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There are obviously exceptions, but by in large, you can tell the minute you walk in the door, if not before (just like you can tell if they owned a pet etc).

I seriously doubt you would have gone on the way you have on this thread had the article been about pet owners.

I seriously doubt you would have referred to the STENCH and FILTH of pet owners the way you have about smokers.

Get over yourself. So you're a real estate mogul, big whoop - my experience is people in real estate are as, if not even more, corrupt than people in politics. And those in both are the worst. That's REALITY.

You don't like it, too bad.

Ah yes, more name calling, and hardly would I consider myself a Mogul... I would be going on just as much if it was about pet owners and people denying that smells and things affect the saleability of a home!

Just fixed up a house that absolutely REAKED of dog urine, previous owners owned 2 big dogs, and just locked em in the house while they would leave town for days at a time... was joyous time getting rid of the carpet, replacing the bad flooring and sealing it all up!

I have never cared whether you smoke or don't smoke in your house. Denying however that it doesn't impact a houses ability to sell is false.

Like I stated before, you think used car salesmen detail their new inventory and spray it with new car scent because they want to spend that money? Hell no, they know that a car sporting the nicotine/tar film and smelling of cigarettes won't sell as quickly or for as much as a clean fresh smelling car. Dirt and smell detract from ANY commodity for sale, period. Whether that smell be coming from smoke, pet urine, or sewage backup.

As to being corrupt, well keep up the name calling, it suits you, it really does, you wear it well.

So lets see, how am I corrupt, I buy beat up old delapidated properties, that are largely bringing down property values around them, I fix them up, (employing various contractors, purchasing hardware and products, providing income for numberous companies) bringing them back to great repair, raising the property values of the neighborhood and sell them to a new owner to live in and raise his family in, returning what is often a dead asset to the tax rolls which provides more revenue for the community, improving property values of the entire area raising the neighbors resale values.. and I get thanked by the people I sell the homes to, and the neighbors who are glad to see that beat up old problem house being fixed up, provide revenue for dozens of companies that helps them employ workers....

Yea, I am just one corrupt SOB... Damn, someone put me in JAIL... how dare I actually do things to improve a neighborhood and lives of a family wanting a home? Someone please put me away!! Stop me before I provide another family with decent affordable and safe housing to raise their kids in.

Save your crabs in the bucket, class envy mentality for DU.. its got no place here.