:)The definition of "normal wear and tear" gets pushed toward the tenants pretty vigorously from what I have heard and most people I know (myself included) only take out money form the deposit for real damage and not say to repaint unless they serious mess something up or to clean carpets again unless they do some ridiculous.

If are concerned that you will have to re-paint the whole unit and deep clean at higher cost, then maybe you can make a point of mentioning that this is not allowed based on the lease. 

Repaint it a striking, tasteful color, or sand it down and stain it.

David that is such a broad question.Shopping centers vary by age.Generally everything recycles after so many years.For instance if a shopping center is 40 or 50 years old it is past it's life cycle.Generally at that point you tear it down and build new.If a shopping center is say 20 years old many will just reface the outside to make it look new and repaint and re-stripe the parking lots.This is all predicated on if the shopping center still has a viable location or has growth shifted and now the center is int he old part of town.If it's in the old part of town refacing might not make sense and instead you buy at a lower basis to rent to Big Lots,outlet stores,etc. for less money.Still a tenant that will rent from you but at a lower cost because the area has shifted.With shopping centers it's all about the corner and access from 2 points,red lights,traffic volume and flow,etc.Anchored shopping center versus unanchored,tenant mix with credit rated tenant and frachise concepts versus mom and pop operations.Just like with houses you can run into big repairs with older shopping centers.Don't pay attention to current leases as much going in as what is market rent now and any leases fixing to reset.Also need to know level of shopping center saturation in a 2 mile radius depending and could be tighter or bigger in size depending on rural,subrurban,or urban core,and population count and demographic.Hope it helps.

But real world there are turnover expenses that take time like repainting/ cleaning etc that you cant magically do in a day.

I thought that eventually I would need to re-paint a wall and need a rolling setup, I decided to purchase an 18” roller to save time.

When she moved out, I put in $16K to repaint, replace the living room/hallway floors, and replace the kitchen. 

easy. since no mold in attic, rip the drywall, replace, repaints and install a panasonic fan.nothing but panasonic goes in my rentals. installed the latest one last night.

I had to re-paint and get professionally clean.       

Now, they have asked us to pay for paint so they can repaint the living room ("the current color was a crappy job", they demand a backsplash in the kitchen....I understand I have repaired more often than what tenants would like but is this ridiculous?