Live Online Q&A for 8/5/2015 Webinar Forum

We have a rent-controlled jurisdiction in San Francisco, which has presented a challenge for going smoke-free and has also created a bit of a divide for the tenant-rights community (worry that landlords will use this as a basis to evict in a hot housing market and to get rid of their rent-controlled tenants). If landlords were to insert a new provision in the leases about smoke-free units, that would be considered a reduction in services without an attendant decrease in rent-- which is not allowed.

Have you been able to lower your property insurance rates for the smoke-free properties, since they are now nonsmoking? If so, can you share which company is providing it?

How does one verify non-smoking inside the unit if occupants do not open up the unit for inspection? Is there a penalty assessed for non-cooperation (like opening up the unit for inspections)? 

What is the biggest obstacle you face in communicating the impact of environmental tobacco smoke?