Don't use colored ones, not as strong. 

Natural appreciation obviously varies by location, my home city of Nashville rose at 9%.

Tenants crack them and then it's difficult to match the colors as they are changed so rapidly these days.

The natural beauty of granite, with its unique patterns and color variations, creates an elegant and upscale ambiance in kitchens and bathrooms.

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Hated driving at night, since the road and the humps 1 1/2 foot bumps were the same color.  

And in order to make those projected returns pencil-out they used very aggressive/nonconservative underwriting including very high leverage (above 65%), floating rate loans (higher projected return but increased the risk of catastrophic default if interest rates rose), financially engineered capital stacks (which increase the risk of a problem for the normal equity investors in ways that are similar to taking on more debt), very high sponsor split compsensation that financially incentivize them to push the risk-envolope etc.On the other hand, all the conservatively underwritten multi-family deals (low leverage, fixed rate loans, simple capital stacks, average sponsor split compensation) are almost universally fine.Another area having problems is in the riskiest strategies like ground-up construction (opportunistic)...because everything is more expensive than projected.

Get some samples (free in store) and get some color wheels for paint and see what you like best!

I have seen some realistic-looking laminate with stone coloring.

But somehow they come out smelling like roses!