Smells like a $100,000 fine to me. :)Why not just stay with the initial purchase and take care of her risk adverse nature, providing her guarantees, she probably wants a sweater deal to accept her perceived risk.

The basement did not have a musty or mildew smell.  

If you don't do it right, you smell fire during periods of high humidity.

Once your in it for a while you can smell whats going on just about anywhere you go locally.  

I was looking for easy and cheaper.Paul: I googled allure and it seems there a lot of issues with smell and the seams.

Sorry to hear this.I had similar issues in the past and there is a saying if you get a stick and start poking a piece of s...It will only smell more lollolI would pay him out and get on with making more money on future deals.Your post proves that business is easy, its the people that make it difficult.Thanks for reading and have a great day.

Intresting article but it dosn't meet the smell test.

Painting over it won't be doing an effective enough job at removing the smell.. baseboards defintely got to go too...take a look at this post complete with pictures on what this guy did to remove cat pee smell....http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/223/topics/133...

I think battling them for the late fee this time would do more damage than the $45 is worth.It's great that you're standing firm on collecting a late fee but in some cases that aren't clear best to just let it go and make a note to include a remedy in your next lease.

If so, how labor intensive is it to remove the smell and nicotine from the house (i.e. walls, air ducts etc), that is, assuming it's possible?