Carpet or polished boards in a rental property?

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Carpet. We're living in a house we decorated to be a rental - we have this sort of brown and cream and beige flecked very short loop pile carpet here. It hides dirt and stains something fantastic and was cheap - the local carpet shop called it their "rental special". Doesn't look too bad either as it matches the rest of the decor.

I have polysomething carpet at my old house which was about the same price but looked really classy when it first went in, sort of a sisal look, really nice texture. It is a generic pale beige and shows every freakin mark, and when you move furniture you can really tell where the furniture was from the change of colour on the carpet. Really regretting that one now, wishing I could rewind and put in much darker, speckly carpet.