Have a small rental cottage (my home I rented out after moving back in with mum to help care for her as end of life). Tenants asked me to see them and they gave notice. All very nice etc. but on leaving (which was quite rushed) I noticed there’s some quite sizeable holes in the walls (they’ve not mentioned before). Problem is the walls are covered in anagalypta type wallpaper so if I filler and repaint them you’ll still see the patches, it’ll look really untidy. The main walls are papered in this old design so it’s not like I can re plaster or re wallpaper small sections.
They’ve asked that they get all their deposit back as they are moving away and need the money. But I don’t want it to be left as it is.
AIBU to charge them the full cost of re plastering/rewallpapering (which I imagine would be more than their deposit anyway), or what should I do?