Destroyed Couch!

[Jennifer Sleider]

I have a friend who was renting out a SFH and he left a large couch in the basement. He left it from when he used to live there. He didn't include any information about it in the lease. A family that lived there had a little kid who colored on it with marker and left some marker spots on it. My friend wants to charge him half the price of the couch originally, but he is now selling the house and leaving the couch anyways. Can he charge for that damage?