[TXBubba]

I'm not an anti-smoker nazi but what I read of the article looked factual to me. I had a friend who bought the home of a smoker. They scrubed the doors in the house numerous times to get all the black stuff off. Ended up having to just buy new doors. Obviously they bought the thing with the knowledge it was a smoker's house. They just figured they would be able to wash the stuff off and clean it up. Easier said than done. They didn't realize how much the smoke permeates the wood and drywall. Same can be said for used cars.

[DannyTN]

We looked at buying a smokers home because the price was way below what other homes of the same square footage cost.

But we looked at it from the standpoint that we would change all of the carpet and paint all of the walls. By the time we got through adding up the cost the difference wasn't worth the aggravation.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

You are so right. Smoker houses stink. Then your clothes stink when you sit on the furniture.

Bring a suitcase with you. Yep, that will stink too.

I once bought a smoker's car. I thought that the headliner was tan, but I scrubbed it when I got it home. Much to my surprise, it was white after I got all the dripping tar off of it.

[Gabz]

I recently sold a house in Delaware.

The Real Estate business in Delaware is rather corrupt, and considering they rely on 2 of the most corrupt anti-smokers in the US as they're so-called experts, leaves me scratching my head.

My first real estate agent couldn't even bother making any effort to show my house. she has known me for years and always knew I was a smoker. She said it wasn't a problem.

Needless to say she made no effort to even show my house so I found another agent.

This woman did not know that we were smokers until she saw us working in the yard one day while visitng my next door neighbor. She sold the house for us, and rather quickly. and we got exactly what we wanted for it.

It is articles like this that make it an issue and people such as Repace and Banzhaf who earn their living finding more ways to denormalize, demonize, and dehumanize smokers.

[ladtx]

I agree. The lady in the next door apartment smoked like a chimney. It seeped through the walls in my closet, my clothes smelled of cigarette smoke. It wasn't until she moved out that the odor went away.

[doc30]

Just bought a house from major smokers. Place really smelled bad, but didn't worry about it. There was enough remodelling to be done that the smoke smell and stains were history when I got done with the place. The whole place needed to be repainted, trimmed and carpeted anyway so the presence of the smoke smell was moot. At least the amount I spent was about equal to the difference between the appraised value and what I paid for it :)

[Dead Dog]

There is a mixture of lysol and bleach that works great for cleaning walls.

[Godebert]

"I'm not an anti-smoker nazi but what I read of the article looked factual to me. I had a friend who bought the home of a smoker. They scrubed the doors in the house numerous times to get all the black stuff off. Ended up having to just buy new doors. Obviously they bought the thing with the knowledge it was a smoker's house. They just figured they would be able to wash the stuff off and clean it up. Easier said than done. They didn't realize how much the smoke permeates the wood and drywall."

You're either mistaken or lying. Tobacco smoke leaves a tan/yellow film on woodwork and walls, not "black". It comes right off with simple green and a sponge.

[PJ-Comix]

They didn't realize how much the smoke permeates the wood and drywall. Same can be said for used cars.

Same can be said for people too. Even after they quit smoking the smoke lingers on for a long time as it slowly oozes out of their pores.

[auggy]

"They scrubed the doors in the house numerous times to get all the black stuff off."

If, it was black, it wasn't cigarette smoke. At least, I have never seen a black residue caused by cigarettes.

Cigarettes leave a dirty yellow residue. It is nasty. We moved into this house 10 years ago. We vowed to never smoke in the house, just the garage. I am right now in the process of painting the inside of the garage. It is a dingy yellowed white.

[lewislynn]

I had a friend who bought the home of a smoker.

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They didn't realize how much the smoke permeates the wood and drywall. Same can be said for used cars.

All lies. Smoke doesn't harm anything it touches or anyone who breathes it...

Don't take my word for it, ask any one of the smoke filled brains on this thread.

[Old Professer]

They didn't realize how much the smoke permeates the wood and drywall. Same can be said for used cars.

I knew a guy that lived right at the corner of a busy intersection; he was always trying to get used cars off his walls.