Homemade bar and shelves, toss some oriental carpets around, and dig that window down.

@Jean Wilner oriental - in Trenton city proper or the neighboring communities like ewing or hamilton?

Continue with investing and growing your net worth which will ultimately will provide a way better life for your family in the long term,  or increase your life style further trapping you in the rat race. 

Additionally I use Trello but to coordinate with my property manager ala Kanban style.

The purpose of this post is to ask advise on which direction may be more beneficial to me on transitioning my career to be real estate oriented and have a beneficial effect on my ability to be an investor/scale my passive income. 

Pool and solar could just come later but no point in not involving them from the beginning so they can look at your footprint and orientation and start designing something that will work for you. 

A partner and I have a 4-unit resort style short term rental property, purchased for 430k, owe 323K on a 5 yr balloon at 4% with 37 months remaining.

Spackle & touch-up paint can go a long way for a turnover if everything else is in great shape.Lastly, I would suggest that you possibly consider a different style of investing if this bothers you this much.

C/D neighborhoods always look better on paper, pro forma style, but A/B tend to be safer bets to actually perform. 

Was all baseboard radiant then I changed the bathrooms to euro style wall mount radiators due to changing space around and they worked great too.