My $.02 is that you don't want to paint with a broad brush. 

I contracted out 75% of the work and only did minor things myself such as Demolition, hauling off 15 trailer loads of limbs and brush from the yard, doorknob installs, etc.  

Make sure if you let them paint you approve the colors first before that brush hits the wall !

To wit: We had to teach a local that we didn't consider it OK to chew on twigs and spit them out while in a motor vehicle that you do not own (chewing on twigs from a particular plant being the local equivalent of brushing one's teeth).

Approximately 52 city neighborhoods had residential property value growth ranging from 1 percent to 10 percent, according to the assessor's office.Two dozen neighborhoods in the city saw average residential property values grow by 20 percent to 40 percent.The fastest-rising residential property values in Detroit were in Midtown and Brush Park, which were the only Detroit neighborhoods to see values spike more than 40 percent, city data show.”

Retirement home investments might be the better play.John,  as a REI you might want to brush up on your demographics.  

My painter simply brushed and vacuumed it and then put on at least two coats of paint.

In this country good business debt often gets painted with the same brush as bad consumer debt. 

It includes, among other things, a comprehensive map of the Cleveland area, grading each tract from A+ down to F, with a consistent, objective and transparent methodology using publicly available data rather than a broad-brush subjective approach.

Bill Gulley Bill not to one up you... but I started with Fuller brush door to door.