I polish and repaint, pay attention to curb appeal and all those things that bring in great tenants. 

I am assuming I just need to repaint because it would be a nightmare, if not impossible, to get the paint off the brick house?

I did foundations on both, two kitchens, repainted both of them, repointed the brick one before I repainted, and a paid for the initial pest control for both properties.

I already know that your tax pro will say "no" to depreciating light bulbs and repainting in between tenants (& they will LOL at the notion of depreciating a $2.50 light bulb), but start the "fight" there so that when you're done "meeting in the middle" maybe the new carpets and new water heater get "depreciated" instead of being a "repair." 

The current tenant claims they were there when he moved in...... in going through my records, my move in agent and the tenants placing agent have no record of a move in condition sheet filled out by the tenant.Lease states that if the tenant does not submit one, the house is considered damage free.House bought in 5/2014..all new paint....one tenant previous for 12 months...this tenant for the remaining time until now.My agent did the walk through post last move out and did not note any issues where she felt I needed to repaint except one room, which I did.Since its so many walls in different rooms, the estimate is $1000 to repaint these areas.So the recent tenant is claiming they were there already and its normal wear and tear and is my responsibility to fix.My position is that there is no documentation of his claim and if he had just left them alone I could have fixed the issues way cheaper since it would have been done correctly from the start....it would have been way better to just leave a bunch of nail holes in the walls than have blotchy paint everywhereOpinions?

- Walls need repainted.

Is the only solution to scrape and repaint? 

Eviction is expensive, and if she's doing a bad job with the paint, maybe her security deposit will cover most of the cost of repainting the house if you let her complete the lease?

If I painted the unit before they moved in, and one wall has stains and smudges all over it, they get charged to have it cleaned/repainted. 

I once re-rented a SFR practically in a day after we cleaned and repainted the place, and was told by people coming by that no one bothers with it anymore, at least in my neck of the woods.