Your Home’s Smell May Impact Its Value
Whether you are a smoker and looking to sell your home, or you bought a new home and it smells like smoke, there are things you can do right away to improve it. Cigarette fumes in a home can be a major turnoff to a new home buyer. You don’t want to miss out on a prospective buyer because your home smells. Cigarette smoke smell can seriously lower the value of your home. The smell is not just a matter of aesthetics, it can exposure a new homeowner, their children, and their pets to unhealthy chemicals, even months after a cigarette has been smoked in the home. Cigarette smoke pollutes air quality and can cause asthma, headaches, nausea, fatigue, and an increased risk for lung cancer, even if you personally have never smoked a day in your life. A strong smell of smoke can quickly clue in potential buyers that this was a home with smokers and could make your home harder to sell. It is possible to get the smoke smell out of a house. While it might seem like a lo...