[tenants leaving a long-term let: need to paint??]

I appreciate you all taking tie to reply. Its now sounds clear we do need to paint and at least we know to do it now rather than meet a big bill in the future. Thanks

[tenants leaving a long-term let: need to paint??]

Hi

We are tenants and leaving a house we have rented for three years in France. The agency has told us we need to paint the house or be charged to have the decorators in. There is just normal wear and tear, but with white walls everything shows. Is it correct we have to paint it ourselves or pay. We don't expect our tenants in UK to paint the walls on moving out.