What you get when you let a tenant paint is roller-marks of the wall color on the ceiling, drips and runs, patchy covering, spilled paint, silly accent walls/ too many colors, uneven lines on edges and in corners, splatters, blistering, bubbling, peeling, the wrong sheen, visible brush marks and roller strokes, trim painted the same color as the walls, electrical outlets and switches and even light fixtures, vents, cold air returns, fart fans etc. all painted when they shouldn’t be, not enough coats where paint actually should be, and terrible color choices (almost always too dark or too weird).

That's just math  Can I brush it?

The most important lesson learned, GET UP, BRUSH YOURSELF OFF, RE-CONNECT and the REACT like YOU'VE JUST LEARNED an IMPORTANT LIFE'S LESSON! 

No reason to brush this off as simply the way it is.  

People need somewhere to put their make-up, brushes, razors, etc. 

You saved my A$$ mate by telling me "get out" and we where printing money at the time...Had no clue how bad it was until your call.Believe it or not, the Fed's contacted me not too long ago regarding the fiasco.Great to see those guys still going after it 6-7+ years later Well I take care of my favorites  :)  I was very active in Indy at the time and saw the cluster going on there and you just dont want to get painted with his brush..

If you want to brush up there are 2 good books in the BP book store by J Scott - one is about flipping the other about estimating rehab cost.

Approximately 52 city neighborhoods had residential property value growth ranging from 1 percent to 10 percent, according to the assessor's office.Two dozen neighborhoods in the city saw average residential property values grow by 20 percent to 40 percent.The fastest-rising residential property values in Detroit were in Midtown and Brush Park, which were the only Detroit neighborhoods to see values spike more than 40 percent, city data show.”

And there should never be a time when any kind of BULLYING is brushed off as "light." 

It really comes down to the real human condition of certain communities and instead of brushing it off, walking away, to actually be involved in them.