Smoking: To allow or not to allow? This is a touchy issue – particularly since smoking is perfectly legal in almost all areas. Does banning smoking cut down on the number of possible rental applicants – or does it increase them? Over the past few years, a number of cities have issued ordinances that prohibit [...]

My coworkers think that it’d be just a great idea to write about last week’s volcanic explosion in Iceland…and how it relates to apartments. Sounds like a wager to me. I’ve been out of the office for a week and initially thought, perhaps as a result of the medicinal relationship I’ve developed with Robitussin ‘lo [...]

The contentious issue of smoking in apartments, which we’ve covered before, has finally made it to the DrudgeReport. This afternoon we spotted an article about a Dallas family that filed a lawsuit seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars from her former neighbor and landlord for damages incurred by smoke that had made its way into [...]

Richmond, CA, a city of about 100,000 people located in San Francisco’s East Bay, has passed a local ordinance that will ban smoking in all apartment buildings. The new law comes on the heels of another smoking ordinance passed earlier this year that prohibits smoking in public places such as parks, parades and farmer’s markets. [...]

It seems like every few months we come across a story about the controversy that surrounds a person’s right to smoke in their apartment versus the rights of other residents to have a smoke free apartment. Certainly an apartment owner has the right to ban smoking in their building and many are choosing to do [...]

Serendipitous legal circumstances may have contributed to the establishment of a new legal precedent in one northern California town located east of the San Francisco Bay; citizens of Dublin, CA may now be eligible to file temporary restraining orders to escape secondhand smoke. (photo courtesy of Mia Mabanta) From an article in the Contra Costa [...]

Smoking in rental apartments is a controversial topic. On one hand, it seems reasonable that one should be free to do all legal activities within their own home, rented or not. On the other hand, when does this right to privacy infringe upon the rights of others? The State of California may soon be intervening [...]

The town of Oxnard, California has voted to prohibit smoking in senior public housing complexes in the downtown area. The measure passed unanimously at a city council meeting on March 25th. Oxnard’s new legislation makes it the third town in California to restrict smoking in multifamily apartment rentals. Calabasas and Belmont had both previously passed [...]

When renting an apartment, one usually feels as though they are free to do as they wish, as long as it is within the bounds of reason, legality and the terms of their rental agreement. Whether renting an apartment or owning a house, everyone wants to feel like the king or queen of their respective [...]