With so much gratitude to almighty God and all my friends on the construction section of this wonderful blog (nairaland), I will like to launch my first NAIRALAND inspired real estate project.

My name is Badmus Shamsudeen Omotope, a builder and also an active participant in the real estate market,based in Lagos, Nigeria. Since my early days out of school, I have been searching for a way to make a great impact in the construction/real estate market starting from our dear country, Nigeria and spreading to the rest of Africa and the world at large.

After some series of participation in the marketing/sales of some real estate projects I have been inspired to want to someday be able to impact on the real estate market in a tremendous way. My inspiration grew more after I started visiting this wonderful blog and I met some wonderful friends that also added to my inspiration, just like they say "you are a product of what you are surrounded with" oga spider, skimanski, chekitaut and the rest, all builders, architects and real estate players on this blog have inspired me in a way they can't imagine.

I was an active participant in the "first nairaland real estate investment" organized by Oga Spyder. After a long time of soul searching and deliberation on how best to approach this dream of mine, I had an encounter with a friend of mine who is a Real Estate surveyor by discipline, an honest, knowledgable and experienced real estate player who believes that the only way you can make an impact in the real estate is not by agency which he qualifies as managing or selling other people's value but to CREATE A VALUE, SELL THE VALUE and also MANAGE THE VALUE you created. We make it a point of duty to always ensure that we discuss and deliberate about this dream on daily basis without an idea of how to start.

It came to a point that we agreed that we should start buying parcels of land, like a single plot of land and look for a very attractive design that can sell the property,BUILD the property and SELL.

We were looking at a startup capital of about 40million naira on the Lekki-Epe axis even though, we both did not have up to a collective sum of N1million naira. First thing we did was to get a business plan, then, a proposal, we penciled down some of our friends, past clients and relatives that we thought could be interested in this dream of ours and will be willing to part with their money. After sometime, without even giving out the proposal to the first person on our list, we had a re-think and wanted to be sure of the value we are actually creating by building up nice homes to be sold at the range of N35m to N40million each for just 2 family dwelling units, and to be completed within 6 to 9 months and expected sales period of about 3 to 9 months.

Our concerns were: What is the effect of this 2 family units at a cycle of about a year in the whole accommodation deficit in Nigeria, these homes will be strictly for people of a level of high income earners, how many professionals/artisan would be positively affected in this 2 buildings/year arrangement. Etc.

So, we had a re-think and by the grace of God and so many inspiration by everyone we came up with our first master plan.
LOTUS COLONY ESTATES.

A 50acre master planned estates to be situated around the lekki-épée axis of Lekki, with 3 different categories of structures. 1. A 3bedroom pent houses with a nice exclusive compound to park 2 cars for a sum not not more than 10million naira. 2. 4 bedroom town houses not more than 13million naira/one. and 3. A semi detached apartment not more than 22million naira. Our aim was to create a nice gated environment where virtually everything will be working and will be affordable for middle income/low income earners with an opportunity of a flexible payment arrangement.

With no capital, we embarked on the journey.
I called a friend of mine an Estate Agent that I've known for a long time with a vast knowledge in the real estate market on the Lekki Épée axis, he knows the history of most of the lands on the axis, and the land he doesn't know about, he would know how to perform due diligence on the status of the land.

So around August, 2013 we got a paper for some hundreds of acre around Monastry road, Sangotedo neighborhood to fountain spring Estates, Diamond Pearl Estates, ongoing LSDPC estates, Emperor Estates (with a building going for about 200million naira) eventhough, it was not named yet then,Peace gardens Estates by Chevron,Crown Estates and the on-going construction of an international shopping mart (shop-rite or wal-mart and so many other estates so we thought it was a good and perfect location.

Our first day of inspection, myself, my real estate partner and the estate agent decided to visit the place and we were greeted with some harassment by some hoodlums claiming to be the ones guiding the property, the people that came after us were slapped and badly disgraced that we had to thank them for treating us nicely as they did.

So, we checked the land and agreed to go ahead with the purchase even though we did not have up to 1 million naira. To be continued

Nothing is impossible, if you have the dream and the motivation, and you posses both. I may be your first customer. God bless.

Hajji Mufutau

Reminds me of Wunmi Allen

Welldone my friend. Be persistently creative, you will succeed.

mufutau55: Nothing is impossible, if you have the dream and the motivation, and you posses both. I may be your first customer. God bless.

Hajji Mufutau

Thank you Hajj, you are a great source of encouragement. God bless

spyder880: Welldone my friend. Be persistently creative, you will succeed.

Thank you boss, you made me believe it can be done. With the help of God and your great contributions, I believe this will be done.

Are you guys going to purchase the 100 acres?

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It will be extremely beneficial to people aspiring to get on the property ladder in Lekki axis if you can deliver at the price you set out for your estate. You will be seen as a group of people contributing their own quota in ameliorating the difficulties of fellow Nigerians by providing some reasonably priced properties for them. We all know that there's a lot of greed in the property business most especially in Lekki axis where developers will build a house at a cost of 10 Million Naira and slap a sales price tag of 20 Million Naira on it. I wish you a successful outcome and good luck in seeing your dreams come to fruition. Cheers!

God bless u

Reporting...

Fhemmmy: Sitting on the fence for now watching and interest waxing strong

Fhemmy na wa for you oh! You no dey take eye pass any real estate post for nairaland

More power 2 ya elbows..



Meanyl.. FP tins

You've dreamt it. Now it's time to achieve it. Best of luck!

Nairaland is not a blog

*sitting down with legs crossed at this business meeting/presentation*

Following keenly.

[size=50pt]wish you luck[/size]

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Following like LKT & P-Square.

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Grabs chair..

#following
Please OP continue ths story!

Good

watching...

Plz who knw where i can do some xmass shoping
Got loads of gift to give out cuz i'll be recieving plenty too

Booked

I wish you and your team well and enough!

I hope you have dropped a check for Seun for advertising your business or else they will ban you till year 2957

Nothing is impossible, i have similar vision but to rural area, my plan is turning many to land lord's with small amount of money, u pay the land and we help u develop it to ur taste.

Aboluwarin: Nothing is impossible, i have similar vision but to rural area, my plan is turning many to land lord's with small amount of money, u pay the land and we help u develop it to ur taste.

also on my mind too.