Some colors go awesome with older places, others with more modern places.  

It's not rocket science but you need to know.

Our first house in Highland Park will make a great rental property with low operating expenses, but our current house in Saint Anthony Park is a higher-end, modernized home that would make an exceptional profit  if we sold it (as we did a complete renovation ourselves) but would be break-even or negative when renting.

(I grew up in North Alabama, and we had a science field trip there in middle school once).  

It's not rocket science.

Despite the small town feel, lots of research companies, an Amazon warehouse close by along with high paying science, tech, research jobs and even Costco is now building here.

This sounds like the modern day REI version of the Nigerian prince scheme.

The appeal of the house is it's had massive remodeling done in the past 4 years upstairs and is completely modern there, just had some poor craftmanship on a couple areas (tile work primarily).  

David Orr started Tax Modern and wrote that linked article--I linked his BP profile. 

Connect with those doing deals, they will show you how it gets done, its not rocket science.