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Live totals for every odor removal poll on this site. A poll with only a few votes tells you very little, so treat these numbers as conversation starters and compare them with the sourced figures further down.
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An opinion poll on this page records what visitors picked from a short list of options. It is fast, informal, and not checked. Nobody checks whether the person answering really had a smoke-damaged house or just found the question interesting. That does not make the results worthless. But it does mean the numbers describe a group of readers who chose to answer, not all homes with odor problems. Look at polls for general direction and for the range of experiences people report. Expect the mix to shift as more people answer.
The sourced numbers elsewhere on this site come from agencies, industry groups, or published studies. Each one is tied to a source you can check. Those numbers were gathered with a set method from a set group of people. That is why they can support a decision in a way a poll cannot. When the two seem to disagree, it is usually because they measure different things. A poll shows what readers believe or remember. A sourced number shows what a researcher measured. Keep them in separate columns in your mind and you will read both correctly.
Visitors to this page are not a random sample of everyone who deals with odor removal. People arrive here because they are planning, worried or curious, so the mix of answers can lean toward whoever was searching that week. Watch the vote count under each poll before you draw a conclusion, and compare what people think with the sourced figures below.
NAR's Animal House report found 71% of households include pets and 16% of home buyers say pets influence their choice of neighborhood.
Read with care: The infographic does not report a percentage specifically about pet odor affecting sales.
Source: National Association of Realtors (2020)US households and home buyers, NAR member and consumer surveys
The US Fire Administration estimates 343,000 residential building fires in 2024, with cooking the leading cause at 46.7% of incidents.
Read with care: Counts reported fires, not the number of homes needing smoke odor treatment, and excludes unreported small fires.
Source: US Fire Administration (FEMA) (2024)US residential buildings, 2024 national estimate
A Realtor.com and HarrisX survey of 3,001 US adults found 77% of homeowners have pets and 66% of pet-owning buyers had passed on an otherwise perfect home over pet incompatibility.
Read with care: Online panel survey commissioned by a real estate portal; does not measure pet odor specifically.
Source: Realtor.com / HarrisX (2022)US adults surveyed August 9-12, 2022, margin of error 1.8 points
These figures are public research and agency data, not this network's own job records. Keep each number with its population, year and limits; none of them predicts cost, timing or outcome at a specific property.
No. Each vote is one choice from the listed options. It is sent to this site's server and added to the running totals. But nobody checks whether the voter really dealt with urine, smoke, or any other smell. The site does not collect names or contact details. Read the percentages as a snapshot of how visitors here answered, not as a survey of all homes with odor problems.
Totals update as new votes come in, and the people visiting can change through the year. Readers with musty odors in humid months, or smoke smells during heating season, may show up at different times. That can tilt a poll for a while. Polls with few votes swing more than ones with many. A change shows who answered lately, not a change in how odor removal works.
The polls are built for one quick answer per poll. Your browser remembers the choice you made, so there is no edit button. If a smell you thought was gone comes back, go back to the articles on finding the source and treating it again, not the poll. The results are most useful as a broad set of first reactions from many visitors.
No. Voting does not ask for your name or contact information. Results are shown only as combined totals. Nothing in the results shows how any one person answered. If you send a contact or quote request somewhere else on the site, that is a different form. It is handled for that purpose only and is not linked to your poll answers.
Use them to see how others weighed similar trade-offs and to come up with questions for a provider, landlord, or insurer. If many readers say a smell came back after a machine-only treatment, ask a provider how its plan avoids that. Do not treat a majority answer as advice for your building. An inspection of your real materials and moisture counts for more than any poll.
No. A poll cannot find the source of an odor. It cannot predict whether ozone, sealing, or removal will work. It cannot estimate a price or say whether insurance will pay. It also cannot tell whether the people answering had a case anything like yours, or whether a smell is a health risk. For those questions, use the articles and tools here. And rely on a qualified provider who has inspected the space in person.
Many odor choices involve real trade-offs between cost, time, health, and what you must tell others. Fair-minded people land in different places. A close split often means the right choice depends on details, such as the source, the building, and who lives there. That is useful to know. It suggests the question deserves a careful talk with a provider, not a quick rule of thumb.
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