Other great advantage of Berber carpet is the variety of color, mixed color and designs, florals diamond, squared patterns and such.

Love the dark hardware in the kitchen with that color scheme.

You can use colorful sticky arrows with hand written numbers on them to correlate to your who must do what by what date notes.Buy a BIG stapler that can staple large contracts.Plug your Todo and the other guys milestones into you calendar or project timeline software.Expect the other guy to Donk contract things up and not be as organized as you are, and watch for that, and since you are ready with arrow flags you can easily and quickly via email or phone point out the contract language needed to help him stay on track (if needed).Good Luck!  

Screening tenants effectively is far more important than picking paint color. 

They really don't care what color the bathroom is painted or if the fridge is white or stainless. 

IE all tile bathrooms.. nice modern cabinets slab grantie .. 3 colors in the house all designer paint etc etc.  

what color would work best with cabinets? 

I am looking for suggestions on materials and colors etc.

- Everything costs more than you expect (as investors I think we see things through rose-colored glasses).

If you are looking to keep it you may want to think about going with Hardie board and just paint it the color needed to match the color scheme you want to go with...it shouldn't be too expensive.