Tenants makes lots of changes to property.

[Dan Weissman]

I’ve had a great elderly couple renting my home in Henderson NV for 6 years. They are now moving out and given proper notice. However, they have personally made several modifications/upgrades (in their eyes I’m sure) that are above and beyond what is permitted in my Standard NV Lease. They’ve repainted all the blonde wood kitchen cabinets with Cherry wood stain (not well done), they’ve opened a bathroom wall party and inset shelving 3ft by 8 ft, they erected a large canopy in the back yard and built an attached tool shed (both not permitted) and so many other similar things.

They had never asked permission of me to perform any of these changes and I am wondering how I go about collecting on repairs that will far exceed their original security deposit. Any suggestions. 

[Account Closed]

@Dan Weissman

I suspect your hopes of amity and equity are misplaced, and your relationship with these people is about to be ruined. Cecilia Giménez, the 90-some year old lady who took it upon herself to "restore" a 19th-century fresco in a Spanish church and thereby gave the world "Potato Jesus," still insists she did a good thing.