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Rental Property Renovation

Rental property renovation is specified for durability and turnaround, not for the owner’s taste.

Placeholder image. Two remodelers in respirators assessing a stripped 1980s Florida living room with exposed terrazzo and a part-removed ceiling.

Specify for the next ten tenants

Porcelain tile or good LVP rather than carpet. Semi-gloss or satin paint in one colour throughout, so a touch-up needs one tin and no colour matching. Solid-core doors, standard hardware, and fixtures a plumber can source anywhere at short notice. Anything bespoke becomes a problem the first time it breaks.

Where the money returns

Kitchens and bathrooms let a unit at a higher rent. Flooring reduces turnover cost. Beyond that, spending tends not to come back in rent.

Where a rental property renovation returns the money

In two places only. A kitchen and a bathroom let the unit at a higher rent, and durable flooring cuts the cost of every turnover after that. Past those, a rental property renovation tends not to come back in rent, however good it looks. Owners get more from spending the same money across two units than from taking one to a standard the market does not price. Any contractor you use should be checkable at the Florida DBPR.

What rental property renovation should standardise

Everything that will ever be repaired. One paint colour throughout so a touch-up needs one tin and no colour matching, standard hardware, and fixtures a plumber can source anywhere at short notice. Anything bespoke becomes a problem the first time it breaks, on a property where the person who has to solve it is not the person who chose it.

Tenanted or vacant

Vacant is faster, cheaper and produces better work. Working around a sitting tenant means restricted hours, protection everywhere, and a schedule that will slip. If a turnover is coming, wait for it.

Not sure this is the right scope yet?

Most projects change shape once someone stands in the room. The walk-through is where that happens, and it costs nothing whether or not you go ahead.

See how a project runs

Start with a walk-through

Tell us the room, the city the home is in, and how to reach you. We will say plainly whether it is work we should take on.

Get a free estimate

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