Topic: Wondering if anyone charges for painting a unit after move out?

Wondering if anyone charges for painting a unit after move out? If so do you go off a proration based on how long they have lived there?

I have never charged for paint but my new location does.

What do you consider normal "wear and tear" as far as paint is concerned?

Only if they changed the color.

“Dirt” is never considered to be “normal wear and tear”. The unit should be returned clean or be charged to clean or cover up yur dirt no matter where it is in the unit. Just make sure you have good move out guidelines that are signed at move in

This is more like TV mount holes, small nail holes, color line on wall due to couch rubbing.

Courtney Bruner we charge for those things if the vendor charges us. Vendor only charges us if the holes are larger than a pencil eraser, or if they are excessive.

Consider nicotine staining

We are non smoking. Thankfully.

so are we... still find it

Amy Gardiner yeah we have had a few. It sucks.

Courtney Bruner we have to prime and paint any units that were smoked in. Vendor charges us extra, and we pass on the charge to the resident (less the charge we would have paid for a normal paint, because we would have paid that anyway)

My owner used to until we were sued twice. I warned him over and over. He no longer charges.

Really ?? He was sued?!

yes. Twice

We lost both times. You cannot charge for normal maint costs including paint. Now if they had painted it and we had to paint back thats diff. He was charging people for regular paints.

Thanks for the info, Amy Freeman. Really good to know.

I have on rare occasions, if they have lived there less than a year and there are holes, nicotine, crayon, sharpie, etc. Document with pictures. Otherwise we don't.

We painted after every move out- would charge the difference from a usual paint and whatever the painters charged for “extras”. (Patching, extra coats, etc).

We only charge for paint if it's a different color that our regular flat white AND if it requires more than 1 coat of paint. Its $40 per wall for us.

If the vendor charges me (i.e. tenant painted a unit and didn’t prime it/return it to original color, holes in the wall, removing decorations/stickers from wall), then, yes, I will pass along those extra charges to the tenant. But just for a normal turn paint, no, I wouldn’t charge.

We pay for one coat, anything over that is charged to the resident.

We would charge for- Excessive mounting holes (their wall was covered in picture hangers), holes larger that a quarter, different color, pet damage, smoke damage, anything that takes more than 1 coat of paint to cover.

Dirty walls or scuff marks is normal wear and tear to us...we are painting the apartment anyways. To us, if you nickle and dime move-out charges it reduces the chance the former resident and their 20+ close friends, 200+ social media friends will rent from you in the future. No sense in loosing future leases for a scuff mark.