Some other things a coat of paint won't do (vignettes from apartment hunting in the ghetto)

Remove mouse droppings from your freshly painted would-be apartment. Also won't remove dismissive landlord comment about 'well look where we are' about the downstairs neighbor's mouse sighting.

Remove ominous smokestacks from foreground of your center city view or make a feral cat colony count as evidence of a pet friendly neighborhood.

Shuffle up the ratio of pit bulls to any other kind of dog.