Rental Property Flooring

[Corey Laboon]

Hi BP community! I am a first time rental property owner, living in one side of a duplex and renting the other. I’m planning to update my half while living there and moving out once the updates are made. The project I’m working on now is flooring. The property has avg. rent of $600-700/mo. And I’m hoping for some suggestions on what type of wood flooring to install. I don’t want to do hardwood as it is too expensive. Basically, I’m looking for suggestions on an affordable but still durable option of flooring for rental properties. Any and all suggestions are appreciated! Thanks BP!

[Caleb Heimsoth]

From my understanding I would go with luxury vinyl plank. I have this in at least one of my rentals and it lasts longer compared to other types of flooring. Obviously minimize carpet as much as possible.

Of my three rentals I think only one has carpet In the bedrooms and the others have zero carpet