Best thing about Home Depot for me is that they accept Lowes coupons. They cannot scan them - different bar codes - so you can print off loads and use them time after time to save $$$. If you use them in Lowes they will scan them, the bar code is registered as having been used, and you may only use them that one time.

Just had $10 off a $50 spend Lowes coupon from Zillow . com link to Lowes Homemovers program - - that's 20% - I bought tile and kitchen cabinet flat packs $50 at a time, saved plenty. The Home Depot cashiers have never queried them but its probably better to go to a different cashier if you use more than a couple a day. If you use them in the selfservice checkout the helper there will take the coupon and adjust the total for you.

Just google for them if you want to print any off. There are 10% off any purchase available at the moment. It all helps.


Another good thing I go for in Home Depot (and Walmart) is the mis-tinted paint - just ask the paint mixing employees where they have it - Home Depot sell it for $5 a gallon instead of $30 or so. Often some nice light colours, and if you need more than one gallon to redecorate a room you can always mix 2 similar ones together, or colour with a can of white.
Perhaps more applicable to long term rentals than you folk with STR, you seem to go mostly for white as far as I see from STR homes I visit.