I just finished repainting the entire unit and new carpet goes in this week.

A place that looks reasonable with all the furniture and wall hangings might have to be repainted when you discover they painted all around the furniture (it has happened0.

I am okay with her changing the color, but I want to make sure that she cannot deduct the expense from the rent she owes as the apartment does not need to be repainted.

Nearly everything needs permits, but maybe your fixes are just minor cosmetic things, like repaint, carpet, etc. and don't require any permits, therefore, the questions on specifics.

Although this house was only 1,178 square feet, it really turned out with a nice layout on the inside and a great curb appeal on the outside.Here are some of the SKU's we used on the outside of the house:Material list (exterior):Base Paint - Garden Wall (Behr PP 730D-4)Trim Paint - Cornerstone (Behr PP 330E-2)Accent Paint - Intellectual Gray (Behr PP UL260-2)Front Door Paint - Roasted Pepper (Behr PP 180D-7)Door Handle - Kwikset Smartkey (745-825)Numbers - Hillman Group (844-043)Mailbox - Repainted existing

I ended up having to repaint a few highly stained walls and was very surprised by this.

We replaced the bedroom flooring, had to paint the entire place, had to re-sand and re-stain the cabinets after they decided to do that themselves, had to remove and repair the kitchen wall where they installed a backsplash (poorly), repaint the patio that they spray painted, fixed broken cabinet doors and drawers, replaced a stolen fixture, paid a cleaning team for 3 days of cleaning up the filth, and many other things. 

Are you going to repaint the white trim too? 

Are they supposed to repaint the exterior every 5 years?

A little over a year later we shared a place as a newly married couple with another military member (and his often over gf) because it let us put 18k in the bank and assist in me graduating from graduate school debt free.We than used a VA loan to buy a truly cosmetic fixer upper (no light fixtures, doors, 2 bathrooms need to be gutted, kitchen cabinets repainted, carpet replaced and entire house painted, lawn landscaped, etc) and spent a better part of a year fixing up.