I was absolutely blown away at the thousands upon thousands of colour choices that one has, but was relieved when I finally managed to match my tile colour with a wall and cabnet paint.I am pretty excited to see how this beautiful kitchen island will fit into the overall design, and am really chuffed as to how this has come out.

@Tomer Ravid the previous landlord was charging $525/month in an area where market rent 5 years ago was $850/mnth for a similar apartment (2 bed 1 bath).What I did was put in over 100 hours of landscaping work, upgraded the appliances, upgraded the kitchens and baths (all as cheaply as possible, for example, I painted pink tile white, used thermoplastic panels and liquid nailed them over the old tile backsplash, laid down new vinyl floors over the old nasty vinyl, etc) and was able to take very nice pictures and market the property very well.I also allow dogs, so that is a huge competitive advantage in the area.

@Garrett Beecher I am redoing the tile in the bathroom and kitchen, new sinks, repainting, possibly new carpet, and patching up some walls.

I look for the patterns between topics and where those topics meet is where the real knowledge is learned. 

All of them have rather old, outdated kitchens - chipped, broken linoleum tile, 70's style cabinets with minimal storage space, and older appliances.

We pay him 12% markup and I pick out and buy most of the items you can see -- tile, cabinets, vanities, sinks, countertops, appliances, lightening, etc.  

The property is in a B area, with C schools, its 3 bed 1.5 bath, 1200 sqft, 2 story, garage, no basement, it is in need of some moderate rehab (exterior wood repair, garage door, flooring, paint, bathroom tile, roof sooner than later, etc)If I were to buy at 76k that drops my ROI by about 4% a year.  

Congratulations on being more capable of eloquently expressing an intricate thought pattern than 99% if the folks here!

It took a lot of what I call “Brain Training.”I set about on a very systematic process ‘retrain my brain‘ – to start to associate new thought patterns that replaced old beliefs that no longer served me.

An example would be decking under shingles, or subfloor under bathroom tile.