I was going down to the laundry room and he told me to stop at the bottom stem , he just repainted the concrete floor because he spilled stuff on it and it bothered him .

I actually had to start communicating with the manager of that department directly because the person I was working with wouldn't get back to me in a timely fashion.When I moved in the house was dirty and badly needed to have many interior walls repainted.  

ThanksI don't allow my tenants to make any modifications to the property such as repainting, installing new flooring, etc. 

Since we didn't have to repaint the interior, the only method that worked getting the smoke stench out of their was hiring an odor remediation company (~$750 for that size of house).

I bet what will happen is that:The property will be brought to compliance and inspected by J and without him doing the work.That J will give the money back to S and probably pay for related and moving expenses.That J will get a lead inspection and it will probably be free of lead (built in the 60s) but everything has been repainted and clean, so it will probably be good.

You need to ask what repairs the property needs (say it needs updated kitchen and bath, new carpet, repainting, etc.).

I would also want to repaint the cabinets in the kitchen and put some new handles on them to fix them up a bit.My return still seems pretty low.

I could go on for pages on detail of all the things the contractor did during the remodel (bleaching concrete floors etc and what we tried once the remodel was complete, repainting walls with oil based kills, sealing tile grout on brand new floors, hi powered ozoneators for weeks. 

Missed 2 months rent, paid a property manager twice to find a tenant for the house, spending money to deep clean the place, repaint, have carpets cleaned, replace lights, etc...  

We repainted the doors, purchased a new mattress for the murphy bed and purchased a few small kitchen gadgets.