On the race subject, personally, I believe if an individual is skeptical of you because of the color of your skin than there is nothing you can do to build credibility with this person. 

dude...that's like asking what's the best car color!!  

We use the same paint color in every house we do, no exception.

@Clinton FilesAre you saying you have a loan structured like @Jeremy Pace described or do you have multiple house, each with a different loan that have cross-colorization? 

For those that don't, going with a dark stain color can help to hide.Require the tenants to cover primary traffic routes with runners and the other areas with rugs. 

On the Marketplace landing page, top right hand corner, you should have a bluish colored box to Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the forum.Under Manage Keywords, is where you'll set-up the city and/or zip code and you have the option to include/exclude the Marketplace from this.

Maybe color choices makes a difference too.

Contractor won't change his/her colors.  

It has some pretty bold colors that may not appeal to most potential tenants.

That's going to color my answer.