[HamiltonJay]

Ah, I see, so you are contending that listing agents are intentionally selling smokers houses cheaper, as a grand conspiracy against smoking?

Man, you have been smoking WAY more than tobacco if you believe that crap.

Agents are paid a commission, the they get a percentage of the sale price, they want to get the highest price they can for a property... otherwise they affect their own pocketbook. If you think agents are collectively going, hey, lets underlist this property just to screw this smoker... you are NUTS.

Fact is, houses of smokers by and large smell, very often are visibly affected by the habbit as well, and frankly buyers aren't going to pay top dollar for a house needing work.... That's reality.... DEAL WITH IT.

[Just another Joe]

Reality is that everyone is different and unique.
Not until the end of this thread did you even acknowledge the fact that it is POSSIBLE that a smokers house even has the chance that it doesn't smell of smoke and doesn't have a dingy tint to the walls.
You have made blanket statements that smokers houses stink and are filthy.
If you can't own up to those facts you don't have a grasp on reality.

As for, "contending that listing agents are intentionally selling smokers houses cheaper, as a grand conspiracy against smoking?" - No it's not the listing agents that are a part of the conspiracy, they are just the dupes.
Like I said, what about the smokers house that doesn't smell of old stale tobacco and doesn't have a dingy tint to the walls. Now that the anti-smokers are wailing about smokers houses stinking and being filthy, (I wonder where that came from?), the listing agents won't even try to get a fair price for ANY house that has had a smoker living in it. Wouldn't be PC, would it?

I agree with you that IF a house stinks, for whatever reason, and if a house has tint to the walls, for whatever reason, it will lower the price.
If a house doesn't stink, even though a smoker has lived there, and if it doesn't have a tint to the walls, even if a smoker has lived there, it should not affect the price.
Now that the antis are putting out this BS it won't matter. If a smoker trys to sell a house, no matter WHAT the condition, the listing agent won't try to get the same price as for a nonsmokers house.

More unfair demonization of smokers. See the picture forming?