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I had the same situation when I purchased a "real good deal" here in the Villages. Most of the smell in the empty house was one single carpet in the living room that had not been thrown away. Before we moved in, I threw the carpet out, had a cleaning service come in and clean EVERYTHING and then set about painting everything in the house, including the garage. I even had the cement floor of the garage cleaned and painted. No problem with smell now. Opening the windows for some fresh air from time to time helps also. I also had a guy with a big machine come in and clean the laminate floors that seemed to have an accumulation of some sort.