Dear colleagues,

I need your advice on how to legally resolve issues on my property.

* i have a landed property with 14 flats ( comprises of 2 bedroom apartment and room/parlour self contain)

* The agents initially responsible collected money from the tenants and varnish, so i directed that henceforth no tenant should be to agent/lawyer.
that they should all be paying to my account.

* i engage a lawyer to assist in ejecting those that are owing and refuse to pay, 2 tenants last payment was in February 2013, 1 paid last in june 2013.
* i directed the lawyer to issue those tenants in debt a quit notice of 3 months which has since expired, the lawyer said we should issue another 1 month quit notice which has also expired. The lawyer collected money for all the letter he wrote ( we wrote to five tenant twice and he collected 10k per letter twice).

* I asked him what next when they refuse to move out, he said he need to file a case in court and i need to pay before he can do that.
But i opt to know what the cost of filing, and the entire court case will be he said he cannot qoute a price now.
My fear is that the lawyer too is ripping me off, so i told him am not interested in the court case yet.

Let me also mention that, i paid the lawyer hiring fee, power of attorney fee and agreement fee before he accept the job.

now, my question are?

1. i want to eject the tenants that are owing, how long will a court case take?
2. What is likely cost i will pay a lawyer to handle these case?

many thanks as you help a brother.

[quote author=NaijaOptimist post=29102759]Dear colleagues,

I need your advice on how to legally resolve issues on my property.

* i have a landed property with 14 flats ( comprises of 2 bedroom apartment and room/parlour self contain)

* The agents initially responsible collected money from the tenants and varnish, so i directed that henceforth no tenant should be to agent/lawyer.
that they should all be paying to my account.

* i engage a lawyer to assist in ejecting those that are owing and ref

where is the property situated

Welcome to Nigeria.

[quote author=sam13 post=29117185][/quote]
lusada area of ogun state.

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