Ever live in an apartment, and have problems with cigarette smoke from other apartments? [View All]

[raccoon]

I live in an apartment building built in the late 1980’s. On Monday I came home from work and the apartment smelled like cigarette smoke. (This also happened Monday or Tuesday a week ago, can’t remember which.)

There are six (maybe 7, I’m not sure) units in the one-story building. The apartment behind me, the tenant smokes. Also in one other apartment, the tenant smokes.

I have discussed this with the property manager and she provided me with an air freshening machine and said she’ll have the maintenance man replace the heater/AC filter.

Monday was very warm in my area, and my thought is that the tenant behind me was either running the AC, or possible the fan over the stove (her stove would back up to my stove) and that caused the smoke smell to get into my apartment. The reason I’m thinking this is that I haven’t noticed the smoky smell every day when I get home. It seems like it would be every day, unless it’s coming from the fan over the stove (which most people wouldn’t run every day.)

It’s about time to sign my lease, and now I don’t know what I’m going to do about that. Much as I hate moving, if I have to put up with the odor like it was on Monday, I’ll move.

Only thing is, if I move, how do I know I won’t run into this problem again? I’ve lived in apartments before and never had this problem.

Any thoughts?