why wait?

When in a pickle of a situation, the best thing to do is to weigh the options, decide and execute. I am in a situation where a tenant re-painted the entire apartment with a contractual agreement to reinstate the wall colour before moving out.

Corporates always try to get their way. 3 months ago, we wrote to ask if they were extending their stay. They responded weeks later in the negative, and that they will stay until the end of the contractual period. Then suddenly, they called to let me know that their employee has moved out 7 weeks earlier, and requested that the Landlord doesn't charge them the last months' rent - walls not reinstated either.

A contract is binding. Of course, there is room to be flexible on a goodfaith basis, provided both parties are meeting halfway. It's clear that if the organisation wishes to save rent, then a new tenant must be put in place. To do that, the walls should be taken care of asap, because lime green is not a neutral colour - you either like it or not. On top of that, we have just 2 weeks to month end, before the next rental is due.

Simple mathematics, either pay the $5K for the final rental or pay $1.2K for re-painting which will take 4 days.
Reading into this situation, I would say, why hold on for them to decide on what's obviously contracted - meaning, no matter how many days I wait, the walls will still have to be repainted. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking and until then, how do we secure a new tenant, because they obviously want to make sure the walls are white?

HR departments are supposed to handle all this, but are they remotely equipped to understand that when equating humans and contracts, the contract always wins.
The wall was white, now it's lime green. That's contrast enough.