Flooring choices for rental rehab

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking at doing a rehab of a 4 unit building (3100 sqft) and I was wondering what people thought about flooring. I don't want to use the home depot bargain bin flooring, as I have not had good experience with that in the past. I was considering bamboo or hardwood, though I have seen some arguments against bamboo because of hardness and good hardwood can be pricey. As an option, I found some reasonable prices for granite tile. Price was a little more than the bamboo, but my thoughts are it will stand up much better than probably anything available. What are peoples thoughts on this? My only reservation about it would be the weight of all that granite.

I look forward to reading peoples thoughts on this.

[Jon Holdman]

I seriously doubt the flooring choice will have any effect at all on the rent. It may be easier to rent with a nice floor, and harder with a bad one, but otherwise it won't have any effect.

Laminate doesn't hold up well, IMHO. Commercial vinyl tile is a good choice for traffic areas. I like ceramic or porcelain time, though. Holds up well and easily cleaned. For other areas, hardwood is a long lasting choice.

Tile of any sort is going to have more installation labor. But if you're DIY'ing it, that's not a problem.