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So, I set up an appointment with a nice looking apartment that has everything I want in an apartment. Only catch is, they allow smoking in the building. I'm not a smoking prude, I enjoy the occasional social cigarette, many of my friends and coworkers smoke. I'm just not sure how I feel about living in a building that allows smoking. Besides the issue of secondhand smoke, there is the smell factor. I'm not sure the pluses of the apartment can outweigh the cons of a smoking building. The building doesn't advertise being smoke friendly, I only found out through a review, then calling the leasing office to confirm, so maybe there aren't that many smokers living there?
Would you move into a building like this? Have any of you lived in a smoking building? What was your experience? How much does smoke seep into other units, let's say if a chain smoker where to live next door? Would you do it again?
I think the only thing you can do is go there maybe early in the evening when people are home from work and smell for yourself! I've lived in smoking buildings for decades and so much depends on the layout, air flow, etc. But that was when I was a smoker myself ...
I quit regular cigs and now do the electronic thing and, honestly, I can't stand the smell now. I'm in a cottage separate from a main house but when my (very nice) smoking neighbor is out on his deck doing his thing, the smell wafts into my place through my kitchen window and there have been times when I've positioned a stand-up fan facing outwards to blow the smoke away from my place!
So many variables, so you'll really have to check out the place and see if the smoking is something you can live with. Good luck!
Do most buildings around the area not allow smoking? If so, the building may be packed with smokers who don't want to or can't rent in a non-smoking building. This doesn't sound like a good environment for you.
However, if smoking is allowed in most buildings and this is just one of many, then perhaps it wouldn't be a problem. Smoking is not prohibited in my building, but it's also not prohibited in any building in my neighborhood. So the likelihood of my having a smoking neighbor is not that high. There's a guy I ride the elevator with sometimes who really reeks of smoke (even when he is not smoking). He obviously smokes A LOT. So there's someone I wouldn't want to live above/below or to the side of.
Personally, I've never know a building to not allow smoking in the private areas of apartments. Are you saying the building allows smoking in hallways, elevators, lobbies, etc?
Personally, I've never know a building to not allow smoking in the private areas of apartments. Are you saying the building allows smoking in hallways, elevators, lobbies, etc?
Many, many rentals these days prohibit smoking in the building period. It's becoming more the norm throughout the US.
So, I enjoy the occasional social cigarette, many of my friends and coworkers smoke.
You are a smoker and you don't want to live around smokers.
Lots of tenants smoke. So I very briefly considered turning one of my rentals into "smokers welcome". The problem is that even smokers refuse to live in a house where someone else has smoked. Smokers leave a house stinking and dirty and it can cost thousands of dollars to clean up smoke stink.
If I could have just left the house stinking and dirty for the next smoker, I would have done it. But the smokers only want a spotless odorless house so they can turn it into a stinking and dirty mess all by themselves. They will live with their own yellow nicotine running down the walls, but won't move into a house that already has it.
Apartments that allow smoking are going to be loaded with smokers because they have limited options about where they can live.
But sorry, OP, I would not rent to you because you smoke and your friends smoke. You might be stuck with the stinky smokers in a smoking allowed building.
Even in a non smoking building, they will still smoke on the balconies, outside in the parking lots etc. Unless it's a smoke free zone completely, but never have seen that.
So for that reason, I would almost prefer a smoking building so they are smoking IN their apartments. I hate walking outside smelling smoke. I want fresh air!
Most of the rentals in my area clearly state "no smoking". It seems pretty standard in the Bay area.
Just to clarify, I only smoke outside, and I have MAYBE one or two cigarettes a month. I am pretty strict about people smoking in my apartment. Most of the time I smoke is outside of a bar, far away from my home. I currently live in a non smoking building, and no one has smoked in my apartment. I don't want to live in my own nicotine smell, I don't want it at all.
I don't mind smelling smoke outside, or getting the occasional wiff inside. I just don't want to be smelling it 24/7, or stink of it myself.
Years ago, and never again. It's impossible to build a high-rise or apartment building to completely prevent smoke from one unit from escaping into the hallway, common areas, or other spaces.
One of the high rises in my area had to go non-smoking after smoke was permeating someone else's unit, in fact -- they even had a scientist measure the levels of smoke in the non-smoker's unit, and apparently they measured at "smoky casino levels'.
I live in a non-smoking building, and occasionally one of my neighbors has a friend or relative visit, who smokes. I can always tell - it seeps into my bathroom and closet area and I have to wash all of my clothes to remove the smell. (Actually, the HOA has cracked down on this and I haven't had to deal with this for a few months, thankfully).
To clarify, my building doesn't allow smoking anywhere on the premises - not even private units, balconies, or out by the pool.
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