Paint in between tenants? Yes or no?

[Steve Balinski]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious how many people paint in between each tenant? Surely depends on condition, but if it has some basic scrapes and marks here and there, do you repaint for each tenant?

im calculating the costs of I do this every time.  Leasing fee is 1100/month, paint is $1500 for the whole place.  This means for each tenant I'm immediately $2600 in the hole.  For those who shoot for $200-400 per door, how do you even break even just with these costs alone? That's 7 months of rental income just to pay off the move-in costs alone.