From my understanding you are required to accepted it, however verify your local laws. the only way around this is if they don't fit your screening criteria. so if across the board you don't accept smokers or anything else along those lines that are not a protected class you can deny the tenant.

Lets weed out the real dead beats and drug test them when they rush to the ER, or to get their unemployment check, ETC.I am all for helping the mother that has been abandoned by a dead beat with kids; so long as I don't have to support her cigarettes, booze, or other sins against humanity.

Easiest check is pour some Gatorade into the tank when you’re doing spring or fall smoker alarm pokes. 15 min later if there’s colour in the bowl you need a flapper.

The tenants who live in the unit next to mine complained of an odor that smells like stale cigarette smoke in their apartment.

I also look inside their cars to see if they are messy or smoke cigarettes.

You start with the people eating, or in the case of the gateway drug you start with pot smokers, in this case you start with college graduates.

There was one Asian male in just 8 people in the study and this one Asian male was a smoker.

Turned out one of our tenants had burned their apartment down- total loss of property, was fortunate in that it was largely contained to one apartment(cigarette in the kitchen garbage can, then out to dinner, those fools.)

Mind you, her flat roof caving in literally, and her units smelled like money, cigarettes and animals!

Like the cigarette?