Atleast the police car in the parking lot from the one cop who lives here now keeps away those up to no good. When ever someone moves out they have a guy shampoo the carpet and paint the walls and ceiling. Can you imagine sealing all that gunk in there and the fans for our ac's are made into the walls. I can imagine what his fan looks like and you cannot take those out and clean them without practically tearing out the wall. Not to mention what the air ducts must look like in his place.
Dont get me wrong..I like the guy who lives back there. His name is Junior. I even gave him stuff from our garden last year. He is a very nice guy.
We have two landlords here. One is a snob that I hate to deal with and the other is a fairly easy going guy. Neither of them like to deal with Jon cause he is so high strung. Jon always deals with the snotty one and I'll deal with the nice one. Maybe Ill get lucky and smokey will move on of these days.
It is bothering me worse right now because he just came back and my air conditioner has been out for 2 weeks. With no heat on in here in the middle of winter it will get 87+ degrees. I have been constantly opening the windows and the door to cool it down in here. With no ac to circulate the air the smoke is that much more aggevating. I havent heard anything from the repair guy since he came and checked it out. He said the compressor is out and he was ordering a new one. That was last week. Im gonna have to call him tomorrow and see if he even got a new one ordered.
Did I mention that the ac units for these apartments are on the roof?

This is one of the things you have to deal with when you rent.

As for smoking laws, I find many of the new ones a bit over reaching. To tell a bar they cannot serve a legal product is pretty ridiculous. If they want to ban tobacco, than do it, but don't sit there and reap the taxes from it, then make it basically illegal to use anywhere but some cave somewhere.

Personally myself, I have had more adverse reactions to peoples perfume/cologne than smoke. Those old women who bathe in it make my eyes water and lungs hurt.

I am a former smoker(not by choice but because of a lung disability) and I live in n.y where smoking is prohibited in all public places. Thank God, because I now cannot toleriate the smell of smoke (to say nothing about being on oxygen)

Jafo, I must agree on the perfumes, also those stinky air freshner things!!
However, Janie I feel like I am reading something from twenty years ago. here, as Kevin said Alaska was pretty forward in the smoking bans.
The whole west coast is pretty smoke free. You can still smoke in some bars here, but most rental ads here say "no smoking"

Funny about the bars and restaurants, in some areas when a bar would go non smoking, business would drop off, and it was bad for the owners, but in a majority of cases, when it came back, it was better as the non smokers were coming in. I almost think that having to go outside to smoke would make some people quit--doesn't seem to work that way?
And, many of my friends who do smoke and chose not to smoke in their homes, love working in a smokefree establishment!

and to the best of my knowledge bars in Washington and California do not usually sell tobacco. Some here do and not sure about Oregon?

Janie, how many of the other tenants smoke? Seem you guys could get together and when this guy moves? talk to the owners about going non smoking? I would never live in a place with smoke in the building, and I do go in some smoking bars.
I know that part of the country has more smokers, but you can be a revolutionary!
take care,
Nan

This area will be one of the very last places to do a smoking ban. To many tobacco farmers and heavy smokers in this area. Each two apartments that are side by side have the connected vents. There is no risk of smoke from any other apartment but his. I know the young couple on the back corner smoke but they do it on the balcony mostly. I see their chairs and ashtray out there alot. I know the lady who lives in the apartment next to them doesnt smoke but it may not bother her. The two men on the other end dont smoke.

I was waiting in the office the day the one landlord was interviewing the young couple before renting to them. He asked them everything you could imagine but I never once heard him mention smoking. Both landlords are lucky enough that it doesnt bother them so they dont care. In this area if you complain about smoking you get treated like your the one with the problem. I went to the new McDonalds a week ago and while I was waiting for our order to go I asked one of the employees if the whole place was non smoking now. She looked almost afraid to answer me but after she told me yeah I said awesome! She looked relieved and told me they had some people get really angry that the place was non smoking now.
They dont care who they rent to here as long as they arent into anything illegal, pay their rent and are quiet.

I asked the manager at one of the local grocery stores about the smoking and he said he couldnt do anything about it. Told me it wasnt anything the store could do. He said there had to be a county ban passed. I said funny thing then how are Taco Bell, Kmart, McDonalds and Arbys all non smoking already?
Then he said he couldnt do anything about it because the store was owned by some company in Lexington and it was up to them :rolleyes: Did I mention he is a smoker.