Painting a rental single color

[David Lee Hall, III]

I have typically done 3 color schemes in my rentals (ceiling Lowe’s Maintenance Paint, walls S-W On the Rocks, trim S-W Pure White). I just purchased one that is a step down in level and rent rate and am looking at doing a single color scheme for the first time (S-W Alabaster) to save on labor. For folks that have gone the single color route, how do you do sheen selection? Do you do everything flat? Satin? Semi-gloss? Do you do flat on coat 1 and then add gloss for the second coat on walls and trim but not worry about cutting in perfectly? Obviously aside from minor material cost savings the biggest reason is to save labor on all of the cutting in, which I feel would likely be moot with 3 sheens.