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Smoking is additive where it is extremely difficult to quit unless you drop dead. Compared to home owners tenants are more likely to be smokers as this could have been used for down payment for a mortgage. In ones lifetime smoking can cost a million dollars where every week the money spent on cigarettes would be invested instead of smoking. --74.15.xxx.xxx

Keep track of who you've denied in the past and you wouldn't be messing with him now. --174.201.x.xx

Robert - I disagree that it's hard to quit. Your why has to be big enough. Smoked myself for a little over 10 years and quit cold turkey. That was 13 years ago. Had a family member that smoked for around 30 years and quit cold turkey. That was 10ish years ago. You just have to have the discipline. It's easier not to quit, that's why most don't. --98.175.xxx.xxx

I smoked for 30 years (Marlboro Red Pack) and have been quit about 24 years. 71 now and in good health. --76.0.xxx.xxx

Just charge the seal/prime/refinishing cost in the next rent cycle - I have often found this cost about 250-300 per room and with a double rent value deposit it almost all gets used to pay the painters so if they are already there this is the only time I would split payments because the damage was more than the rent, the rent would be double the next 2 cycles - this often leads to an eviction, in court it is just a cost of living - no punishment. --76.188.xxx.xx

Doogie,you are an unusual person and to be congratulated I have never smoked so I don't know how hard it is.But all the stuff the tobacco companies put in their products to hook people seems to pay off for them.and like Robert in Toronto says people wonder why they can't afford a house,we know,Don't we............charlie................................................ --174.199.xx.xxx

Oh!Bill,so you were the guy in that add,you looked good !...................charlie........ ......................................m.. --174.199.xx.xxx

We still have one inherited tenant who smokes in his unit. It was yellow with nicotine stains when we bought the building. This old guy already has lung cancer, is bald from the chemo and getting very frail. His wife died about 2 years ago. I don't have the heart to boot him out in his last months. I am ambivalent about the eventual rehab of his unit. It is going to be a huge task, but I want to get it done and over with. God's timing, I guess. --98.146.xxx.xxx

It was easy to quit. I quit 13 times. --24.123.x.xxx

One rental unit when tenant moved out went in with a pressure washer to clean the nicotine off the walls then painted with a oil base primer sealer before painting. It was amazing the amount of nicotine that came off the walls with a pressure washer. Tenants more or less live for today not tomorrow where the life style smoking, drinking along with nice vacations, vehicles they remain tenants forever as there are no savings or down payment for a house. --72.142.xxx.xx

Two YEARS or more later, place still has an odor. This after cleaning, painting TWICE, replacing all kinds of stuff, etc. --50.82.xxx.xx

Pro Block oil base primer from Sherwin Williams worked very well for me. I used it to prime a 10 year chain smoker house then went over it with flat latex. Minimal cleaning or surface prep. I did sponge mop some paneling with dollar store ammonia, otherwise just roll it on. --157.204.x.x

YOu cant even smoke in HUD anymore. "bad past smokers"? are they any good past smokers? --74.104.xxx.xxx

My sorority sisters smoked so I started. I quit ten years later as I could not smoke at work and every time I inhaled I got a pain in my stomach. I cut down on the strength and smoked True cigarettes. Then I cut down on the number of those and when I got down to three a day I could just stop but I ate salted sunflower seeds, pre shelled. I just wanted them and didn't know why. Now I know that sunflower seeds have nicotine in them so they helped with the craving. I ate one spoonful when craving a cigarette and I didn't have to feel bad. The reason people have trouble quitting is that the body grows larger veins to get enough oxygen to the brain when someone smokes. So in between smokes there is too much oxygen going through those larger veins and a person starts to feel funny and has to grab another smoke. Too much oxygen is toxic. Cutting down on strength and number helps the veins to shrink back to normal and carry less oxygen to the brain than the abnormally large veins. --73.178.xxx.xx

bet [MA] apparently he thinks he's a good smoker. TOO funny, eh Told me how he always gets his full deposit back, blah blah. I did tell him I didn't think it was fair to me to have smokers punish me by smoking in my house and costing me money --97.44.x.xxx

BRAD --68.50.xxx.xxx

And about 45 years later I was getting my teeth cleaned last year and the hygienist asked me how long ago I quit smoking. She could tell I had smoked from my gums after all these years! Amazing. --47.216.xx.xxx

I now ask if the smoke outside to try and catch them in a lie --73.114.xx.xxx

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Mostly Class C rentals for me. I charge a tobacco fee of $300. And get it. Covers smokers, chewers, and spitters. Like Richard of Michigan, most lower-income renters smoke. --75.104.x.xxx

Nice reward for non smokers! Would you happen to be a non smoker? Next! --66.148.xxx.xxx

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