I guess I was one of the lucky ones, I had one small area of flooring that was soft so I peeled the rubber back and found rotten wood. Fortunately that was the only area with significant rust and it was only heavily pitted. But , and this is a big but, you have no way to tell without doing the labor of pulling up the floor covering. I was able to re-use all the plywood except for about two square feet.
Fortunately my wife and I are shorter than average so I was able to put a layer of foam under the plywood and it being precut to size was a big saving in time. Kind of made up for the extra time it took to remove it intact.
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