Or if the brick color is too bold, paint the brick and the house a neutral color.

All an arc fault breaker does differently (from an install standpoint) than a normal breaker is run the neutral directly into it. a 2 second procedure.

Paint walls - light, neutral color. 

You can you passive losses to neutralize/eliminate passive income.

We then get a list of your assets and how much equity you have on each and draft a Promissory Note and Lien in compliance with each state regulation then we record these liens as amounts owed to the WY LLC to capitalize the entity There are special rules to capitalize such entities and we can make the structure tax neutral and fully legitimate by showing you how to make the payments to your own entity There is no transfer of assets, no anonymous corporations, no trust structured that can be unravelled in a lawsuit.

If you can just hold on for 8-10 years you can be cash neutral.

My thought is to paint the walls a good neutral color but not leave it plain white.

It does save money at closing of the loan for you, but it ends up being around net neutral at the end of the loan cycle. 

Doubling the standard deduction could be sold as a tax cut to the middle and lower class, and tax neutral to the upper class.

If you have high cash in cash returns you can sustain in good and bad markets with high vacancy you still can be cash flow neutral it slightly positive when rents go down you till make mortgage payments.Consider this year one you cash flow 3k house increases in value as you said year two cash flow - 3k and can't make mortgage payments and you lose 100k or you are at least forced to sell at a big loss.