Non-smoking Apartments in St. Louis

October 23, 2009 12:42 PM

Can you recommend a non-smoking apartment in St. Louis or St. Louis County? The closer to Clayton, the better.

We currently live in the Dorchester. We were told when we signed the lease that smoking was allowed on the balconies but not in the units. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case, and smoke now comes in through the vents on a regular basis.

Given our past experience, we need a place that has a firm non-smoking clause in the lease contract. Community norms and leasing office promises are insufficient.

posted by jedicus to home & garden (2 comments total)

You probably won't get any answers to this question because it's pretty much impossible to enforce no smoking clauses in residential leases, and landlords don't want to be in the business of playing police officer.

That said, you might simply want to look for apartments that don't have ventilation systems that are shared with neighboring apartments. My guess is that this kind of apartment would tend to be older construction rather than newer.
posted by dfriedman at 7:29 PM on October 23

Well, we did find a couple but they were out of our price range. I think we're probably going to either cover the vents or wire up fans to force air outward to prevent anything from coming in.
posted by jedicus at 9:29 AM on October 27