Paint, kitchen/bath touch ups, etc.

He tried to bill me for "Touchup" work but he hasn't even installed everything.

The property I got is in the medical center, a $260k, 4 bed, 2.5 bath house, newly replaced roof, 20 year old AC, 20 year old water heater, all old appliances basically, high water pressure, and yeah overall outdated house that needed some touchups.

I find that if you have to go back and touch up paint down the road it will look different if it was just sprayed originally.

If it's only a year or two, we check it out first and see if a touch-up will do.  

It takes a lot of coats to get there, but this will often hide imperfections.But for the walls, you should to with darker colors that go on easier and are.much easier to touch up.

After the initial set up, I go to my STR before the busy season to take inventory of linens and consumables like soap etc, replace or repair linens or small items, touch up paint, and get my eyes on the property to make sure everything is in good repair. 

I use dark walnut stain for easy touch-up when required.

I can tell you right now the cost for sheetrock, labor to install, mud and tape and sand to level 5, prime and 2 coats of paint (7 different colors throughout house), touchups were about the same as what you seem to have been charged. 

I have to remove the nails on the walls, add fillers, touch up and repaint some part of the home.