You end up spending more time painting shutters the actual approved shade of brown than making money.Good Luck!

I'm looking at different properties in the St Louis area I keep finding deals in areas that on the trulia crime map is in the level 2/3 of the shading. 

I've done this and shades of gray. 

I can trim them back but I also want the shade since temperatures  can go up to the 100s easy especially during summertime.

I'm an avid reader and actually take pleasure in this sort of research, but what frightens me -and this is no shade to all the kindness of info offered me by some of the industry professionals here-, .... is exactly that: There is such a largess of professional brokers, flippers, money managers, agents and companies vying for my attention that at this point, my instincts tell me to back into my tortoise shell, read a few books on this, and THEN come back into this information market.

Not sure why youd want to throw shade at me...did I win a listing over you or something?

Its a basement apartment in a 1958 built triplex. natural light is limited. walls are light gray and trim is white. floor is concrete and a darker grey.

If it’s shades valley I would be cautious.

Sure, I could paint it a nice shade of beige or gray, but then I’d be repainting every single time a tenant moves out.Same goes for kitchen cabinets,  once they’re painted they’ll always have to be repainted.

And if they aren’t scamming then they are level 13 psychos that will ask you to bend over backwards for them and then give you a bad review because they don’t like the shade of paint color in the guest bathroom.