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Learn your rights when it comes to neighbors’ wafting smoke TENANTS’ RIGHTS For months, Alex Engel had been haunted by the smell of pot smoke wafting up from the basement unit of the condo building in Edgewood where she and her husband rent a one-bedroom unit. “I’m particularly sensitive to it,” says Engel, 30. “I notice it as soon as I come in the building.” Like many condo buildings, Engel’s property didn’t ban smoking, and she wasn’t sure what recourse she had. “I didn’t really want to be the fuddy-duddy neighbor to say anything about it,” she says. Yet whether you live in a smoking or smoke-free building, you may have rights if you smell smoke in your personal space. Cigarette and other smoke is tough to contain, and a nuisance smell can quickly become a risk to your property and even possibly your health. CONTINUED ON PAGE R2
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