Good or bad painting idea?

[Brandon Smith]

I've bought my first investment home/duplex to rent off. My thought is to paint the walls a good neutral color but not leave it plain white. I'm very new to this but my thought is, it is hard to rent off something if everything is just white...seems boring and I'm coming from sales and a lot has to do with perception. My leases will be year to year so what I was thinking is I will paint the walls, your first year you can not paint over what is existing. If you want to sign another lease come the next year to allow the tenants to paint if they would like since they may be a long term tenant and I want them to feel more at home. Any thoughts, suggestions, concerns about this idea?