Tenant damage to floors?

[Stephanie T.]

Hi there!

Our tenants just left their unit in San Francisco. Some of the engineered hardwood flooring has water damage (maybe 10 SF). We're unsure if we should charge them anything. In reality, we wouldn't replace the flooring right after them, and of course you'd have to replace the whole thing (it cost us $4200 5 years ago). They've been good tenants otherwise and very laidback, so we don't want to gauge them..but also think it's fair to charge them something. What have people done in that situation? Just let it go? Or if you do charge them, do you just charge the cost of buying the flooring for that spot (which may end up being something like $50...pre-labor?)

Separately, we have new tenants in and they've requested us to 1) change a bunch of bulbs that are not working, 2) ice maker in fridge is not working. The bulbs seem reasonable for us to fix, but is the ice maker an item we should deliver? It's always not worked when we lived there. is this something we need to fix or can we just tell them that it's as-is condition?