Super high "damage" charge on tenant move-out

[Alan Bosca]

Hi -

Tenant moved out of my condo & put a nick in a wall that looked fairly small to me - photo attached. The HOA took a while to get me a quote and then sent me a $3400 bill to prep & paint the whole wall.

I am planning to take it out of the tenant's security deposit, but does anyone have advice re: the seemingly very high charge. IE can I be sued for passing along the cost, is it my obligation to force the HOA to get second opinions or request a simple patch? Or do I just deduct from sec deposit?

Thanks for any input.

For some reason these posted sideways, but here are photos.