Smoke permeates and damages ceilings, carpets, walls, and floor coverings.

There's 25 years of nicotine all over the walls and ceiling.

Is it legal to require nicotine tests in the lease?

Also remember as you wash walls that all that water with nicotine will be dripping down the walls and onto your floors as well as whatwill drip or splash on you.

I actually do KNOW how the fire started (the owner was smoking in an upstairs bedroom) so I BELIEVE the damage is fairly minimal (and contained) but someone I know said to me "oh, there's smoke damage, forget about it, the smoke permeates EVERYTHING and the only way to get rid of the smell is to gut the entire house (which is why I was worried).CK Hwang - that you for validated what I was thinking.  

We bought a duplex for $44K at the bottom of the market and it was quite a disaster with sloping floors and enough nicotine on the walls to give you cancer!  

Things like the bath sink have nicotine stains but the vanity itself is ok.

What kind of paint would solve the smoke and nicotine smell?

so first .. we have this shooting in AZ which has nothing to do with political rhetoric, suddenly the entire media is telling everyone to tone it down, etc. etc. it's all the place over - lets use softer language , blah , blah blah.. .. and now i come to my favorite real estate web site and find that the mentality has permeated ever deeper.

Either the flavoring or nicotine made me sick.