I've been leasing an old home for the last 3 years. I was told when I moved in that the deposit of $1100 is non refundable if we smoked cigarettes in the house. It is a 3 room, no carpet house. I've painted one room since a smoker has left and need to paint another heavy smokers' room because u can clearly see the stained walls after removing posters/paintings. As for my room, I never hung any posters/paintings so the walls are all consistant, but am still thinking about painting. My question is, are there any other things i should do to fully cover my tracks. I'm moving to college in August and it would be a huge BONUS if i could pay half my tuition with this forums advice
I don't think a home owner would want his tennant to be painting anything, but I could be wrong. It is, after all, HIS house. When it comes time to put it back on the market, he may have issues concerning that. Anyway, I'm a landlord myself, and that's how I'd feel about it.
No amount of paint or air freshener will disguise 3 years of smoking - it's in the carpet, it's in the walls, it's in everything that you own probably. My mom is a smoker but doesn't do it insider her apartment and even then my whole family comes home reeking of smoke whenver we visit her. Smokers tend to get desensitized to the smell, but a non-smoker will pick it up right away.
I'm not sure you can mask a smoking smell...as its absorbed in the sheetrock...But i may be wrong...If I was a landlord, I wouldn't want the walls painted as I would think something was up...
Why should you try to "fool" your landlord? You agreed to abide by his rule, you owe the money. As a landlord myself, tenants like you are aggravating.
blame it on the neighbor... or just say you cook bbq's a lot indoors. Ok that's just silly, but hey it could work.
More info needed. Is it hardwood or carpet? Are the walls some fancy color or white? If it's carpet, get a steam cleaner. If the walls are white, Kilz primer is the way to go. That should be all you need. Honestly, if you cover up the smoke smell/evidence, that's all the landlord really wants. But I wouldn't mention the work you put in.
A friend of mine quit smoking, and the last time I was over he hadn't smoked in ten days. I told him it smelled "much better." (I was trying to encourage him and I did think it was better) When I got home and took off an extra shirt I had hung in his closet, having always brought an extra shirt to wear home in the car, the stench of cigarette smoke being more than I could handle, and not needing it (I thought), to my astonishment, it reeked of smoke. It's wild how bad cigarette smoke is and how it can linger. If you smoke, you don't notice it. If I owned that house, I would notice the smell of cigarettes, I think, and you would lose your deposit. If the house has drapes and/or mini-blinds, it's all over them. Kitchen cabinets? All over them. Inside the closets? Yes, it is there. Any surface in that house. You can paint the walls, and it'll help, I'm sure, but it won't make it go away.
Tell him you are a ****ty cook and you always burn your food or Tell him you moved your meth lab out last month and the smell will go away...
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The main reason why cigarette odors are so strong is because there is over 4 thousand chemicals in every cigarette. You would've been better off smoking weed.
