What’s That Smell? Dealing with Secondhand Smoke in Community Associations

More and more often community associations are caught in the middle of disputes between individual homeowners regarding the drifting of cigarette smoke from one unit to another. On one side is the complaining homeowner, who claims that the cigarette smoke is intolerable and cites to the “nuisance” provision within the association’s governing documents.   Read more………

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