Was it staging furniture / items?

I'm not a fan of sheet vinyl as it can rip and it's not that feasible to repair, but would consider it for a bathroom where you don't have heavy furniture going in and out.

Usually costs more and does not give a descent return but what I have done for some of my tenants is offer them low interest personal loans for house hold items (TVs furniture etc.)

I own a small design/build furniture company located in Seattle, and I have been thinking about using my furniture, and my design sense, to start staging homes.  

I am not sure if you are looking for other methods of funding, of if you are looking for alternate streams of passive income (you could try purchasing furniture used for future staging and rent them out when you're not using them for an example), but if you have the time to work on more than what you're already doing and are simply wanting ideas to come up with more funding, I would suggest working together with someone else (an active REI that is) who has the capital and splitting the profit until you make enough that way so you don't have to worry about it.

If you have $1000's of dollars of computers, jewelry, and furniture the owner's policy will not cover that.

Screwing around with real estate contracts is serious, an owner may act in a reasonable manner to prepare for a sale, they may move furniture to storage, they may rely on your contract to enter into another purchase, spend and deposit money, they may lease a place.

I just layed off two people and am planning on spending $200,000 on new furniture, a $2,000 waste basket (it is very nice looking), custom desk, etc. etc.

Make sure your handyman tightens every piece of furniture in that place every couple months or you'll have dozens of bolts working themselves loose.

I have solid furniture, a couple fake plants in the apartment, good internet, and smart TVs.