Hiring a property manager under Option B lightens the burden but eliminates cash flow if you leverage the property with a DSCR loan.

Should I stain these doors and hardwood floors a dark expresso color, or lighten them, or just leave them alone?

You could also look into the STR / MTR strategy to help lighten the load as well but those come with their own challenges. 

So I tried to lighten up a little, and here I am in this situation now.  

We don’t collect for taxes or insurance premiums at closing, because we don’t allow those to be escrowed on the program, which can ‘lighten’ the up-front expense, compared to conventional mortgages. 

Same here, I doubt he did anything to such degree intentionally.If anything, it was an honest mistake like so many of us make.It's a shame tho that the Fed nowadays can throw the book at you and consider almost anything a RICO, tax fraud, wire fraud, etc... to lighten up the mood this morning I was just watching the Robert Plant concert in Toledo on U tube. 

This might lighten the weight of the tree toward your property;  so this might help or not. 

Ok, you want to lighten up and try to crack a joke.

If you're uncomfortable letting them all go, lighten the load and let one or two of them go instead.

Cut in the easement road, cleared overgrown timber to lighten up the previously dark property.