And then the owners are fined for bad business.
As long as the tenants are renting, they are not responsible for anything beyond the door to their apartment. Any common areas of the building are the responsibility of the owner. The exception might be if there is specific damage that the owner knows was caused by a specific tenant.
Why should the owners have to pay to clean the walls when the producers are renting and even have money for the purpose of fixing things like that?
The producers are out in September and then they don't have to worry about it. The owners would like to get another tenant after that and I'm sure they don't want all potential tenants to be turned off by graffiti. If they want to start shopping their theater around now, they have every right to make the producers pay to clean the walls.
Seriously, stop while you're...well, you're not ahead, so just stop.
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