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If you smoke in your house, you are driving down your property value on resale, its just a pure and simple fact.

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.

This has nothing to do with buying the house or not, it has to do with the fact that like it or not, a house that has been lived in by a smoker, and particularly a heavy smoker, will not sell for the same amount of money as a comparable non smoking house! And you know what else, even if the new buyer is a SMOKER THEMSELVES the price still will be lower on average for a home of a smoker!

That's reality! Reality is, no one will pay more to buy a house with tar stained walls, and smelly carpets... that's just fact. You can deny reality all day long, but its true.

I don't personally care if you smoke in your home, in fact for me I prefer you did, so I know I can get it cheaper than another house... but buying your home isn't what this is about.

Its about the statistical reality, a home of a smoker sells for less than a home for a non smoker, by and large, and the reason is simple... they tend to SMELL and they tend to be FILTHY. If you are offended by the fact that anyone with working eyes can detect the brownish tinge your once white walls have that's not my problem, and that anyone with a working nose can smell the years of smoke upon entering your front door, that's not my problem either. People pay less for dirty homes.... regardless of the reason, whether it be smoke, or dog smell or anything else.

Reality doesn't afford you an outcome to your liking.