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Local family pays $37.40 for a pack of cigarettes every day
I drove past a former residential listing I couldn't sell the other day. It has been listed with two other brokerages in the county including mine and none of us could sell it. Too bad too. Nice house, corner lot, well laid out and maintained in a good neighborhood. But the location and curb appeal wasn't the problem. It was a problem that could have been avoided but will now be nearly impossible to fix.
It was owned by cigarette smokers.
Tobacco smoking in a house is probably one of the worst impediments an owner can throw in front of a Realtor. I have seen many many buyers take one step in the doorway of a smoker's house and turn away immediately at the smell of stale tobacco smoke. It seems to permeate every absorbent material including drapes, carpet, furniture and clothes, and collect on every surface. 
The sellers thought they had resolved the situation by spraying air freshener before showings. "We can't smell anything," they'd say. The truth is, smokers have a diminished sense of smell to begin with, and have probably grown quite used to whatever odor they could still make out. And the air freshener just makes tobacco smoke smell like floral-scented tobacco smoke. It ... more

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