If the walls were damaged enough to require patches as opposed to just filling small holes or if an entire wall or the room needed to be repainted entirely then I would charge for that.

A fantastic Wall Street Journal article reviews the renewed interest in vocational training, manufacturing and hands-on labor fields.

Several had mint green walls with dark brown trim, and hardwood floors that hadn’t seen love in a very long time.

There was no way to know during inspections because you can't see behind walls and everything was working at the time.Versus I had another client buy a home built in the 70s.

Intuitively, probably just do a price reduction because once you open up walls, who knows what else you might find.

There are more factors to consider here but from a surface level, it seems your $ will go further in another market or perhaps locally with a different property type (i.e. small multifamily).Lastly, I like @Andrew Jennings Freerks' point regarding claiming hardship or another workaround for keeping your unit as a rental.

+1 with @Jaron Walling on applying asap @Lisa Mallory.

I hired them to rent out my condo/apartment and was told that a “professional photographer” would be coming to take pictures, instead a man came with 3 small children that were kicking our freshly painted walls/trim while he snapped pictures with an old phone.

Inspections are good start, but they don't check anything that the inspector cannot see so once you start opening walls, you might be in a big surprised.

When you choose a living situation with other people above, below or beside you that share walls, especially an older building, you should not be surprised that you may hear babies cry, toilets flush, alarm clocks, phone calls, etc.