What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?

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wariowei (m)
What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« on: April 19, 2008, 09:04 PM »

Hi Fella,

Is there anything wrong in buying my best friend's property who is in need of money. I can't understand how people feel about this. My friend needs money, he intends selling some of his properties and asked if i need to buy. I paid for some and now people feel i'm inhuman. They feel i don't have a heart.

That i bought my friend's property was bad? Please house what is your view on this matter?
The Sly
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #1 on: April 19, 2008, 09:13 PM »

They would say why can't you help him in his time of need if you both are truly friends instead of buying off his property.

What are u friends for then if u both can't help each other?. .  . .it might also be youthink of how you would feel Wink
mamaput (f)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #2 on: April 19, 2008, 09:50 PM »

and what did the people talking do for your friend?
some people have their pride and do not want to beg.
The only thing you can do is to keep his things and let him buy them back
lucabrasi (m)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #3 on: April 19, 2008, 09:58 PM »

i think its a moral thing,your friend will appreciate you more if you help him out with the money rather than feeding off his misfortune,you know quite well that you r not buying it at the market value and by you posting it on here means your struggling with your conscience, please don't do it,true friendship is build over years and you never know where that friend will help you out in the future or where he ll get to financially ill give you a few examples,mike adenuga was a cab driver less than 25 years ago,ibori was a customer sales assistant on less than ten pounds an hour less than 15 years ago e.t.c personality is far outweights money and ill suggest you lend your friend mayb half the money and give him the house back, its your call
algood (f)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #4 on: April 21, 2008, 06:31 AM »

i don't think its a good idea , its better u help out financially if you can than capitalizing on his need to get his valued properties.
there is this popular song by KSA (atori laiye to ba fi si waju ati fi si eyin)

meaning the word is a cain, it moves front and back.
u can never tell when you will need a favor from your friend too.

try and help him, returns his property of keep it, and tell him or her, u only loan him the money
ifyalways (f)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #5 on: April 21, 2008, 05:12 PM »

@Topic,it is morally wrong.
You cud have just lent him the money or just given him even if its a fraction of it though there are still some people that would capitalize on the fact that you are friends and wont pay you back the lent money
Personally,i would NEVER buy a friends property,its either i give hm freely or lend him.let another unknown face buy the property,NOT me.
tRoOE (f)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #6 on: April 21, 2008, 05:36 PM »

Haba what kind of bestfriend/relationship do you guys have
You should be able to help your friend in his/her time of needs nah
What you did is morally wrong Shocked Shocked, I will not buy him/her property or even allow my bestfriend to selling the property to someone else
diehard (m)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #7 on: April 23, 2008, 03:25 PM »

There is nothing wrong in buying your friends property. What may be wrong is, if your friend asked for help and u refuse to help instead offer the choice of buying his property. Come to think of it most people hardly look at the other side of helping their friends. what if u help him with money and he refuse to pay back, that may compromise your friendship.

I always have one rule for my friends (unwritten and unspoken rule though) if i can't trust you with money there is a limit to our friendship.  Wink
algood (f)
Re: What Is Wrong In Buying My Best Friend's Property?
« #8 on: April 23, 2008, 04:43 PM »

Quote from: diehard on April 23, 2008, 03:25 PM
There is nothing wrong in buying your friends property. What may be wrong is, if your friend asked for help and u refuse to help instead offer the choice of buying his property. Come to think of it most people hardly look at the other side of helping their friends. what if u help him with money and he refuse to pay back, that may compromise your friendship.

I always have one rule for my friends (unwritten and unspoken rule though) if i can't trust you with money there is a limit to our friendship. Wink

I think there is 100 and more things wrong in buying a ''best friend '' property.

Money sometimes create problems in between friendship, but as a closed and best friends, u guys must have gone through thick and easy times together, they must have known each other limits.

Practical example, assuming best friend is in need of money to do something urgent, and at that moment he or she is broke, comes to you, swallowing his/her pride that i have some of my properties for sale e.g. refrigerator, cooker, home theatre set e.tc. so as to be able to get money to help himsslef out of the mess he his.

what do you do, start buying the properties, or rather help in looking for an alternative, maybe to laon him some but not all and ask him to look for others somewhere else, if he sell his property to an unknown person to you without your knowledge fine, so be it.

On the other hand the problem encounter is getting the money back, as a true friend indeed , he/she should return the money imediately they are done, but in most cases  they will capitalise on the fact that after all its my friend money and will not want to return it back.

A similar example i encounter is this, i have to give out half of my salary back in Nigeria to a friend who is desperately in need, but as today i have not gotten my money back.

The rule i set formyself is, i only loan people money or assist friends if i know i can spare the money.
because immediately the money is off my hand i assume is as good as gone.

As a best friend i will be willing to do anything to help he/she out of the mess they are in financially without buying properties and putting my mind off the money.
it can be paid back or not.

this yoruba adage says (owo lo ba oju ore je)
meaning money breaks firendship.

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