From Etsy and Ebay I bought some old gears, a large socket, pressure gauge, and other old industrial stuff that I will place on walls and on floating shelves, in addition to the types of prints I mentioned above.

We'll hear more about this after tomrrow, when the book Game Change hits the shelves.

Entitlement and ownership are funny things her in Oakland, but I'll shelve that for another time. 

Light/mid gray paneling and white cabinets/shelves.

It have considered a concrete leveled but because I am not finishing the entire basement and some rooms have a lot of items (washer, dryer, shelves), I hope I don't have to pour this.

If you are operating buildings in rent controlled areas or other gov-mint-laden environments you can expect to get slums because the politicians don't understand basic economics.

However he said lumber, cement, sheetrock and most building materials fly off the shelves at amazing speed and it average out to 8+ minutes, and their goal is to reduce that number even more, and usually by phasing out stuff that sits and stocking more stuff that sells and if that's true eventually there would be zero variety.

(Use General Finishes "Java"). and maybe a Poly topcoat (also General Finishes brand)...kitchen cabinets, furniture, shelving, etc.I've probably saved you $20K :-) but you may have noticed that I did not tell you how much it will cost...that's because I don't know anything about the property you have in mind, so it's quite impossible to give you a price.

I know keeping high deductible is good idea but whether you can manage it when you have 10 properties with 2% deductible and hurricane hits 5 of them you have to shelve out 2% for all 5 properties.

You could also consider replacing some of the uppers with floating shelves to save some $$.