You can spend all your energy arguing with these tenants and trying to change their ingrained behaviors and patterns (good luck with that)....

Use pattern and texture - not colour - for variety: translation: use more than one type of tile in the bathroom differing only in size, style or texture.  

See the pattern, there is more to a thriving culture than productivity - though time erodes the thought of the need for anything else - which, without significant "Revival" will collapse any culture no matter the strength.Do you not see it?

If you don't want the real thing there's the 5mm click vinyl planks in stone pattern that I've been using from Lumber Liquidators.

I had that same pattern laid in my kitchen in 1972.Here's a couple of links re linoleum flooring.http://www.armstrong.com/flooring/products/linoleumhttp://www.armstrong.com/flooring/floor-buying-guide/linoleum.htmlThat's quite a job you've taken on.

@Norberto Villanueva (re: your latter comment)That was my feeling as well, since it does require a license here in California; I took another look at the website via the link provided, and this note was directly following what I pasted above:¨The above-referenced patterns are designed to assist the applicant in understanding the general types of equivalent experience which can be used to qualify for the broker examination.

I wanted to do something distinctly Brazilian so we imported 15 tons of Portuguese cobblestone to recreate the Copacabana boardwalk pattern on our driveways.

Study MF and business, learn it inside and out, and then partner with an experienced MF investor your first time out.I would have answered differently a couple of years ago, but now see that scalability and a hockey stick chart pattern come quicker with MF, if done correctly.

We still have not been able to determine a pattern that runs accross the board, but we have seen some small patterns in specific areas.We have also recently noticed that the banks are not taking the numbers that they used to take.

On credit score we look more for a pattern of responsibility - for example, do they pay WeEnergies like clockwork, but their credit got dinged by medical bills?