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In India, you can lean on your landlord to repaint before you move in (labor and supplies are cheap). However it's annoying if you're moving in anywhere between June to September because the landlord can use the excuse of the monsoons to put off doing the job (allegedly the paint doesn't dry well because of the high humidity and leads to cracks in the damp walls). Ours promised us he would do it in January but by then we had been living in the apartment for 4 months and were too lazy to empty rooms and deal with fumes and painters traipsing through the house. Hiring a guy for a day to sand, prime and paint costs about $15 and sometimes he comes with his own rollers, brushes etc.

big points for doing this in India! How did you source this stuff? Must have cost a pretty penny.