Tenant moving out. HELP

[Joshua Ferguson]

Hello all,

While I don’t have a rental of my own yet I’d like to see if you all can help with my friends unit. He has a tenant that has stayed in the unit for 9 years and is moving out. Issue is he only had him sign an original 1 year lease and since then has just kinda went with the flowb due to the tenant paying on time and lack of calls from the tenant. Well fast forward to now and the tenant has told him he is moving. The fire place door needs replaced, new molding around a door, painted when not approved and they tried to add new flooring only to put wood floors in the living room and hallway with no transfer strips to the carpeted bedrooms. And that is the original carpet that was in when they moved in and is worn out. My question is can my friend legally do anything other than keep the security deposit?? I’m so new idk what he can do as there is not lease in place... thanks for any advice