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Quote by: brien  It's all about choice. However, I am not sure about legally keeping people out of a building where units are offered to the general public for rent. Since smoking is not against the law, I am not sure about the legality of discriminating against a smoker, if they meet all other requirements financially, and want to rent a unit in the building. |
I doubt they can discriminate against someone renting onlly because they are a smoker. One can be a smoker and never smoke inside a building. Seems to me they want to be able to set a no smoking rule, make sure smokers know the rule, and be able to evict them if they violate it while inside the building. Furthermore, they want to be able to use the deposit money to clean up the residue before putting the unit up for rent. I have no problem with that. If there is a market niche for that, let them.
But would it be okay if a large corporate renter bought out the competition in town and imposed their rules on every unit and smokers were unable to rent anywhere and smoke inside? Well even in that situation, the market can correct the situation because that would be a huge niche to fill, so as the corp is buying out the other companies, they are selling at higher and higher levels because their niche is becoming rare. And then they can turn around and develop more units to sell to that niche!
So as long as the city/state/nation doesn't impose the rules and as long as there are smokers with money who want to smoke inside, there will be units for them.