dirtydog said:Why?Because you have no respect for the landlord and you don't mind the risk of losing your deposit?
I have never had a deposit back. The first 2 houses I rented I actually decorated and had the carpets professionally cleaned!.. Alas no deposits.
And choosing to break petty rules has nothing whatsoever to do with lack of respect.. I have always smoked in my rented propertys, but that doesn't mean that I haven't treated the houses with great respect (in-fact, decorated and invested my own money in them!). There are degrees of rule breaking, and smoking in a house in which you have been asked not to by the landlord is in my opinion (and experience of student households) not a serious thing at all. In-fact, I think it's damned cheeky of the landlord to insist on it (and yes, I understand that a smoker may, if particular fuss is shown, entail certain decorative duties at the end of each tenancy, but quite frankly in the majority of student dwellings that's only a good thing), and furthermore, in reality the landlord never actually expects this to be upheld (again in my own experience. My own landlords have smoked inside my rented propertys, my father also lets his propertys as no-smoking and has no real issue with tenants smoking). I certainly wouldn't pay £300 a month to stand outside and smoke! (again I remind you that I don't actually smoke anymore). I can't really win this argument, because obviously if you have been informed of a no smoking policy by the landlord before moving into the property then you are instantly in the wrong. I'm merely pointing out that everyone does it. In countless student houses across the land, right now as I type, there are people smoking regardless, posters being cellotaped to walls and party goers waking up with sore heads, talking about the guy who wouldn't stop whinging about the smell of cigarette smoke. Again though I have no idea what the score is with the OP, so I'm just giving an alternative viewpoint.
