To make this work, you're going to have to pound the pavement and find your own deals.

Have some vacants I am reconditioning to rent out.Looked at carpet.Found a happy medium at .80 sq ft.and 8 pound plush scotch guard pad at .85 sq ft.This is at Home Depot with a very low installation fee of around 35 bucks.Conversely found 12 by 12 ceramic tile for .56 sq ft.My thought process is too install the tile all the way through on the main floor and use carpet just on the stairs and the 2 bedrooms upstairs.Has vinyl down stairs now but actually cost more than tile and get ripped and messed up.Tile would seem to take more abuse and last longer.I can get cheap berber type carpet for .48 sq ft and cheap 6 pound pad for about.49 sq ft. but I am trying to make it look nicer and not cheap.This is why I wanted to spend a little more on a nicer pound foam pad versus rubber composite.I asked about the Home Depot bid room and the sale person said he could submit but the bids are getting rejected as the carpet is already priced so low.Says HD is getting away from the contractor bidding wars to try and get the price down etc.I checked with prices versus Dalton Ga (carpet capital of the world and the prices were just as good or better.HD is measuring the units for free for me tomorrow.On the tile how much is the grout and the bonding agent for the tiles to the floor??

Also applicable for keeping unwanted guests away!

Very funny, MikeOH -- you should start a new topic on what tenants are really saying when their lips move:"I have a small dog under 15 pounds."

In the Senate there are only a couple of left-leaning Republicans that support it but they made sure to get their pound of flesh first.

An ounce of prevention=A pound of cure.

He is a criminal.He basically went short on the British Pond, then held a press conference and said so Currency speculation On Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992), Soros became immediately famous when he sold short more than $10 billion worth of pounds, profiting from the Bank of England's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency.

About 55 pounds per $1000.

Something I can pound a nail into.To everyone's great success!

Takes me less than 10 seconds and I am not swinging a 4 pound sledge hammer in the middle of the night.