Vinyl planks or Carpet if you are going to sell?

[Joe S.]

Vinyl planks or Carpet if you are going to sell? So I have a house that I am doing a rehab on that is in a more desirable area. The ARV will be somewhere in the 700s conservatively. We typically put luxury vinyl floor in the houses we keep as rentals, but I got to thinking if we're going to sell it would be faster to simply put carpet in as many areas as possible.

If we could get a good enough loan on the place we could keep it as a long-term rental provided the rental income would cover the payments so if this would be the case we would regret putting carpet in the place as in Carpet has a lower shelf life.

What are your thoughts?

[Lexey Vezzoso]

Hey Joe!

I don't know the San Antonio market well but In my professional opinion if you're putting a home on the market, you are going to get your highest and best return putting the Luxury vinyl flooring in. We have contractors put vinyl in all the time for our rentals and it really shouldn't take them too much longer to get that job done instead of carpet. I hope this helps!

Good luck,

Lexey Neitzel