Enforcing a No-Smoking Policy

It's simply the right thing to do and, from what our buyers have said on our last two projects, they unanimously embrace this feature.

Providing healthy living spaces, increasing fire safety, lowering turnover costs, and ensuring tenants satisfaction is important to us. As a supportive housing provider, offering smoke-free housing helps us accomplish these goals.

Smoke-free housing policies protect residents from harmful tobacco smoke exposure and also support smokers who want to reduce or quit smoking.

I am one of the truly blessed now to be safe in affordable smoke-free housing.

After spending thousands of dollars trying to prevent second-hand smoke from infiltrating units, it became apparent the only and best solution was to make the 90-unit condominium a smoke-free facility. Smoke free makes us more attractive to future residents.

It should be noted though that the process wasn’t easy…neighbours encouraged neighbours and ... clean air prevailed.

Your enforcement plan will likely depend on your tenant(s) and their behaviour, whether or not there is damage to the unit, and whether or not you live in the building too.

If there is evidence of smoking in violation of a no-smoking policy, you can do any of the following:

Speak with the tenant and review the no-smoking policy and their responsibilities
Provide a written letter to the tenant indicating the details of the violation and any discussions you have had with the tenant on the subject
Document all violations and witnesses to the violations
Write a warning letter before serving the tenant an eviction notice
Serve an eviction warning
Conduct regular inspections
Actively address complaints