Selling a smoker's house

bouicca21

A lot depends on just how heavy a smoker she is.

I cannot bear the smell - it makes me feel sick - but I have one friend who smokes mainly at the back door and only occasionally in the house and I find that quite ok. It wouldn't put me off as a buyer.

If the smell is pronounced, it's a whole different matter. I'd expect a discount given the sheer hard work of sugar soaping the interior and redecorating throughout. Though tbh I'd probably be feeling so ill that I wouldn't complete the viewing.

Anatidaephobia

It would put me off. The house would have to show a lot of potential and be considerably cheaper to warrant the extra effort and time required to sort it out.

I have an elderly relative who smokes pretty much non stop in her house. Her son in law repaints her living room almost every year but it doesn't last long then it's yellow and stained again. It feels like there's no air in that house anymore, it's just cigarette smoke.

nonnatus

Good Grief, some of you must have extraordinarily sensitive noses!

I'll take a smokers house over a house that has housed more than one CAT anytime! Eughhhh.

mrsammyp

We recently have bought a place which had a resident smoker and every room has had to be stripped back, sugar soaped and redecorated. We thought we could get away with having the carpets professionally cleaned but a slight smell still remained, we decided to pull up the carpet and the underlay had soaked up the smoke like a sponge.