Missing tiles/cheap rental fix?

[Trevor F.]

I have this cheap rental property where certain small pieces of tiles are missing. I dont have the original tiles and i dont want to spend the money replacing all the tiles when they are perfectly fine. 

I need this to pass a section 8 inspection so how can i fix this on the cheap? See photos.

[Ryan Normand]

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but it almost looks like there's no thinset on the tile-less areas. Was it already scraped off or was the original install just that bad? If they're popping off that easily then you might as well just pop them all and redo the whole area with LVP or laminate. It'll be more than a few hundred bucks (unless you DIY with super cheap materials) but still pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things.

You could also find tiles that are an approximate match. It'll look like a patch... not much you can do about that. Trying to pop tiles from other locations is risky. If they were installed correctly they will not come out in one piece and you'll have a bunch of thinset stuck to the back of the tiles as well.