Cementing Basement Walls

[piercehawkeye45]

I won't get into too much detail right now but I am curious if anyone here knows much about cementing over basement walls. My roommate last year used water soluble paint to decorate our ironically slightly used basement and our landlord told us to get rid of it so they could show the basement off to future tenants.

So apparently the paint does not come off with water, soap, or paint remover. The paint remover got rid of it a little bit but it made the walls look so much worse so we decided not to go that route. So we decided to paint over the paint as a temporary but hopefully permanent solution.

So now our landlord wants to cement over the basement, most likely on our dime. We have been talking to a lawyer, he has been trying to screw us over in other areas as well, but I want to get as many different opinions as possible about this.

If our basement does get cemented over, I want to make the argument of wear and tear so we do not have to pay for it. I have two pictures of the painted over walls and two pictures of walls that are showing wear. I think that is a strong enough argument but outside opinions would be very nice.

Sorry for the bad quality pictures. blah