Another item of concern us that the color never covers in one coat and time is money, especially if I am painting the unit myself.

If you're planning on doing it yourself, it's a lot of work, but you should be able to find someone for about $1.00-$1.25/sf and not worry about a thing.Plus, once you sand and refinish, you could probably get away with a buff & coat the next time they need redone and you can get that done very cheap.

You didn't insult anyone I'm sure, if any are they need thicker skin!

Without having gone inside, I can tell that some sturdy laminate flooring, a new coat of paint, and slightly upgraded appliances (with perhaps a cabinet upgrade here and there) would probably bring the units up to standard.

I’m a full time pharmacist with a full sleeve tattoo and often run into this same mentality...and I often wear long sleeve white coats to hide it since I deal with such a large daily population.

Having read a summary, and THEN started the book, it seems like Hill inflated a bunch of obvious ideas and characteristics and coated them in a syrup of mystical thinking and excessive, sugary words.

I won't sugar coat it entirely, the housing stock is old and a lot of the houses need work (more often than not, a LOT of work). 

But he is real and straight shooter and not sugar coat.

No color coat, over the stucco.

Since it was taking multiple coats I was able to listen to podcast after podcast and was hooked!