Walmart.

In terms of the on-line window treatment retailers, you can only compare them at the moment, since many of them run specials all the time on different items.

When I was doing this, I made a list of about six of them and compared the prices of the item I wanted in the size I wanted.

I'm looking for the 2" faux wood ones.

Lowe's carries 2" faux wood. So does Menards if you have them in your area.

Not to butt in too much, but I don't invest a lot in blinds for rentals. Strictly vinyl (tenants usually end up putting their own fabric treatments up anyway). I'm always replacing them between tenants. Last spring alone I had to replace 11 total. 8 in one house due to candle soot (which was a clause in the lease they broke, that stuff is a nightmare and a half to clean up) and 3 in another house because one very bored dog chewed the bottoms of them. :/ Pet Dep covered one house, but SD for house with soot didn't come close to covering clean-up costs.

Please tell me what you mean when you say "strictly vinyl". What kind of blinds are those?

P.S. How did you word in your lease about candle soot?

Thanks!

Inexpensive vinyl mini blinds, 1" slats. They come in light filtering (least expensive) or room darkening (a couple $ more but they're a bit thicker, so I go with those). Here is a Lowe's example. And Target. (All basically the same no matter where purchased.) The most I've paid is $27 for a large picture window (one of the ones chewed by aforementioned dog), usually pay anywhere from $3 - $9 depending on window width. Other stores that carry them are Meijers, Kmart, Home Depot, W-mart. Have never had a tenant complain about them. (It's common around here to see homes for rent with nothing on the windows at all.)

Here are some in a rental kitchen (taken during upgrades):

Want to see some examples of what soot does?
House was sparkling clean on move in.
These pics were 9 months later.
Living room blind

On window glass

On bathroom tile at tub.
Tile + grout are white, not gray.

After 5 days straight of cleaning with everything imaginable, plus white grout dye.
What it's supposed to look like:

This is a paper towel holder they installed, and what
we found when we took it down:

See the bright colored seam in corner & where ceiling and wall meet?
That's the paint color. Everything else is soot.

This is one of the ones that upsets me the most. Newer vinyl windows. These were not cheesy nor cheap. The soot permanently stained the white vinyl frames on worst windows. So frames have a grayish cast now. Left window frame has soot, right window frame has been cleaned as best it can be.

They had dark colored curtains on windows and used low lighting, so on occasions I was in the house for minor repairs, above just wasn't visible.

Used to have zero restrictions till we encountered a very small patch of soot on a bath wall once. Didn't want that to get out of hand so started using lease clause that said 'candles labeled clean burning only'. I've seen clean burning leave soot, but not like above. So now I've banned candles of any kind, because I'm not willing to deal with that ever again. Warmers are OK, but absolutely nothing with a flame. (I'm not the only LL doing that either, for this very reason.)

If you want me to give you the exact wording I used in the lease clause, click my ID and send me an email.