jaydacorsair:

lol bro. I paid him 30% of the contract sum with the hope im on the right track and
I wanted to post the quote but decided not to distract him. I wanted to travel back
and monitor the house via nairaland and something delayed me then before the block
blunders and all mehn I thank God I didn't travel.

Jamesqu:
Pele...with all his posts online, I had him on speed dail for next year, but after this...I don delete...I feel u!

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A couple of years ago (I think it was around 2010) when he was at the earlier stages of (what was allegedly) his house in Sagamu, he was on this very forum asking newbie questions. I still remember vividly because one particular Nairalander (with handle aasog or aasog1 or something like that) stood out amongst others on that thread in terms of the quality of advise he was giving Brabus and on this basis I had the aasog guy on my "monitor" list. I remember Brabus being openly thankful for the advice he was getting and throughout he did not give anyone the impression he was a professional builder, quite the opposite, he instead spoke as an average guy who just wanted to complete his personal project without getting ripped off by others - much like jaydacorsair here. And then, the next thing you will see, out of nowhere, is "NextHome Builders". Jesus Christ.

Now he goes about parading himself as a consummate professional and you would be forgiven for thinking he has been building houses for ages. By cleverly associating himself with folks like Spider, Segcy, etc, he has created a perfect camouflage for his inexperience. By using superior presentation skills, he projects professionalism. This guy is practically making it up as he goes, with goof after goof and unfortunately it is clients who are paying the price.

Brabus is a contractor and not a builder, not an engineer nor an Architect, His real field is computer science, i have read this in one of his post. Now being a computer scientist is not a problem as any one can be a contractor as long as you have the flair, time and capacity (financial and personnel)unfortunately this guy did not engage any professional in his contracting firm who can provide him some engineering backings and he would not have this kind of problems.For this kind of contractor client pays more as the contractor would like to make up to 25% profit in other to pay all the personnel in their team.
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Folks, especially those in the Diaspora, before you dish your money out please triple check properly and don't be guided by what you are seeing and hearing on a faceless forum. I rest my case and wish jaydacorsair the best possible outcome from here on.

I agreed with you absolutely, client in diaspora should check track records from past and present clients.

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I still do not understand how Brabus managed to hoodwink virtually everyone on Nairaland into believing he is seasoned builder. He is not. Please do not throw away your money.

A couple of years ago (I think it was around 2010) when he was at the earlier stages of (what was allegedly) his house in Sagamu, he was on this very forum asking newbie questions. I still remember vividly because one particular Nairalander (with handle aasog or aasog1 or something like that) stood out amongst others on that thread in terms of the quality of advise he was giving Brabus and on this basis I had the aasog guy on my "monitor" list. I remember Brabus being openly thankful for the advice he was getting and throughout he did not give anyone the impression he was a professional builder, quite the opposite, he instead spoke as an average guy who just wanted to complete his personal project without getting ripped off by others - much like jaydacorsair here. And then, the next thing you will see, out of nowhere, is "NextHome Builders". Jesus Christ.

Now he goes about parading himself as a consummate professional and you would be forgiven for thinking he has been building houses for ages. By cleverly associating himself with folks like Spider, Segcy, etc, he has created a perfect camouflage for his inexperience. By using superior presentation skills, he projects professionalism. This guy is practically making it up as he goes, with goof after goof and unfortunately it is clients who are paying the price.


Folks, especially those in the Diaspora, before you dish your money out please triple check properly and don't be guided by what you are seeing and hearing on a faceless forum. I rest my case and wish jaydacorsair the best possible outcome from here on.

X!

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I still do not understand how Brabus managed to hoodwink virtually everyone on Nairaland into believing he is seasoned builder. He is not. Please do not throw away your money.

A couple of years ago (I think it was around 2010) when he was at the earlier stages of (what was allegedly) his house in Sagamu, he was on this very forum asking newbie questions. I still remember vividly because one particular Nairalander (with handle aasog or aasog1 or something like that) stood out amongst others on that thread in terms of the quality of advise he was giving Brabus and on this basis I had the aasog guy on my "monitor" list. I remember Brabus being openly thankful for the advice he was getting and throughout he did not give anyone the impression he was a professional builder, quite the opposite, he instead spoke as an average guy who just wanted to complete his personal project without getting ripped off by others - much like jaydacorsair here. And then, the next thing you will see, out of nowhere, is "NextHome Builders". Jesus Christ.

Now he goes about parading himself as a consummate professional and you would be forgiven for thinking he has been building houses for ages. By cleverly associating himself with folks like Spider, Segcy, etc, he has created a perfect camouflage for his inexperience. By using superior presentation skills, he projects professionalism. This guy is practically making it up as he goes, with goof after goof and unfortunately it is clients who are paying the price.


Folks, especially those in the Diaspora, before you dish your money out please triple check properly and don't be guided by what you are seeing and hearing on a faceless forum. I rest my case and wish jaydacorsair the best possible outcome from here on.

X!

ceasare: @jaydarcosair:quality comes at a price.u shd hv gone ahead with ur architect n hs cost as adviced by segcy.moor.but u c clients tends to be wiser anytime they c a reduced qoute or an avenue to reduce cost and this is what happens afterwards.just wrk around it with brabus, with in house help here u can stl get ur project to stand test of time.
to all other forumite and would be jaydacorsair look before u leap.quality n competence comes at a price...my 20kobo

jam04: Can brabus let us know the status of this building now?

brabus: Update

kopell: @Brabus can you give us the detail of rectification procedure you used to rectified the problem, before you arrived at the picture shown. I comment your talent if it true as being said above that you're a computer science graduate practicing civil construction engineering. It great to have people like you in our society, that proved yourself in economic situation like ours in Nigeria will not pull you down in doing some thing els if the system fail to provide opportunity in line of your profession. A little advice for you in this line of field you choses to practice, take some advice management courses in quoting and negotiation of contracts without compromising quality. As professional you alway stick to your gun when it's come to quality, your client may being looking at cost, you should be able to convince him of the conscious of cutting corners. One mistake is to much of the same.
Good luck keep doing what you love to do.

segcy.moor:



I need to tell this bluntly, if you see any one given you less than this is either not knowing what is doing or intend to ask for more later. I tell u this guy is being honest enough. Go for it!

Aventures:
I have just found out that we have just wasted our time and megabytes on this tread as i am sure that the client has accepted whatever comes his way. We do not see the progress of correction work done,only for us to see the Oversite concrete. It was evident that all our advises and recommendation were thrown to the trash as i can still see that the columns still remain 6" x 6" (150mm x 150mm). Of course they will now increase the columns to 230 x 230 after the German floor. I don not want to waste my megabytes any more i sign out of this tread right away.

kopell: @Brabus I appreciate your maturity in the way you response to criticize of people. This is one of the challenges one will go thru if they're to succeed in business world. Your competitors will do anything in there power to derail you in the field. Be careful in the way you execute you contract.
Good luck

kopell: @Brabus I appreciate your maturity in the way you response to criticize of people. This is one of the challenges one will go thru if they're to succeed in business world. Your competitors will do anything in there power to derail you in the field. Be careful in the way you execute you contract.
Good luck