So my girlfriend and I are moving into a new place. I'm moving because I've been a lazy parent moocher and she is moving because her rent is just too damn high and in the past couple months my car has been broken into in front of her place and her place has been broken into with a ton of electronics stolen. 

The landlords had agreed to put bars on the windows but in 2 months had failed to do so. Now comes move out time. We cleaned everything in the apartment, took everything down, scrubbed and cleaned EVERY surface, I would eat off the floor of this place GDI! The landlord comes to look at the place and talk over how much security would be returned. We bought spackle and they have paint, to cover holes from shelves and pictures and such, the landlord is saying that they are going to charge 160/day for a guy to come in and spackle and paint the walls and that they cannot just "touch up" the affected areas and that if we were to do it, it wouldn't be acceptable because it just wouldn't be as good. Granted I know that paint hues can vary ever so slightly from batch to batch and that dirt can make older paint look darker, BUT! Do I have any recourse in terms of him charging 160 fucking dollars for normal living wear and tear like holes for anchors for shelves? Especially when we are willing to fix it, I'm an engineer and very handy and she's an artist of sorts, we can patch up a fucking wall! Also level of cleanliness? How clean is acceptable, they also want to charge 100/day for a cleaning person(s). Like i said, this shit is sparkling already? Any advice, can she do anything? There aren't move in pictures to reference what was started with.
user
Landlord is charging a guy 160 dollar a day to spackle and paint a wall because of a hole that was left
assistant
So my girlfriend and I are moving into a new place. I'm moving because I've been a lazy parent moocher and she is moving because her rent is just too damn high and in the past couple months my car has been broken into in front of her place and her place has been broken into with a ton of electronics stolen. 

The landlords had agreed to put bars on the windows but in 2 months had failed to do so. Now comes move out time. We cleaned everything in the apartment, took everything down, scrubbed and cleaned EVERY surface, I would eat off the floor of this place GDI! The landlord comes to look at the place and talk over how much security would be returned. We bought spackle and they have paint, to cover holes from shelves and pictures and such, the landlord is saying that they are going to charge 160/day for a guy to come in and spackle and paint the walls and that they cannot just "touch up" the affected areas and that if we were to do it, it wouldn't be acceptable because it just wouldn't be as good. Granted I know that paint hues can vary ever so slightly from batch to batch and that dirt can make older paint look darker, BUT! Do I have any recourse in terms of him charging 160 fucking dollars for normal living wear and tear like holes for anchors for shelves? Especially when we are willing to fix it, I'm an engineer and very handy and she's an artist of sorts, we can patch up a fucking wall! Also level of cleanliness? How clean is acceptable, they also want to charge 100/day for a cleaning person(s). Like i said, this shit is sparkling already? Any advice, can she do anything? There aren't move in pictures to reference what was started with.
user
If your landlord wants to charge you for doing up your apartment, how can you get them to just take the deposit
assistant