After viewing House Hunting Experiences, House Renovation Projects and other Reality Programs related to Housing on Style Network and
HGTV, i deemed it fit upon myself to take this experience down to
Lagos.
I decided to start saving
30% of my Salary to buy my dream property which is a 5-bedroom duplex.
I finally got upto 25 million which i put into use in pursuing my
dreams. I never knew i was indirectly welcoming Heavy Stress into my life.
The beginning of my troubles was when i contacted a Real Estate Agent on securing the property, a deal was made and i paid some specified amount of money into his account.
The guy who claimed to be an expert was finally a quark. The questions he puts up to me were so suspicious, that when i started
investigating, i found out that he had earlier sold the property to
three other people . He had given them fake documents in exchange for their money.
When everything was now sorted out, after a number of times in court, and i was now granted the legal owner of the property cox i got the original papers to it. It was now time for me to start the renovation process.
Then came the Omo Onile ( sons of the soil) problem. They kept
extorting money from me and from people that came to work for me for activities like Painting, Interlocking, tiling and few other
activities. It was my Lawyer and my Uncle who is in the Nigerian Army, that helped intervene on my behalf.
Now, I’ve been living in the building for seven years, but when i remember the stress i went through when securing the property, i just shake my hair and sigh.
My Experience on that, made me set up 10 commandments for anyone about to undergo the House Hunting Process.
RULE 1- Thou Shalt have a Budget.
RULE 2- Thou Shalt not buy a Land/Property without demanding for the
Documents that the Owner(s) Possess.
RULE 3- Thou Shalt Carry Out a Proper Land/Property Verification Search.
RULE 4- Thou Shalt always Involve Professionals in Land/Property
Matters before you buy a land/Property.
RULE 5- Thou Shalt not buy a Land/Property via the Internet or through Newspapers without Viewing the land/Property physically.
RULE 6- Thou Shalt not buy a land that smells of trouble.
RULE 7- Thou Shalt not pay for any Landed Transaction in Cash.
RULE 8- Thou Shalt not ever listen to a land seller opinions about the
title of land they possess without you verifying it.
RULE 9- Thou Shalt put all their Landed Transaction Details in Writing.
RULE 10- Thou Shalt take possession of the land you bought immediately.
I express my profound gratitude to the initiators and brains behind
the Online Property and Real Estate marketplace springing up in Lagos, a place which is on the verge of having its own silicon valley. I also wanna say a big thank you to the Lagos
State Government for their Tenancy Law.
I see this various leverage as a tool that will help alleviate the stress involved in house hunting for both the prospective tenants, estate agents and the Landlords.
– Tim Chukwunwogor
http://starttells.com/2015/09/17/my-personal-experience-of-house-hunting-in-lagos-state/

Cc Lalasticlala

Are you hunting for rats? are you from Benue?
There is lasa fever!
sorry, I didn't read your testimony yet, how can I delete my typos and rewrite??

Thanks for those rules. These mayn't be enough in some cases as omonile's has to be duly informed and they must be settled too. I did something when I bought a land recently, the idea was suggested by my wife actually. An elderly woman who shud be in her late 70's sold her land to me. We paid for the land in cash but we got the service of a good photographer who made comprehensive pictorial and video coverage documentation when mama was thumb printing (illiterate) and each of the children signing. the site was covered with the neighborhood and the old woman even prayed for the new owner and spent a lengthy period to course any of her generation born or unborn who tried to disturb me on the land in future as she handed the document to me before being driven away by the children. She warned the children not to visit the site again for anything. Money is a stupid intoxicator, mama almost speak in tongue when she sight 800k being paid in cash for a she bought at 75 naira 'some years ago' .

House hunting in Abuja, like elsewhere in Nigeria, can be tough. But if you follow a few basic steps life becomes easier.

The important things to consider are: budget, location, property specifications and finding the right agent.

More here:

https://www.nigeriapropertyforum.com/t/house-hunting-in-abuja-nigeria-things-to-consider/357

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