Nice little surprise

[Brian Ellis]

Starting renovating my first rental property. It is a duplex located in a mostly single family neighborhood. One unit was vacant and very outdated (as you can see), and the other one was recently renovated by the seller. When I bought the duplex, it was under joint ownership, and sold through a court appointed commissioner. Complicated situation.

Anyways, I received a quote to have carpet installed. $1400... thats Crazy to me. So I told myself id save a little bit of money and do vinyl myself. When I starting ripping up the carpet, this is what I found...

It was like finding gold. I had a friend in the wood flooring trade come help me buff them up with some new coats of poly.

 In the end ill spend about the same amount of money, since ill have to go with tile in the kitchen now. But The flooring throughout will be 10x nicer... Progress!

[Steve Vaughan]

Great find!  I always bring a small pliers and pull up a carpet corner in the closet when viewing a place.  Pull back far enough to get beyond the tack strip and keep the info to yourself if you find hardwood gold!