I do my own repairs how can I fairly charge the tenants deposit?

[Cali Skier]

Our Tenants are about to move out.  

In all 3 kids bedrooms they mounted a TV and stuck sticky 3M LED light strips all along the perimeter seams of the walls and the corners.  In each room this adds up to about 75 feet of light tape for each room.  They pulled down the light tape in one room and it pulled off the paint, sheetrock paper, and some of the sheetrock. This is going to be a time consuming patch job.

I have new renters waiting to move in, I do not want to hire a contractor, they will not be fast enough, they will not do a good enough job either.

How can I charge the deposit for this?  Can I take lots of pictures and log my time and just charge a market rate?  I don't believe they should get this fix up service for free.
 

[Theresa Harris]

You can charge for materials, but usually not for your time.  You could try charging market rate for what a handyman would charge for your time, but you may run into problems.