How can I get two new neighbors to stop smoking on their patio and wafting smoke into my apartment?
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at
9:27 pm
I have two new neighbors who recently moved into the apartment below me. Our patios are stacked on top of each other. I have no problem with them actually smoking, but when they smoke outside, it drifts up through my patio and into my open window. THey keep their patio door shut to keep smoke from getting into their house, yet it all comes into mine. They are nice people, and I don’t want to start some sort of feud. How do I approach them about not smoking outside . . . I mean its outside?
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move or start smoken
Ummm.. close the window? Maybe?
Talk to the management and maybe get a different apartment.
Good luck with that! I don’t see how you are going to approach that subject, because, like you said, it’s outside!
just tell them ur doctor said u cant smell smoke its bad for ur health. that sounds nice enough. they wont be offended since its a health issue
NOTHINGS BETTER THAN JUST TELLING BEING TRUTHFULL
that will start a feud..i’m a smoker..outside is one of the only places we have left…you can’t take that away.
All you can do is knock on thier door and ask them if they can smoke out in front of thier apartment because you don’t care for the smok wafting into your apartment. The worst they can say is no and you would be no worse off then you are now.
Get a dog. Have it pee off the balcony. When they say something to you about it, and they will, apologize profusely, and say you’d clean up after your dog immediately, but you are allergic to smoke. Repeat as needed.
buy a fan
God Bless
Ask. Nicely!! Also set the floor fan to blow the smoke away from your patio.Peace.
close the window
Well , if they are nice , I guess you could mention it. Maybe they can smoke in a different spot . The same thing happens with my neighbors but they are inconsiderate in MANY ways so I put my window fan on exhaust instead of fresh air and spray lots of Glade into it.Good Luck!
If they are nice people then just ask them nicely, they shouldn’t have a problem with it. If they do, just dump a bucket of water on them
Mind your own business! Do they bitch when you flush your toilet in the middle of the night?
The only thing you can do is keep your windows closed you can’t stop them from smoking on their patio lol
Tell them you will stop driving your car and putting toxic smoke in their air. After all fair is fair.
wow that’s a hard spot cause you don’t want to start a fight but you do need to stick up for your rights. so id go to the apartment first and tell them that your getting their smoke coming into your apartment and you feel as if you shouldn’t have to close your windows because of them but that something needs to be done about this. going to the apartment mangers first will get you the respect from them for coming to them before starting a feud with the neighbors. besides its easier on you if the apartment complex takes care of it for you. if that doesn’t work then id talk to the people below.
Legally I don’t think you can.And they must be going on the balcony for a reason( baby,toddler.elder).Only thing you can do is close your door.Or get a single family home.What fun that should be when your neighbor’s dog drops one in your yard.I’m just saying,you may have to learn to live with it.
Unfortunately, there is no "easy way" of doing this!
The best thing is to approach them and make freinds with them and then, explain to them that the smoke is coming into your apartment, and distracting you and making you cough! Or, explain that you have guests that have asthma and that your smoking is bothering them and you! (Though, I doubt that it will work, even if they are reasonable people, because they think slow suicide is ok! But, personally, when some one takes that up, I think they should get a note signed from everyone they know,friends and family that it wont bother them to see them on lung machines and breathing tubes, when they get older, as thier lungs deterriorate and thier love ones and family have to witness them dying like this!!!).
They will think you are trying to "infringe" on thier rights to smoke..(commit slow suicide in my opinion).
If they are Christians, remind them that they are destroying GOD’s Temple! You are to do nothing to desecrate the living temple of the LORD!
If not, then direct a fan towards them, and when you smell the smoke, TURN IT ON!!
This will be the biggest "hint", if they refuse to do anything about thier smoking.
Obviously second hand smoke DOES KILL, and the proof is in! I dont even let my kids go around anyone that smokes, because of that! And, with my asthma, its even more terrible to have to suffer through.
I wish you well..
Jesse
Close the window, buy a fan, move apartments, or start saving for a down payment on your own slice of heaven so this doesn’t happen to you again. If it’s not one thing, it will be another. This is apartment living, like it or not.
You can not do anything about it.That’s their life as long as they are paying for the rent and by the way, they are smoking outside and that’s the best way…. Close the window or if you want put two cotton balls inside your nose and that’s really WORKS
You sound just like my neighbor….Only she complains if someone is smoking inside my apartment. Says the smoke comes up in her bathroom. yeah right. We don’t smoke……