Invisible FurnitureCarrying on from the above; the less your furniture invades on your space, the more room you’ll have and will appear you have.

If possible leave a 36" opening between the sink wall cabinets and the island.Use Musclebound and do a mosaic glass/stone tile over the existing tile.The cabinet paint looks pretty good in the pics it's sometimes hard to tell, if possible just replace hinges with invisible soft closers.How big is that cabinet base to left of sink (18")?

If it is helping to create invisible assets then good advice might be helpful.   

It would look way more modern with invisible hinges on the cabinets.

If the utility was a flat fee, then I would just build the cost into the rent and it would then be invisible to the tenant.

Invisible fences are one. 

One was at Invisible Fence.

Energy is Invisible, and the Great Inversion are two books that speak to this problem.

Currently the homes were tiny so invisioned a tiny home community which would be the first in the area or tear down and rebuild as many nice affordable 3/2s and 2/2s as will nicely fit on the street along with a 6 plex.

I really don't like the investment horizon right now, personally; I do a lot of reading about the market (US and global) and various corporations, and I guess I just got tired of being an invisible cheerleader who had no real say in what was happening with his money.