The investment is greater- $2 or so for a curtain rod and I find room darkening curtain panels on sale for $15/ pair or less- however I think the benefits out weigh the added cost in my opinion. 

Your experience is like going into one store to buy a great pair of yeans and they dont have your size.

“We need to rally around increasing supply.”Lofgren said his group fears the local measure will pair with a proposed statewide ballot initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which limits rent control to properties built before 1995.

The second deal is a pair (2) of Triplexes with a ton of new updates.

I am an out-of-state owner of a single-family house who needs a good pair of eyes and a set of skilled hands.

Other houses that I have that are strongly cash flowing I can use to supplement my income and help with operations costs when starting into the MF property.I have also invested in a pair of fourplexes, which is not quite the multi-family model (which is 5+ units) but a good starting point with a larger supply of units so a vacancy does not hurt quite as much.

Google "paint colors that go with wood trim". you will be surprised many colors look good with wood trim. if the plan is to eventually paint trim white, then I would go with the final color you will pair with white trim. why paint twice you know.

But you can get clever by doing simple things like a pair of socks.

I have multiple mortgages, banking accounts, credit cards, brokerage accounts, crypto currency accounts, crowd funding accounts, employee 401k, self directed ira, employee stock plan administrator, shares in a small-town bank, I feel like I could go forever.

All pumped by money that people don't have, created out of thin air by the fiat currency system..