Got a Flooring Quote and...

[Sean Autry]

... it was $3,500 per unit @ roughly 500 sq ft per unit (waterproof laminate). I've priced just the materials at Home Depot for the Allure vinyl water resistant flooring and it was closer to $1.1k/unit (just materials)... What are other landlords spending on flooring? Is $3,500/unit for waterproof laminate high? Am I just being cheap or undervaluing the labor? This is my first rental and first time doing floors, so I'm curious what others are spending.

[Dustin Beam]

I'm slowly converting my apartments to vinyl plank as needed. For material costs, I haven't found better than lumber liquidators (someone let me know of somethign better if you have it :) ). 

There was a color that was cheap that went well with the wood in my apartment, but they've since discontinued. It was real cheap. The stuff I'm gettign now is about $2/sqft. If you do go to them, let them know that you have apartments and you want a commercial account, you'll get it even cheaper. 

As far as labor, I have a guy that tears out the carpet and hauls it off, and installs this flooring for right around $1/sqft. So all in all, it costs me about $3/sqft depending on what flooring I go with.