Have been using Sincere Home Decor for cabinets.

Landlord does the decorating - which will be bright and neutral. 

If the cost is truly going to be thousands then my first instinct is to uniform the tenants it is no longer for heating use, solely decorative.

Quite frankly, I'm not a fan because because it gives the appearance of everything looking grungy and dark as some here have pointed out, especially if the decor is too homogeneous; that could be why the ceilings appear gray? 

I definitely put bulletproof porcelain tile ($.69 from Floor and Decor) everywhere that made sense.

He then takes the profits and builds another spec house.His wife is on board and does all the interior decorating and landscape design.

I'm an appraiser and have seen soooo many fails when it comes to colors, even from professional decorators - it is not easy to hit out of the park and really easy to strike out.

With this (awful) approach of pretty much just listing a house on these sites....and hoping for the best, my prediction is you would get pretty much slaughtered in the reviews, which would lead to less bookings, and then eventually reaching the conclusion that STRs don't work.To do it with a better degree of success you would want to purchase the property, put in all the finishing touches that guests want to see such as books about the area, maps, buy new furniture and decor if needed, create a welcome book with recommendations on restaurants and attractions, list it on multiple sites, build your own website/brand, promote it on social media platforms, have professional pictures taken, have your listing completely filled out, be incredibly responsive to every question and message you receive, build a really good guidebook to the point where you are almost an ambassador/tour guide for the area, interview and contract with professional cleaners and have backup cleaners in place, have a relationship with a professional handyperson so they know who you are when you call the first time requesting their service, have several electrical and plumbing contractors identified to call when problems come up, set expectations for your cleaners up front and provide feedback immediately to them when guests have a complaint, and handle all complaints with your guests the way you would want it handled if you were the guest...put the guest first before any profit/money. 

When I drive by the houses where I sent the letters, there are no notices on the doors, and most of them look like they are perfectly normal, (shoveled sidewalks, nice landscaping, Xmas decorations installed during the season, etc.)

hi everyone, i to am very new to real estate but am trying to educate myself as well.i am 25 and have a small business striping roads and doing decorative concrete.