7842I: Lazy tenants!

While you were there drinking alchohol and chasing women with your money the landlords toiled and sweated under the sun.

Those landlords bought those lands with their cash, paid "Ogbanecheagu" they built their own roads to the plots, built fence and built the house with millions of naira. They then bought electric poles, provided light for you, sank well or borehole and all these while the government did not help the landlords.

Why then do you think the government should now wake up and dictate to the landlords on how much they should collect from the tenants?

ZUBY77:

Seun, where is that 'dislike' button ?

Enugu houses are very expensive for real. The worst is that they dont have much industries in the state to pay for it. My younger sister collects over 100k every semester for a one room apartment. It is too much for a student.

7842I:

Your sister is chopping your money o! There is nowhere they charge N100k for a semester, its for a year for a self contained room.

You cannot say something is expensive till you factor in the cost of production, can you?

ZUBY77:

You are right about the semester thing, it is for one year. But since when did the cost of production in Enugu become higher than other SE states?

Isn't cement, rods, water, sand etc almost all the same all over the east?

7842I:

It is a demand fuelled inflation on the houses, there is no vacancy so every new one is hotly contested, and the landlords are not building many more houses. This may continue for a very long time.

ZUBY77:

that sounds like a huge opportunity for estate investors

ikeyman00: ^^^this smell fishy

u sound like a landlord on rampage to exploit the masses

if u keep misbehaving then there is need for the state government to step in

Afam4eva: It depends on the part of Enugu that you want a house. Cut your coat according to your size.

why is it that some people result to cheap blackmail in situations like this. So, landlords should decrease house rent because some people want to relocate from the north to Enugu? These same people are the ones that will built mansions in other parts of the country and when they're asked to pay a measly amount for house rent in their own home town, they result to blackmail. Why not go back to the north and live with bokoharam. Nonsense.

Afam4eva: It depends on the part of Enugu that you want a house. Cut your coat according to your size.

why is it that some people result to cheap blackmail in situations like this. So, landlords should decrease house rent because some people want to relocate from the north to Enugu? These same people are the ones that will build mansions in other parts of the country and when they're asked to pay a measly amount for house rent in their own home town, they result to blackmail. Why not go back to the north and live with bokoharam. Nonsense.

Activity77:

Afam do u stay in enugu,wen was d last tym u enterd enugu.i grew up in enugu so i no wats hapunin dia.like wer am living,achara layout 2 b precise.d least price u can get is 15000 on an old building.hw do u justify dat.even my landlord is telling me dat he wil stil increase d rent by nxtyr..am not blackmailing anybody so am speaking from a tenant point of view.

Dejohnbull: Lie lie liars, scaring ppl away frm Enugu, shm.

Activity77:

Am not scaring people away from enugu,hw can i do dat wen i wnt our people to cum back nd doz already in enugu to have minimal house rent

Afam4eva: It depends on the part of Enugu that you want a house. Cut your coat according to your size.

why is it that some people result to cheap blackmail in situations like this. So, landlords should decrease house rent because some people want to relocate from the north to Enugu? These same people are the ones that will build mansions in other parts of the country and when they're asked to pay a measly amount for house rent in their own home town, they result to blackmail. Why not go back to the north and live with bokoharam. Nonsense.

Afam4eva:
Isn't Achara layout also a high brow area? Btw, i'm not supporting the unnecessary hike in house rent, my anger is that these people are trying to blackmail landlords to give them special treatment because they relocated from the north. If they cannot afford the highbrow areas, there are other low cost places that they could go to.

Afam4eva:
Isn't Achara layout also a high brow area? Btw, i'm not supporting the unnecessary hike in house rent, my anger is that these people are trying to blackmail landlords to give them special treatment because they relocated from the north. If they cannot afford the highbrow areas, there are other low cost places that they could go to.

Activity77:

there is nutin like special treatment cos all of us are one(igbos).most of them coming down here are nt financially buoyant...
Can u help push it to front page so we can have more views concerning this pls.

Chima_Adeoye:

We often ask, why can't Igbo in the north come home? This answers part of the question.The cost of living is higher in the SE than north.
The government must re-double its effort at Mass housing and provide more low cost estates without necessarily nurturing ghettos. Enugu must have new low cost housing layouts established around its satellite towns as Emene,9th Mile and towards Ituku.Land in these areas is still relatively cheap and the cost for construction of a one or two bedroom bungalow should not be much higher than the national average. Somehow,more decent houses must be provided for these returning Igbos and indeed other Nigerians leaving the north, especially from the middle belt tribes such as Igala,Idoma,Tiv etc who wish to live a decent life in the east.

Chima_Adeoye:

We often ask, why can't Igbo in the north come home? This answers part of the question.The cost of living is higher in the SE than north.
The government must re-double its effort at Mass housing and provide more low cost estates without necessarily nurturing ghettos. Enugu must have new low cost housing layouts established around its satellite towns as Emene,9th Mile and towards Ituku.Land in these areas is still relatively cheap and the cost for construction of a one or two bedroom bungalow should not be much higher than the national average. Somehow,more decent houses must be provided for these returning Igbos and indeed other Nigerians leaving the north, especially from the middle belt tribes such as Igala,Idoma,Tiv etc who wish to live a decent life in the east.

HAH: The land mass of Igbo land is too small to contain the igbos, I wonder how they will live when their biafra dream actualizes.

That is how one igbo welder ran away from maiduguri cos of BH only for him to return back maiduguri after a month and confessed that he rather dies in maiduguri than the treatment he received back home, he said he almost died of hunger and homelessness.

Biko Ndigbo be your brothers keeper and quit worshiping money.

7842I:

Can you imagine this one? Provide cheap houses for returnees? What of those suffering in Igboland since. They can still get lands in Akpakume Nze for 60k and live in the rural area than try to force landlords in Independent layout to rent to them on lands that cost 40 million naira to buy!

Activity77:

Afam do u stay in enugu,wen was d last tym u enterd enugu.i grew up in enugu so i no wats hapunin dia.like wer am living,achara layout 2 b precise.d least price u can get is 15000 on an old building.hw do u justify dat.even my landlord is telling me dat he wil stil increase d rent by nxtyr..am not blackmailing anybody so am speaking from a tenant point of view.

Afam4eva:
I agree with you. There are low cost housing in Enugu though not sufficient for the implosion that's been experienced at the moment. So, new low cost housing estates should be developed in the outskirts of Enugu.