Paint the walls before the carpet is installed.Use appropriate vendors - Use handymen for most tasks to control costs and only bring in licensed contractors when necessary.Contracts - Document all details (start date, duration, paint brand and colors, materials, permits, etc.) in writing.

What is the wall color?

Hardwood that has some spots and won't be the exact same color as the living room or carpet?  

@Raymond Hill It will cost a lot more to put up the vinyl siding but then it should hold color and hold up to weather well.

Color me slightly more surprised than I had anticipated

That's good that you used a different font color good way to get attention to the card.

We filled in holes from hanging pictures and asked for the paint colors to fix completely but landlord didn’t know what colors were used.

It sounds like there will be alot of common area space in that building.I'd check utilties closely if it's anything like the schools I attended, huge hallways, kitchen and dinning areas, library, school offices, dressing areas to the gym, etc.

Really happy with how it turned out - it looks natural and there aren't huge color variations like a lot of current options. 

The way I set the software up is so to analyze a property you only need to enter information in the tan colored fields.