Before doing that sorting, print out all your credit card statements and bank statements, take colored highlighters, designate green color for business, pink for personal and yellow for mixed and color away those statements.

I'm not looking at this situation with rose colored glasses or anything, however, we have to take this one step at a time. 

We've been searching for almost a year for a house hack around Baltimore with decent public schools, so when I saw this particular home I put on my rose colored glasses.

The color of the pain on the walls shouldn't matter (paint is cheap). how nice the kitchen is shouldn't matter.

@Mike Marino Here are some other things to consider as you go through the refi process and survive with flying colors!

Hard surface flooring, modern colors & feel, good materials.

Hard surface flooring, modern colors & feel, good materials.

Use colors that catch the eyes, look up marketing colors and how people react to them.

absolutely but don't feel bad, even with the older ones there will ALWAYS be a few undetectable $$$ surprises.We had a horrible chipped, colored many times, bathtub & leak prone tiled surround in a circa 1978 SFR & we didn't have the time to rehab it.

The Cook County Human Rights Ordinance: This ordinance prohibits people in Cook County (including employers, landlords, property managers, real estate agents, store and restaurant owners, bankers, lenders and Cook County government officials and employees) from unlawfully discriminating against or harassing other people on the basis of that person's race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, source of income (including use of a housing choice voucher), housing status, or gender identity.