Diana... he said the reason for not allowing laminate in the bedrooms is there is a noise issue. All of the bedrooms are stacked on top of each other, and since I'm on the third floor, the second floor bedrooms are right underneath mine, and the first floor's bedrooms are under theirs. He said if you wake up in the middle of the night and get up, the noise on the laminate might be too loud for the people sleeping on the next floor beneath.
My parents have both laminate and carpet upstairs, and honestly I can't tell a difference between them when I'm downstairs! A footstep is a footstep... unless you're wearing shoes of course. But I usually don't wear shoes in the middle of the night
Anyways, another guy from the condo board called Scott after I had started this thread. Scott said that yes, he had talked to the manager, and knew we couldn't put laminate in the bedrooms. The condo board guy asked why and Scott explained the noise issue. Then the guy was like "If I were you, I'd go ahead and do it anyway. A lot of other people have done it and are still doing it. As long as you're not going to make a lot of noise at night it shouldn't be a problem. If you think it is getting loud, you can just put down a rug!" and of course he added "But you didn't hear it from me!" lol. We don't have to have anything checked or inspected after we do renovations so I think we're just going to go ahead and do it all anyway.
The money issue really makes me angry though. Obviously the manager knows we're upset about it now and hopefully will talk to the accounting department about it. He personally went through the statements and called back to say it's not right and told us where we were standing financially ($40 credit). So hopefully this month we'll have that much off the normal amount, and next month will be back to normal. It has just been such a headache so far... I really hope everything works out soon.