Taupe or a pink-toned beige is supposedly coming into style, but I think renters would still prefer greige, beige, tan or cream.

@Hammad Arif Sticking to neutral colors like beige, cream and gray would be best like @Marlen Weber mentioned.

That's what the research shows.My Insurance Agent must have read the same research, he sends each of us a postcard on our birthday that is good for a free ice cream cone at Baskin Robbins. :-)

I don't know if an ice-cream franchise is a good fit in Alaska or a Wool sweaters is a fit in Hawaii.5) How does franchise X fit with the rest of your tenants (assuming it's a retail strip of some sort) a pizza franchise in a strip mall that already has a pizza place will compete with each other and will eventually cause one of them to lose their business and you to lose the tenantJust some food for thought. 

You might be able to get better on the rate, but it's kind of a fence to play between this lender that says they'll do it and finding another source that might shave some cost for you.  

It probably just like another thing to do that is not necessarily  pleasant (not like go eat ice cream at a movie), so may be he is just postponing because of that.

@Brian Plajer, when it comes to commercial financing, lenders require that the sponsor(s) have a net worth equal to the loan amount, and liquidity of at least 10% of the loan amount. 

For instance, let's say your brick is redish, cream siding, I would probably go with a really deep brick red stain, darker than the brick on the house. 

but I don't really want to risk going through a tough escrow with a novice buyer trying to shave me down with contingencies and unreasonable demands related to inspections... especially in a softening buyer's market.

. - Caveat to all this is that, you still have to have a filtering process; [i.e. test them on various tasks required for the job, have instructional videos so once hired, they can just watch the video(s), have bonus structure to incentivize, etc]