Pick a grout color that matches the granite, and tell your tile installer to lay the tiles as close together as possible.

It'll probably still have some taste/color.

I like the idea of giving a furniture allowance, but personally I would shy away from picking it out myself for the same reason that you go with neutral colors in a house.

. :)It struck me that owning and thus controlling three of three physically conjoined properties—not merely "close together" properties, but wall-sharing—might present some benefits (similar to owning all of one color in Monopoly, though I'm sure that's too simplistic of an example).

Selling a home you'll be selling expectations with the property.I'd blow out an 8x8 in a heart beat for a nicer master, and the master is so small I'm not sure I'd make it a walk-in closet, more like an open sitting/dressing area with a wall closet.

Painted every place with the same color paint, used the same brand faucets, etc. and tried to standardize as much as I could.

That is considered a contract issue, when you truly have a mortgage and try to dress it up in contract law it usually ends up being interpreted under real estate law.

The bedroom walls are all painted different colors and I wanted to paint the whole house in one neutral color with another neutral color for the trimming.

In court they used the fact that I had evicted a black man and rented to a white woman as de-facto proof of my discriminatory actions.I countered with the defense that while I had no problem with renting to any color of person and would never favor one color over another - nothing in the law says that I have to rent to the annoying or the disagreeable ******** of the world.

That actually woke me up and I immediately got dressed and drove to the property and sure enough, the backyard is saturated with water, and the entire back alley was flooded.Now Fort Lauderdale has a usage schedule that the per 1000 gallon price shot up exponentially as your usage increases.