Originally we planned to stain but it would have looked bad so we painted it the same color as the cabinets.

The size of the unit makes me lean towards lighter colors. 

Also updated the look inside with LVT flooring and paint, added granite counters, painted cabinetry and trim, replaced non-functioning AC, landscaped backyard full of weeds into desert style landscape, painted exterior brick to updated colors.

Tell them all to color outside the lines and take a hacksaw to the break pedal.Franklin

Things like not liking the color of the tile or paint isn't required repairs.... take those things in stride, listen, but not deal killers.  

If i have to write over them to darken the colors again then oh well.

What colors is it?

I started buying SFR properties lately (mostly foreclosed properties) in Wilkes-Barre PA, a blue color area.

I hope it’s colorful.

I could never bring myself to purchase a completely finished home, then proceed to pay someone to rip out brand new flooring, cabinets, moulding, and replace them with something that's a different style or color, but of no higher quality than what the flipper had put in two months ago.I could buy some land and get a home custom built, but that's easily $50-100k in added costs, from expenses such as a site plan from a civil engineer, utility hookup fees, impact fees, grading, excavation, pouring a foundation, and so on.So the remaining option is to find a home needing TLC (but which is generally structurally sound) where much of the interior is going to be ripped out anyway, hire a contractor, and do the work.