing, surely its not an 'Asian-specific' preference? I was thinking of timber look laminate or vinyl plank flooring for my IP - thought that tenants would prefer it over carpets in the living areas to keep clean etc, but still carpet in bedrooms. The vinyl plank is a bit more durable though so I was leaning towards it, would it make much of a difference do you think between that and laminate for those that want 'wood' floors?
Has anyone ever come across this sort of thing, surely its not an 'Asian-specific' preference? I was thinking of timber look laminate or vinyl plank flooring for my IP - thought that tenants would prefer it over carpets in the living areas to keep clean etc, but still carpet in bedrooms. The vinyl plank is a bit more durable though so I was leaning towards it, would it make much of a difference do you think between that and laminate for those that want 'wood' floors?