Smoking is no longer vogue. Get your favorite golden ring and place it on top of a burning candle – It will quickly be covered with soot. This is what happens to every inch of a home when you smoke in it, which results in a loss of value. If you thought it was about your health alone, realize that your cash ‘health’ is at stake too.
It a consensus among our top gay realtors that people hesitate from buying a home that once belonged to a smoker. No smoke of course is visible, but the evidence is vivid. It never goes without a saying that ‘where there is smoke there is fire’. The fire in this situation is that potential home sellers might miss that one shot you have always been waiting for, reselling your home.
Studies from gay real estate agents have suggested that smoking could devastatingly reduce the value of a home resale by shocking thousands of dollars. A single smoker in a home would likely reduce the house value by 20% on average.
Estimating the overall damage of smoking on real estate is tricky. You can imagine if smells such as dampness, pets or cooking could affect the sale price of a home, smoke is much worse. Over time smoke penetrates even the tiniest of particles in paint, wallpaper, woodwork and of course carpet and draperies, making a thorough cleaning almost impossible without major replacements and repaints.
This is a serious economic matter besides the health effects associated with it. You can imagine how people in a condo or apartment building feel when they inhale the cigarette smoke that is penetrating through the shared heating or ventilation systems. This stands as the main reason why many HOA firms have banned smoking in their property.
Third hand smoking might seem as a petty issue, buts it’s a devil in disguise. Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have demonstrated how third hand smoke can cause great damage to the human cells. In a more scientific term, it’s carcinogenic and human beings can be exposed to it through ingestion, inhalation or skin contact.
The scientists have clear evidence that wiping, vacuuming the house or improving the ventilation doesn’t do much when trying to recover the mess caused by nicotine contamination.
When it comes to protecting the value of your home, take the smoking outside – when it comes to the value of your life, we suggest to quit altogether… for help you may contact smokefree.gov.
