Sometimes you can get granite cheap if it is a common color or they can use left over pieces.

My favorite strategy is the live in rehab where you buy a too-big fixer upper near your workplace and rent out spare bedrooms to working professionals so you get paid to live in your own house.

Or is this type of condo/APT not a favorite investment regardless due to no appreciation, costly HOA, etc?

My favorite suburbs to watch are actually Brownsburg, Avon, and Whitestown, but those are usually for nice rentals as it's tough to find adequate distress in the suburbs right now to make a decent flip.

They had only one that was the right color so we bought it.

We will keep your home on our favorites list.  

Is there a page on BP.com that lists all the books mentioned (and frequency) by each podcast guests' Final Four questions "what's your favorite real estate/business book"?

Stop over thinking.Stop thinking worst case scenario.Stop inviting bad karma.You've got a cute property with a nice backyard (that needs a little color on the front).

They can even change the color of the sky outside although in Florida that’s not usually an issue.

Maybe consider a key symbol from the seal (county bird, or color or something) and implement that instead.