greggng: Lawyer I bought a quater plot of land at new okooba were I built 3bed room. I have deed of assignment and I did the surveryor and my lawyer told me is free from acquision. My problem now is that the achitect told me I cant have a c of o except I will team up with the landlord to secure one. In that case whose name will be there?

sleekdre:

Lawyer, thanks for this info. I'm looking at buying a land around LBS/pan african university dat a friend of mine wants to sell to me. I've not been to d land yet. I'll like you to investigate this land for me b4 I go ahead with. I'll need your contact so I can give u d land title documents.

Eyop: Lawyer i appreciate your job. However to add to what bfmconcepts asked,i will like to know what will happen if after paying #50,000 for the search fee and after conducting your search and it turns out negative like what happened to this man you mentioned,does it mean the #50k is gone without any achievement?

Because i am considering a situation where by after paying #50k and the 1st search turns out negative and i present another land matter to you,will it still warrant i pay another #50,000?

baffylander: Do people still buy land(s) without authenticating the veracity or otherwise of same especially in a fast-developing city like lagos? ...like seriously ...i give up... A dumb person will always remain a dumb person...

Edoblakky: Permit me to share an experience. Over 2 years ago, I contracted a lawyer who seemed vast in land matters to buy a certain land in Osapa London. He charged me 200k to do search and to negotiate the land in my favour. I paid him after buying the land for 10M and found out I'd been hoodwinked. I called the lawyer and demanded for everything I spent. He seemed coorperating and we started recovering my money and he later took off and I've not seen him as we speak. Though it took me over 2 years to recover my money by myself. Now, I know better as I bought another land at Ikate also in Lekki. I used another Lawyer who did a thorough search and filed the search documents for me to see. Pls if you pay a lawyer to do search on a land, ask the lawyer to give you a documented proof

NSTC: Mr Lawyer indeed most of your post are valuable and does help a lot of people,i personally think it is unfair to bring up this particular matter in the way you did.
Yes you offered your services to the said man but he chose not to employ your services,he hasn't really done anything wrong by that. If i lost 5 million Naira the last thing i want is to read all about it online,especially from a professional that should know all about confidentiality. There are several post in which you have advised people about the dangers of purchasing properties without due diligence and am sure a lot of Nairalanders are grateful for that but it is absolutely unnecessary to score points out of another person's loss ,especially if that person can come across all the " bullets " fired his way. i.e " one chance "

Finally you are a pro. and reserve the right to charge whatever amount you feel your services are worth but it doesn't really cost 50k to verify the status of any land. I wouldn't have mentioned this but for the fact you seem to always give the impression you are out to help people save cost.
As recently as 4 months ago i instructed a Lawyer to conduct a search on 2 properties and he only charged me 20k for both ,though i must say the plots are on the same block. And he specifically told me it will only cost him 3k each at Alausa, he is a friend and knows that won't stop me paying for his services.

This in no way discredit the good work you do by educating people about the intricacies of purchasing Landed properties,all i say is be professional to the core. Salut

lawyer:

If both of you have a cordial relationship, you could both apply to have the C of O made jointly in your name. It will be disasterous if you allow your neighbour's name be the sole name on the C of O because it could lead to so many complications in future in case you want to sell the land or your children want to inherit it or you want to use it for a loan. Your Architect is right and i would advise you to heed his words.

lawyer:

The N50,000 Land Verification Retainer will cover a period of 1 month. If at the end of the first search, we find out that there are issues or encumbrances on that property, the Client is entitled to select another Property within that same month from the moment we are instructed to conduct another search at no extra cost . If by the end of the search period we haven’t secured you a property that meets your approval based on our Verification Report, you have the option to pay a further Retainer to extend the search for subsequent land verification checks. We feel your pain that is why we are not always happy when a search has gone wrong or we discover that the land has issues. We have a history of turning down so many lands and continuing the search for the Client till we are both satisfied. Money isn't the issue here but peace of mind and ability to build in comfort.

Learn more about our services on http://omonilelawyer.com/land-verification-service/our-fees/.Lawyer, I have two plots of land about 1 kilometer west of LaTropicana Resort. Its fenced. I bought it few years ago
. Just about to start work on it when I come to Nigeria in Dec. Will like to talk to u personally on the phone. Thanks for everything you have been doing.
Cheers

greggng: Lawyer I must thank you for your timely education. Actually he is not my neigbor but he is the land owner. He just decided to sale a quater out of his one plot. My plan is to discuss a joint c of o with him. How much to you think it will cost us financially . You may write me and let me know how much it may cost you to handle this for us greggng@yahoo.com . In your reply kindly details all the document we re expected to present to enable you secure c of o for us. Finally how long it will take to get that? My intention is to make available the whole fund for this excercise cos the old man doesn't have fund . I don't wanna ve problems with the kids when their father dies

Tmany: Chai just learnt a lot.
But 50k is not that much to verify a land worth 5 million its just 1 percent of 5 million.
5 million truly down the drain

lawyer:

My brother am confused too. He has been so depressed and texting me frantically to help him out. He told me he took a loan to buy the land and he wanted to put a commercial structure there. He said he has even gone ahead to pay the architect and paid money to building suppliers and builders to erect a fence and foundation before this devastating Land Information dropped on his laps. So we are looking at an extra N3Million here if we add the above costs for the fence. I wish i knew what to tell him and all this could have been avoided.

spyroxy1: But why do all these surveyors quote the coordinate of a free land, when they really know the land is a committed land?

lawyer:

If both of you have a cordial relationship, you could both apply to have the C of O made jointly in your name. It will be disasterous if you allow your neighbour's name be the sole name on the C of O because it could lead to so many complications in future in case you want to sell the land or your children want to inherit it or you want to use it for a loan. Your Architect is right and i would advise you to heed his words.

olaoreawofele: Buyers Beware . MONAN Garden Estate Sangotedo is fraud.

LPC, the solicitor to Oyetubo Joko T'ade placed a caveat in the Guarding Newspaper of Monday 18th Novemeber. LPC disclaimed any transaction with Monan and warned the public from buying plots from Monan Garden Estate Sangotedo.

Beware, be guided.