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Originally Posted by name

i was gone for over a month with the entire place locked up and shut. they moved in as we where headed out the door. so my place has literally been stewing in smoke since then. i guess that's all it took...

apparently there are 3 people in a one bedroom apt all smoking and one of them is a shift worker so there is always somebody smoking. so you can imagine the amount of smoke that is. we tired to talk to them and got the typical "addict" response. denial, then anger...not fun, not fun at all.

i just got done packing away everything i own in plastic bins, literally everything i own was affected in some way. my transformer collection....its pretty much toast now too. whites are yellowed and bright reds have faded to watermelon shades.
its made even worse is there is no by-law or smoke free apartment laws here. so im sol for everything unless i want to take my landlord to court for allowing them to have so many people in a single bedroom apt. we cant even open our windows to escape it since one of them apparently uses the sun room as his smoking room which blows the smoke right into our front windows

my MU collecting is pretty much going to have to halt completely until i can get a new place..sigh, just in time for the new waves too

If the landlord is seriously allowing that, they're idiots. If the smoke is damaging your figures, think about what it's doing to the actual apartment they're smoking in. That apartment is going to be uninhabitable. Or at least only rentable to people that fall for "painting over the smoke stains".

Unfortunately, as you've found out, in this instance your only option is to move. Landlords like that never change or care. They're the ones who eventually wind up with empty apartments $500 over the local prices who can't figure out why nobody will take them.

I'm sorry your figures were ruined. Maybe you can store them at your parent's or a friend's house for a while? I had to start storing my stuff in a giant pile in a legal bookcase when I got cats, because they started playing with them, until I was able to go to Ikea and get some display cases. I was even buying the new figures, and putting them right into the pile, waiting to get a case.