We just moved into a new apartment complex in Wisconsin.  There isn't anything in our lease or any other documents we have signed about not smoking.  We only smoke on our 2nd floor patio.

We received this notice five days after moving in to our apartment:

On July 5th, 2010 Wisconsin's Statewide Smoke-Free Air Law went into effect.  The requires all common areas of multi-unit residential areas to be smoke free and also any reasonable distance from this shared area must remain smoke free.

For example, if you are smoking inside your garage without proper ventilation the odor/smoke will work its way through the building.  You may also be smoking inside your closed apartment, and this would enter the shared hall area (which must remain smoke free).  Additionally, smoking on your patio/balcony/outside the building area could be causing smoke to enter another resident's home through open windows or patio doors.

At this point we must ask that you please re-evalulate where you choosing to smoke on the property and adgere to the state law.  Smoking on your patio area is not allowed because it is not a reasonable distance from the other nearby patio areas.

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We are upset because had they told us or advertised this as a non-smoking apartment we would have never signed the lease.  We told them during signing that we didn't smoke inside and only smoked outside on our patio; they were okay with this and there was nothing in the lease against smoking.  

We can see people smoking on their patio/balcony from our apartment.  

We know smoking is bad, so is drinking, pollution, drug cartels, terrorism, oil spills, world hunger, slavery, heroin, prescription pain killers, wars, climate change, etc.  Also the sky is the blue by the way.  

We've tried quitting before, intend to try again, but being forced to by landlords that didn't advertise the complex as non-smoking is not how we plan on quitting at this current moment in time.
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The landlord expects us to re-evaluate the
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We just moved into a new apartment complex in Wisconsin.  There isn't anything in our lease or any other documents we have signed about not smoking.  We only smoke on our 2nd floor patio.

We received this notice five days after moving in to our apartment:

On July 5th, 2010 Wisconsin's Statewide Smoke-Free Air Law went into effect.  The requires all common areas of multi-unit residential areas to be smoke free and also any reasonable distance from this shared area must remain smoke free.

For example, if you are smoking inside your garage without proper ventilation the odor/smoke will work its way through the building.  You may also be smoking inside your closed apartment, and this would enter the shared hall area (which must remain smoke free).  Additionally, smoking on your patio/balcony/outside the building area could be causing smoke to enter another resident's home through open windows or patio doors.

At this point we must ask that you please re-evalulate where you choosing to smoke on the property and adgere to the state law.  Smoking on your patio area is not allowed because it is not a reasonable distance from the other nearby patio areas.

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We are upset because had they told us or advertised this as a non-smoking apartment we would have never signed the lease.  We told them during signing that we didn't smoke inside and only smoked outside on our patio; they were okay with this and there was nothing in the lease against smoking.  

We can see people smoking on their patio/balcony from our apartment.  

We know smoking is bad, so is drinking, pollution, drug cartels, terrorism, oil spills, world hunger, slavery, heroin, prescription pain killers, wars, climate change, etc.  Also the sky is the blue by the way.  

We've tried quitting before, intend to try again, but being forced to by landlords that didn't advertise the complex as non-smoking is not how we plan on quitting at this current moment in time.
user
Landlord sent notice "requiring us to re-evaluate
assistant