We bought a flipped home in 2013. Over the years, we've noticed that the paint chips and scratches very easily. We always thought this was about bad paint but we have recently started repainting rooms with quality paint. The other day, I scratched a newly painted surface with the corner of a desk. It was barely a rub that resulted in a white, powdery gouge. Is it possible that it wasn't cheap paint but low quality drywall or drywall mud?
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Those pictures lead me to believe that the walls were textured maybe right before the flip and weren't primed and sealed prior to being painted. Now, you've just painted over a weak surface.