- Loan amount: $67,100 - Monthly payment: $631.25 - Renovations in progress: Refinishing hardwood floors, updating kitchen and bathroom

It scratches easily and can't be refinished.

I usually do this job myself, but with the first child due any day now and me being in full-time-W2-high-school-teacher mode until June I figured I'd hire this one out.A good friend of mine referred me to him and his ...

Ask him out of the box questions like "how much would it cost to refinish 1,000 sf of hardwood flooing?"

I tore out and replaced kitchen, new SS appliances, ceiling fans, refinishing original hardwood floors, new paint, new roof, etc.  

New bathroom, Refinish the hardwood floors.

@Kevin Yeats the unit could use some freshening up (paint, hardwood refinish, etc.), but this isn't the guy for the job. 

Shoot it is expensive to have someone come in and refinish floors.  

You should also be aware of what plasticizers were uses to make the products as that has become an issue (CNN had a big article about Home Depot's removing a certain one by the end of 2015).Finally yes there are other options but they all have their pros and cons; Ceramic has weight issues but is very durable, Wood in a rental (GOD FORBID, unless you're good at refinishing the stuff every time a tenant moves out, hiring it done is more money out of your pocket) is not something I'd recommend unless this is a high dollar real unit.

-Nothing is ever clean thanks to dust from building materials-You constantly have to move furniture from room to room, damaging walls in the process (walls that might already be finished and now have to be re-finished)-Because you have to keep moving things from place to place, it takes much longer to finish tasks (compared to an empty fix and flip, I estimate about 30% longer to finish tasks)-You can never find anything because half of your life is in boxes-Various things like painting and putting in carpet will take even longer because you want to be able to do those tasks at least 1 floor at a time (if not the entire house at once) to save time.