u/leezyramirez

I live in a four plex managed by a rental property management company. All four units are lined up next to each other meaning we share a wall (those in the middle share two), and all our front doors are like 10 ft from each other. (Except the two in the middle who are right next to each other) looks like this: 1........2..3.........4

My neighbor in unit 1 (all the way to the edge) sits right outside his front door on the step, and chain smokes cigarettes when he is home. He has a large shrub at the front of his unit combined with the little roof over our doors makes it so the cigarette smoke tunnels across all our front doors and into the carport area (i can smell the cigarettes as soon as i step out of my car, and have to walk against this line of smoke to walk to my door). I live in the third unit which means his front door is only about 10 ft away.

Here is my big issue: my house gets really warm, and the air gets stale. I need to open the one window at the back of the house, and one window in front of my house and the front door (with screen door closed) to keep fresh air in my house to cool it down. I only have a wall AC unit that I cant afford to have turned on all the time. I need to be able to open my windows during cool nights and breezy days. Especially because it gets to be over 100° in my city, so i need to take advantage of any cool/windy temperatures. Also, I have a dog. We both deserve fresh air.

Except, while sitting on the couch, or cooking dinner, laying in bed, even sitting in the bathroom (its a small, one bed apt), I will start smelling cigarette smoke. I then have to close all the windows and door (my dog likes to lay by the front door and look outside so poor guy has to move) and trap the cigarette smoke inside with us. So I use air freshener. Then, the house gets hot again. So I go open the door and windows. Sometimes the cigarette smell has gone away, sometimes it hasnt. But it will always start smelling like cigarettes again because this guy smokes every hour. LITERALLY. So there i have to do the same routine of closing up my house, spraying air freshener. every hour.

I have fans on, but that just moves around stale air. And cant afford to have AC on to cool us down. Also, my dog will go crazy, I think its mentally stimulating for him to look outside, so i would like to have the door open for him .

My issue is I have told him about this and he doesn't care, says I need to deal with it because we live in the "hood". Ive talked to the property management many times, they just send general emails reminding everyone not to smoke inside. When I clarify they smoke at their front door, they said they cannot do anything because technically its "outside" and they cannot prohibit smoking outside, but im confused because I thought they can prohibit smoking on the property as a whole, since theyre apartments? Please help, it cant be healthy to live like this. I got home from work today, and my whole living room smelled like cigarettes even though the window was cracked only a tiny bit (so my dog could have fresh air)

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