[CSM]

"I get off by having to smell and clean up the tar, smoke and god knows what else left by smokers in homes routinely."

Why take such a harsh stance? In our reasonable discussions you have said that you chose not to rent to smoking tenents. This clean-up must be after you chose to purchase a home that was previously inhabitated with smokers. You chose to purchase that house, probably a reduced price, and do the work to make it rentable.

That "stink and filth" most likely created a deal for you.

[SheLion]

That "stink and filth" most likely created a deal for you.

I had to push away for awhile. The nastiness of these posters FAR outweigh the stink from ANY cigarette.

Here's one for you:

[HamiltonJay]

You may be right, but that stink and filth proves exactly my point, and the point of this article. Which is, smokers homes are harder to sell and therefore sell for less money. You can defend your right to smoke in your home all day long, and that's fine and dandy, but you can't deny the fact that it affects your house in PHYSICAL ways, and those physical effects do drive down your homes value to future buyers.

No buyer, even one that smokes themselves considers walls weeping tar and other smoke related agents "clean". Smokers can object to the fact that I call this physical result of their smoking filth if they choose, but reality is that is exactly what it is viewed as. Looking at the wall that is pure white where the pictures were hanging, yet cream everywhere else, is considered dingy and filthy by buyers.

Don't have to like it, but its reality.