Where can my nephew find a place to live that won't care if he smokes?

[Anonymous]

We rent out our basement apartment and we can smell smoke if the tenant smokes. Your nephew wouldn't even be in a separate apartment if he rents a room. No way he can keep the smoke from going to the rest of the house and there's no reason a landlord should trust someone he doesn't know to keep the smoke outside.

[Anonymous]

We live in a condo, and we can smell smoke in our unit if one of our immediate neighbors is smoking. disgusting. if he can't understand why someone wouldn't want to rent to him if he plans to smoke inside, he sounds very young - like 19. can he stay with you?

[Anonymous]

We rent out a basement apartment, and no way, no how would we ever rent to anyone who smokes. Even outdoors. Can't deal with the smell anywhere on my property and don't want the butts tossed anywhere and everywhere.

Plus, smoking is an indicator that a person is more likely to trash your place.

[Anonymous]

What about your nephew living/renting a room from you? Would you allow him to smoke in your house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about your nephew living/renting a room from you? Would you allow him to smoke in your house?

Ohh, good point!

[Anonymous]

Wow people are so helpful. Helicopter aunting? I'm sorry you find my desire to help my mentally impaired nephew a place of his own in a strange city so offensive.

I do appreciate the Dominion Arms poster - thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow people are so helpful. Helicopter aunting? I'm sorry you find my desire to help my mentally impaired nephew a place of his own in a strange city so offensive.

I do appreciate the Dominion Arms poster - thanks!

Look, your post suggested merely that you were trying to facilitate his smoking, and that's what we were responding to. Absent a mental impairment, it does seem over the top for an older family member to find a 19-year-old a place to rent, especially in order to make it easier for him to maintain an unhealthy habit. You're kind to help him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He sounds like a pretty gross kind of smoker since he can't even see why someone renting a room wouldn't want him smoking in their house.

Maybe you should let him do his own looking for a place -- he could do with some maturity.

THIS

[Anonymous]

Too bad he lives in America. He should try to find a place to live where people don't try to impose their beliefs on others.

[Anonymous]

I might be Captain Obvious, but did you guys try craigslist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too bad he lives in America. He should try to find a place to live where people don't try to impose their beliefs on others.

Ironically, its often those who preach tolerance who are the most judgmental to smokers. Yet, most usually don't seem to have any problems with alcohol, which is a recreational drug that alters consciousness, unlike smoking, and ruins more lives and kills more innocent bystanders than smoking does.

I would love to see the judgment and vitriol aimed at smokers also aimed at drinkers and see what the public reaction is then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a smoker who smokes in the house, it can be your own house, whatever..is a piece of shit, lazy ass and gross. Honestly...why don't you get your damn cigarette and go outside? I can remember my mom...always smoking in front of me and my brother while we were all watching TV! What a piece of shit!

And you're very classy to call your mom a piece of shit. Lovely.

[Anonymous]

Well, I suppose it wasn't nice of PP to have said this about her mother. On the other hand, that pales in comparison to her mother's selfishness in exposing her family to second-hand smoke. Unless PP is one of our older contributors, the health problems that follow from exposure to second-hand smoke were probably fairly well known at the time.

I don't know what to tell OP, except that the problems her nephew is encountering are inevitable... unless he stops smoking indoors. Smokers are undesirable as tenants and even close neighbors for all the reasons mentioned above. There's no logic in comparing smoking to other "vices", since anyone with lungs and a nose is going to be unable to remain oblivious to the trouble a smoker causes that lingers in the air, on our (non-smokers unlucky enough to have to temporarily smell like smokers) persons, and on all surfaces well after the smoker has proceeded on his phlegmatic way.

[Anonymous]

You don't need to tell anyone that you are a smoker if you only smoke outdoors. I used to smoke, and I was a courteous smoker but I would never tell my landlord if I smoked because it was MY business not his. I would also NEVER smoke indoors and I kept a very clean smelling house. One could almost never tell I was a smoker, let alone a smoker lived in my place because I didn't allow myself to reek of smoke.

So, if your nephew is willing to be very clean and wash his clothes often, never smoke indoors, and never smoke close to the house (if he isn't in an apartment building), then he shouldn't *have* to tell anyone he is a smoker.

[Anonymous]

There is an Apt. bldg. in City of Falls Church, the Broad Falls that allows smoking in apartments. An efficiency is probably arounf $1100.00 and includes all utilities but telephone. Try them.