The Smell of Pot Threatens an Apartment Sale

Good God! This guy is a lawyer?! Giving out such poor advice??!!! Are you kidding?! "Someone could say you mislead them"...that someone have PROOF?!!!...You could say you've had allergies all your life & can't even smell your morning coffee, let alone what someone is smoking in their apartment. The LAST thing you want to do when selling is get a war started with your neighbors. Ever hear of buyer beware? And so what? big deal smoking pot, who cares? It smells better than cigarettes, pipes & cigars & you can't tell people what to do in their own home. If you're really selling an apartment in downtown someplace, most likely it will be to young folks with money who most likely smoke pot themselves sometimes & again, that will be their business what they do inside their place. I say stop being so uptight & just worry about pricing the apartment correctly & making it irresistible to anyone viewing it, & don't start a war with anyone, get out quietly & go enjoy your new life elsewhere!

Lock boxes are prohibited in many co-ops. & condos for the simple reason that they put everyone living on the premises in danger. They are easy to break into & once the keys are in the wrong hands, not only is the apartment being sold in danger of having everything in it including appliances stolen, other units can be broken into as well. A dedicated agent would do their job the right way, not the lazy way, get the listing & let another agent do all the work.

An alert condo management board would have put an end to any smell of marijuana a long time ago. What are people paying for with their maintenance monies?

not only would i not be offended at the odor of marijuana wafting from an apartment next door, i would hope to be able to meet that young man and establish some kind…any kind of mentorship. I would pressure the hysterical real estate agent for an introduction.

now, please supply the address.

Sorry, rat the pothead out to his folks. If they live in a pricey co-op the kid probably is used to doing whatever he wants anyway; a threat to call the cops and potentially sidetrack Junior's guaranteed entry to a legacy Ivy by a wee bit may work.

Marijuana has a "scent"? That is far too kind for what we experience these days, often right down on the street of any city. Today's marijuana has an odor and it's the odor of skunk. It's a far cry from the pot of some 40 years ago when it was called "grass" and had the true *scent* of ... grass.

Is LW#1 sure it's the teenage son? Not to rat anyone out myself, but I may have heard of *some* parents and even grandparents who are unrepentant pot smokers as well. Hypothetically, of course.

Only in NYC could you get an argument about hiding a neighbor smoking pot. Too many lawyers.

Second hand pot smoke is more than a nuisance. It subjects non participants to not only any second hand effect but has the potential to affect drug test results. You or a buyer should not be subject to this

One of the advantages of co-ops over condos is the ability to have enforceable house rules. Many co-ops have prohibitions against odors that waft out of a unit. I would check whatever rules your building has.

Co-ops often have provisions for succession of apartment ownership if the stockholder is institutionalized. This is usually limited to household members in residence prior to the departure of the stockholder. However, the situation described is more akin to subletting.

Lockboxes are often attached to doorknobs that can be easily removed with a screwdriver. The assumption is that the box is too hard to break open to tempt its theft. Whether this is true, I cannot say. Obviously, anyone could remove it and replace the doorknob if they wished.

For the co-op, if the LW can't even 'attempt entry' how will they even be able to enter the apartment to sell it eventually? Seems like a catch-22.