STINK AND F I L T H????????? Where do you get off!
And how about those of us who have to heat in the winter with WOOD FIRES???? I have a big wood furnace in the basement that I used 5-6 months out of the year. Believe me......it's a good heat but a dirty one. But that's how we heat our homes here.
Your "fact" is different then my "fact" of getting exactly what I wanted out of it.
If you don't like the smell, then don't buy the house - it's very simple.
There is no Lie about the stink and filth that a house of a smoker has versus a non smoker.
That is an extremely nasty thing to say to a fellow FReeper. You have no clue what my house was like. If you don't like it don't buy it, but to become insulting is absolutely uncalled for.
Super! So I get a reduced tax rate,right?
There's NOTHING simple about this drive to demonize smokers, and this is just another link in that reprehensible chain.
Not necessarily, there are many other factors, even expensive houses today are buildt on postage stamp size lots, we are now pretty well in the middle of town, with 1/2 acre lot, then there is location, location, location, we have that too.
Why on resale? If that's true, then smokers should get automatic devaluations on their assessments from like properties inhabited by non-smokers since you say their property values are less, and therefore smokers should be paying less property taxes. However, I highly doubt that dog would hunt at the assessor's office. This article is just another tactic of the anti-smoker community to try to further dehumanize smokers by inciting normal, average people to believe this malarky, since the message is that if smokers' houses really do sell for less, then that would pull down all valuations within the neighborhood because houses are normally valued on like sales. I never once saw a comparative market appraisal list that house A was owned by a smoker therefore the house was devalued over house B which is owned by a non-smoker. Think about it.
The truth about what drives the price of real estate sales is location, location, and location... period. The same exact style house on two sides of the street may bring different prices, just because of the location, views, and curb appeal.
HamiltonJay also says, "There is no Lie about the stink and filth that a house of a smoker has versus a non smoker. I've had to seal repaint, and cleanup and replace enough carpet in homes and apartments of habitual smokers..."
While I'm fairly certain you are sincere, I do think that you make it sound like all smokers are pigs and the smoke smell is damn near impossible to get out. In reality, you just had bad tenants who didn't clean responsibly. The fact is that both the smoking and non-smoking communities have their fair share of slobs, especially as renters, and home-owners who overextend so as not being able able to keep up with simple, standard maintenance. The statement you made stated correctly would be "There is no Lie about the stink and filth of a bad tenant compared to a good conscientious tenant", not necessarily smoker vs non-smoker. As I see it, renters just don't have pride in ownership, and many (not all) have no respect at all for others' property. I used to move quite a bit (every year or two) and have rented at least a dozen different houses over the years. Never once was I refused my security deposit being returned because of these excessive cleanup costs which you list. In fact, all houses I left were given a good scrubbing before I moved out. I'm sure that not a single landlord of mine ever had more cleanup costs from me than the typical non-smoking tenant and they all may have even had less. Furthermore, as some have stated that the smoke permeates all wood all wallboard, then every house that had even the smallest of house fires should be a total loss due to smoke and soot permeation throughout the house. I once bought a house that even had a previous kitchen fire. A little repair work and paint and no one with the sharpest of olfactory senses could have told the difference. I sure didn't. In fact, I lived in it for six years before doing a little remodeling and finding the remnants of the fire behind a wall.
All this article does is try to influence minds of normal people bombarded with never-ending subliminal and some not so subliminal messages as illustrated by Joe Bob Brigg's article Non Fumar? Comprende and reinforce the value system of those politically correct lemmings to love to follow the anti-smoker pied-piper in demonizing 1/4 of the population. Before you get mad thinking I'm throwing an ad hom at you, I do place you in the ranks of the former.