@Taylor Holden, smells like opportunity to me!

As the others here mentioned before, it's critical to check with the local planning commission and city/county governing bodies.  

The house was well overpriced and smelled like cat pee.

The house was well overpriced and smelled like cat pee.

It will probably take me that long to mitigate the cigarette smell regardless.

But the weird thing is no body knows who pays taxes, even on record the seller said; "yeah I was confused about that for the past 10-15 years"

They have never smelled of cigarettes when I've spoken to them, and that smell tends to linger.

I guess they could do an air sample, but if it's bad enough you can smell it in a room with some visual evidence.  

This is typically the case here in the Bay Area, too.Typing Alexandria Louisiana in the body of a post so that locals to OP, hopefully, can chime in and tell us how it is in LA.

As soon as I and renewed the lease the tenant wrote me this long message with all these thing wrong, including drain smells bad(she’s been putting bleach down the drain to kill the odor, the lights in the kitchen and bedroom are flickering(this ones easily fixable) & the bathroom floor is in-caving because of water damage(she suggested a new shower door).