How much money to put into a rental?

lindsay&kyle

I'm not new to renting, however, I have never had the option to make changes to my rental. My landlord has told me I can do whatever I want in the two bedrooms of the house because he did not do them for me. If I choose to do this, he will not take off our rent (I can't really complain about that, the house is cheap as it is). My question is, how much should I put into the house? I'd LOVE to do the floors because they're still the bare wood that was used to build them, I just don't think I can justify spending that kind of money on something I'm not going to get a return on. On the other hand, I don't want to look around and see purple walls and nasty floors every day. Any suggestions?

atlcatlover

paint and get an area rug.  paint is inexpensive and can make big changes.

katharine25

atlcatlover:

paint and get an area rug.  paint is inexpensive and can make big changes.

Ditto. 

TarHeels&Rebels

Are you talking about the subfloor? Is it even legal for a rental to not have proper flooring? You might want to check your state's landlord-tenant laws.  If it's bare subfloor, first I wouldn't have considered that type of place, but if I did, I'd be requiring the landlord to put in proper flooring. 

If you're not talking about subflooring, ditto pp.  

lindsay&kyle

I think it is the subfloor. He rented to me to help me out, we're going through a rough time financially and those two rooms were the best in the house at first, the rest was completely unlivable. He did go in and do new floors, walls, appliances, heating and air, plumbing, wiring, ect to the rest of the house, but as far as doing anything besides wiring and heating and air to those two rooms, he did nothing. And as I said, I was fine with that because I had to live somewhere and my previous lease was up. I think I'll do the area rug though. I hadn't even thought of a rug, and I'll most definatly paint. Thanks to all!