Rental property- porcelain tile that looks like wood or wood laminates?

Tile.

Lowe's carries a 6x24 tile in several colors that mimics wood grain. I've seen it in multi-family senior housing units and it looks good. They are installing it for the same reason you are considering.

I'd find a way to use sealed dark grout while you're at it.

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strange, what is your email? let me email you some before and after of some "vinyl plank" that look like wood... it's waterproof... simple to install... 25 yr warranty .... looks fantastic and feels great (better than tile in a bedroom would)... only $1 sq/ft too ... can't recommend it enough...I put it in all 3 of my bedrooms in my rental.

What Zilla said. Buy the Armstrong brand. Its not the cheap crap I see at Lowes when I go. You can do it yourself if you would like and it just lays right on top of the old floor or concrete with no extra prep.

I caution against vinyl in a pier + beam house. I had a friend who had a slow drip under the kitchen sink in the rental with vinyl floor. The water leaked through to the subfloor then spread out across the house under the vinyl. The tennant discovered it when water came up through the cable jack through the floor on the opposite side of the house. He had to replace the entire subfloor.

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