Ideas?

Now that we have smokers upstairs, too, the parts of the apartment (namely the bedrooms) that were clear last year are--you guessed it!--full of smoke.  Which appears to be bothering Valerie, though Sadie’s still doing her indestructible girl routine.  So.

Anybody have any ideas how I can make a couple hundred grand, fast?  Because there is just no getting away from this sort of problem in multi-family housing ‘round here.  We figured we’d be good this winter because the bedrooms stayed clear, then we got new neighbors, and there’s just nothing much a body can do about that, you know?  And we’re years away from being able to buy, though now that the housing market has cooled we aren’t getting further away everyday anymore, which is nice.

N.B. Anybody who points out that we’re losers for moving into a building that allows smoking isn’t getting a Christmas card this year.  It’s my blog and I’ll vent if I want to.  YOU try finding a decent apartment around here for cheap and when you need it.  Anybody who points out that we’re losers for being over the age of 30 and totally incapable of affording a house might just get that Christmas card delivered in an anatomically improbable way.  Thanks.

1. white vinegar in a saucer may help kill the smell
   and of course blow them out when you can. The trains with deisel smoke have gone away?  If you rent a single family house get a BIG lot.  I’ve got 11-20
   illegals living next to me making this part of our
   street an instant ghetto.

   Posted by  on  11/10  at  04:04 PM  from 

2. Yeah, the train smoke went away at some point.  Not sure what that whole thing was about.

   Posted by Deb  on  11/10  at  04:12 PM  from  cloud 8

3. dude.  We are now over 30 and can’t afford a house either.

   So we suck just as hard, I guess.

   I’d chat with the landlord, and point out that it’s a health hazard and see what they will do for you in terms of caulking and such.  I’ve lived in a ton of apartments and never had an issue with smoke....

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  11/10  at  08:11 PM  from 

4. Good Luck! My upstairs neighbor smokes, but I only smell it in the back hallway, not in my apartment. 
   1) Sounds like the doors aren’t very tight.  See if you can weather strip around the interior doors. (Also, check those interior doors for cracks in the panels, and then caulk them too.)

   2) Are you friendly with the people upstairs?  If you are, maybe you could ask them to help you find and plug the leaks between floors. If that doesn’t work, maybe they’d do you a favor and only smoke in their kitchen, and not their bedroom?

   Posted by  on  11/11  at  01:38 AM  from 
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