@Jeff Lee I think that neutral colors are generic also (did I mention...I LOVE COLOR!!!)

The simplest way, not the best or cleanest, but you don't need any special skills...Put your list into MS Excel.Highlight the column with the data you don't want duplicated, use the Conditional Formatting option to identify duplicates by highlighting the cells with duplicate information.Turn on Sort & Filter.Select the drop down arrow on the column that contains the duplicate values and choose, Sort by Color.Choose the highlight color you used for highlighting duplicates.It will bring all the highlighted items to the top. 

She convinced my wife to get rid of or hide a lot of stuff, paint the kitchen and dining room the same color and spent $400 or so at Target on a few decorating touches.

You WILL get a ton of NO's, F U's, etc ;) but those are just one step closer to that first YES.Another strategy is to bulk order stamps and colorful envelopes from Ebay and start hand-addressing those leads on the list.

I set them up every 3 months to start and if the tenant passed with flying colors, meaning that the place was clean and there was no sign of ongoing damage (like dogs scratching at the doors) then I made the interval longer.  

If I put a carpet runner from the 1st floor all the way up to the 3rd floor, will this deter potential buyers since the colors may be *slightly* off?

I couldn't care less about granite or quartz tops or picking paint colors - focus on marketing.

I have read it three times now and my copy is full of a bunch of different annotations and mulit-colored highlighters.

To me white seems so clean and crisp, especially with a neutral colored wall.

By controlling our fears (color coded emergency alerts, the Patriot Act, ridiculous searches in airports, etc) and our beliefs (Iraq = 9/11, Iraq = WMD), the previous administration was able to get the American people (at least a significant number of them) to buy-into our invading and overthrowing a country on the grounds that they somehow had direct ties to terror against the United States.