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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by dadson2009(m): 11:46am On Mar 17, 2016
Oga o, I don't know what to say
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by bettercreature(m): 11:46am On Mar 17, 2016
ifenes:


I have a house in Nigeria where the tenants are living there rent free,as long as they keep it clean. You will die and leave the house at some point anyway.
You must be a thief or stole the money from somewhere,no hard working man would build a house and allow people to live there for free
Mine are not inheritance they are investment,i know how much my friend who has hotels are making daily

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by bestower: 11:47am On Mar 17, 2016
My bro,pls kindly visit lagos state centre for mediation ASAP today report him,then on ur way to the house visit a nearby police station report also because of his intentions of bringing in OPC... but all in all pls move ur family away today to a safer place before u start dis wahala wit him...but get somewhere to lend money while fighting d fight to another place my penny for u.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Pwettyella(f): 11:47am On Mar 17, 2016
BrOwnSuga3:

You are heartless
Very very

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by applemark: 11:47am On Mar 17, 2016
shey oro ni yen! sure you will die but what about leaving a legacy for your loved ones! mschewwwwwww! na lie! you not fit afford nail , you wan build duplex !(9ice)


ifenes:


I have a house in Nigeria where the tenants are living there rent free,as long as they keep it clean. You will die and leave the house at some point anyway.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by bettercreature(m): 11:49am On Mar 17, 2016
kaziblake:
Bros can I pm you?
One is currently battling my mum.
My sister you have got to buy court order coupled with paid soldiers
Take the law into your hand most of them can not afford to hire a lawyer
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by ifenes(m): 11:49am On Mar 17, 2016
bettercreature:
You must be a thief or stole the money from somewhere,no hard working man would build a house and allow people to live there for free
Mine are not inheritance they are investment,i know how much my friend who has hotels are making daily

Fair enough Mr hard worker who thinks others don't work hard too. Not everyone is greedy. I choose to help people rather than extort money off them.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by imakemoney: 11:50am On Mar 17, 2016
man get a good lawyer
i also got a quit notice only last night.
my rent is not even due.it wud be due in june
am not even bother because l spoke to my lawyer and i was assured that
after my rent is due in june the six month notice takes effect.

my lawyer is going to reply them i dont want to bother mysef on that

on your own case
i think you u go to mediation centre jus as someone said
the government would be interested in your case

i think its some wher in Alausa secretariat.
jus inside the secretariat buliding

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by mizquote(f): 11:50am On Mar 17, 2016
Op what do you really need?
financial help or advice?
if you need people to help you financially, you need to post pictures.
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by ifenes(m): 11:50am On Mar 17, 2016
@Sodconfirm How much do you need for your house? 50,000?

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by bettercreature(m): 11:51am On Mar 17, 2016
ifenes:


Fair enough Mr hard worker who thinks others don't work hard too. Not everyone is greedy. I choose to help people rather than extort money off them.
I wont argue with you! you dont know anything you are just trying to be relevant
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by tete7000(m): 11:52am On Mar 17, 2016
sodconfirm:
Hello NLs

I type this message with a very confused and worried heart because i don't know what to do next, I had financial challenges after loosing my job in 2008, I had to cut down on my living so i moved from my 2bedroom flat in Ifako Ijaye to a room and parlor house off AIT road, Alagbado, I am married with 2 kids and we live together here, we are the last of 5 tenants, my second year rent just ended February 2016 ( Last month), I owe no house rent nor electricity bill nor lawma bills.


I was able to manage my home with my farm management job. My landlord arrived by late January from London, Uk where he is based and said i should not bother paying this year's rent that we should all pack out of the house, He said some two tenants who have been in the house for many years owes him money and they also don't pay bills, he wants to send everyone packing and he gave us just 5 DAYS to move, I explained to him that i have not gathered enough money to rent new place, He said he will refund a year rent for me which is 60k (5k monthly for the 2 rooms). I was satisfied because i had about N50,000 in my account and i have been planning to move out of this out because i am not recording any progress since i moved in. I believe i could get another place with that amount. He did not promise the others any help before he left.


The two oldest tenant that have stayed for about 7 years told us after he left that he will still come back to collect the rent, that is his usual method whenever he comes around. He has been telling them to vacate the house since first year they moved in, To cut the story short, I started looking for a place and i got a place, I called him for the 60k promise to add to what i have to pay the rent. He started posting me until i got tired of calling him only for him to surface again on Sunday 13th of March after a month plus with a bricklayer, they started blocking the back door with bricks, he said everyone must move out, after much pleading, he blocked off the two old tenants while they hurriedly move out their belongings, their belongings still litter around the compound, he blocked off the toilet bath and kitchen and he brought an electrician to disconnect the light.


We are now left in darkness with no bathroom toilet and kitchen. He said he is coming back again for the rest of us by Friday 18th of March with OPC to move us out. I pleaded with him that i have gotten a new place that he should give me the money he promised so i can pay for the place and move in there before friday. He said NO, he insisted that i will have to pack my properties outside first before he can give me the money. The people who live on the same street with us started coming in with different stories of how the man has ejected tenants in the past, How he sometimes bring in Nigerian Army to throw people out, How he is heavily charmed, How he has placed charms on the four corners of the house and people started dying until they moved out, Although i don't believe that any evil power can overcome me, i am not afraid of charms because i serve a living God. They said that is how he usually promise people he thinks can resist him and he will suddenly storm the house and move them out. They were telling me with assurance that he will not give me a dime. I am concerned about him coming with who ever he has in his plan to throw my belongings out when i don't have anywhere to go or money to get another place. I do not owe this man any rent, I still have the teller i used to pay the last rent into his account. He has not served me any letter or quit notice.


Please mods i plead with you to help me move this to front-page so i can get advice and possible help. I don't know exactly where to post this but please help me move it to the right session. I need to act fast before he comes in 2 days (Friday). I am planning to tweet this link to as many people as possible. I will appreciate all the help and advise i can get, I can't imagine to be homeless with my family.



If you serve a living God he will surely come to your aid at the nick of time. Pray and relax for he says ' Do not be anxious about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself'. I am very certain God doesn't disappoint. He won't allow his anointed ones to suffer disgrace and shame. Keep faith in him and look up to him.
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by applemark: 11:52am On Mar 17, 2016
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A BAD TENANT! why don't you just move out and pray to God to build your own, when your tenant start ruining your investment and run away with your rent, don't bring your story to NL

imakemoney:
man get a good lawyer
i also got a quit notice only last night.
my rent is not even due.it wud be due in june
am not even bother because l spoke to my lawyer and i was assured that
after my rent is due in june the six month notice takes effect.

my lawyer is going to reply them i dont want to bother mysef on that

on your own case
i think you u go to mediation centre jus as someone said
the government would be interested in your case

i think its some wher in Alausa secretariat.
jus inside the secretariat buliding

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by 100Cents: 11:54am On Mar 17, 2016
I prophecy to you.

By this time next year, you will be living in your own house.

Heaven, i demand a turnaround for this young man. You shall not suffer diagrace.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by colebrent: 11:55am On Mar 17, 2016
BUTCHCASSIDY:
How about we all cometogether contribute and help tgis guy out

Someone has to go confirm this story first....

Even na 5k each from anybody.... But after confirmation ooo... God helps who helps other
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Nobody: 11:56am On Mar 17, 2016
This is the only person making sense out of all the posts made so far. Op needs money to get things arranged quickly, others are just dishing opinions that are not really useful at this point. Leave "opinions" for now, let's contribute for him.
BUTCHCASSIDY:


That's cool. Now the question is who will go

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by kaziblake(f): 11:56am On Mar 17, 2016
bettercreature:
My sister you have got to buy court order coupled with paid soldiers
Take the law into your hand most of them can not afford to hire a lawyer
This one is actually a woman,a very stubborn one.
1yr and 3month free,my mum helped her because she and her husband were having problem.
She is saying she will go anytime she likes.
I would have told my mum about this op because we have empty rooms but she already vowed not to help again.

Thanks,i will tell my mum.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Nobody: 11:57am On Mar 17, 2016
Thats why i do tell my friends, everyone needs a lawyer either as friends or as your own paid personal lawyer that will help in times of crisis like this.
Lets assume u had the backing or services of a lawyer , immediately yur landlord hinted that five days notice, u quickly consult yur lawyer. And your lawyer will serve him a notice of breach of agreement in landlord /tenants agreement. As soon as yur landlord is served , the nuts in. His brain will be screwed back in the right hinges and its either he backs off or he later comes back with 6months notice.
You as a tenant have a right to sue and arrest your landlord for this injustice.. Talk to a lawyer, he will handle it effectively.

Then the jazz aspect forget.. If u r deep in prayers, no weapon fashioned against u and yur family shall prosper.. Every other power is counterfeit when God is on yur case.. So simply be prayerful with yur wife.
Best of luck

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by 9jatatafo(m): 11:58am On Mar 17, 2016
Proceed to public defender

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Judas2013: 11:58am On Mar 17, 2016
tete7000:


If you serve a living God he will surely come to your aid at the nick of time. Pray and relax for he says ' Do not be anxious about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself'. I am very certain God doesn't disappoint. He won't allow his anointed ones to suffer disgrace and shame. Keep faith in him and look up to him.

Lol when you know god ain't real. Basically you meant you can't help him?
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by applemark: 12:00pm On Mar 17, 2016
sorry i keep commenting one everyones comment, its just i hate bad tenants, they are all over the place, my tenant in the UK same, and its quite common with Nigerians, once you pity them they take the pi$$! and these are the same tenants that will go to church on sunday crying to God to help them and yet they making other people's live miserable....... God punish all bad tenant! you all shall experience the miseries you put good landlords through!


kaziblake:
This one is actually a woman,a very stubborn one.
1yr and 3month free,my mum helped her because she and her husband were having problem.
She is saying she will go anytime she likes.
I would have told my mum about this op because we have empty rooms but she already vowed not to help again.

Thanks,i will tell my mum.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by 4nobody4every1: 12:00pm On Mar 17, 2016
sad angry
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Donemmy(m): 12:02pm On Mar 17, 2016
If you have any eviction evidence pls proceed to any nearby citizenship mediation centre & lodge complain. Hope u have his contact number?
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Ramanto(m): 12:03pm On Mar 17, 2016
Ghandi12:


Storming your tenant's place is a crime and can send you to jail.




He has diabolical powers yet he still needs to oppress his tenants to augment his income. He should have been using the powers to make money instead. This Landlord or any other landlord is subject to the law of land on tenancy.

When Last Did Anything Being A Crime Stop Anyone From Doing Anything Nigeria?

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Surfboard(m): 12:03pm On Mar 17, 2016
Really sorry to hear about this. You may have to move out in the end but I'd advise you find a lawyer(i pray he does your matter free of charge) cause legally, you're entitled to a 6 month quit notice, which obviously your landlord hasn't complied.

Shame I don't live in Lagos, cause i'd have loved to be of help. I hope/pray things turn out well in the end.
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by sodconfirm: 12:04pm On Mar 17, 2016
Larryjay4u:
Bro, how much do you have as we are talking? I live close to your area and we can quickly get a small apartment to rent. Then you can begin to discuss other things with the Landlord. Guys let come together to help.

I can volunteer to visit his house and verify things after which we can make the needed support today or latest tomorrow.


God bless you my brother, The address is No 15. Thomas Ekun Street. Blue Banana bus stop. Off Ait Road. Alagbado. Here is my phone number in case you need direction 08089967066 and 08092566176. I had N50,000 When the problem started but i have spent out of it. I now have N40,000.

I look forward to moving out first even if i want to fight for my right.
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by kaziblake(f): 12:04pm On Mar 17, 2016
applemark:
sorry i keep commenting one everyones comment, its just i hate bad tenants, they are all over the place, my tenant in the UK same, and its quite common with Nigerians, once you pity them they take the pi$$! and these are the same tenants that will go to church on sunday crying to God to help them and yet they making other people's live miserable....... God punish all bad tenant! you all shall experience the miseries you put good landlords through!


Exactly!!!
Some don't even care how you feed or pay your kids school fees.
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by ttmacoy: 12:04pm On Mar 17, 2016
When I read statements like this it just makes me realise how much religion holds this country hostage.

What the landlord is doing is illegal pure and simply but here we are trying to justify it with when God is trying to move you to a barren land.

That is part of the mentality that has led us to this state where everything goes with no care for law or order. We have laws in Nigeria don't we? Isn't it illegal for a landlord to evict a tenant withou due notice? Isn't it illegal to prevent tenants especially with children from using facilities in a house? The landlord has obviously committed a crime but hey just take it and go. You don't know it God is trying to take you from your barren land.

No he must stand up for his right and go report the landlord. It's this attitude of just take it and thank God that has led Nigeria to a country where everyone just does what they want with no penalty nothing.

There was a post on nairaland where a lady complained about sexual abuse by her boss but our response, just pray about it. A lady posted about a guy molesting her in a bus, our response just pray about it you don't know what God can do.

We justify everything bad now with the hope that it's God trying to make things better. I'm sorry but we have a long way to go before we develop the attitude that will make Nigeria great.

Please don't take this as a personal attack, it just makes me so mad at how far we have fallen as a nation.

macaranta:
Do you want to fight him with your whole family?Move your family to a relative's for the Main time while you negotiate 6-months rent with a better landlord explaining your current predicament.
Sometimes when God tries to move you out of a barren land,don't fight it.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Panzerfaust(m): 12:04pm On Mar 17, 2016
paulsconnect:
He wants to throw you out ?... Throw him in na
How old are you?

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by tete7000(m): 12:05pm On Mar 17, 2016
Judas2013:


Lol when you know god ain't real. Basically you meant you can't help him?

My comment was not directed to a nonentity like you. Kindly stay clear of me. Join issues with fools like yourself.
Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by Akainzo(m): 12:07pm On Mar 17, 2016
mysteriousman:
Did he give you any written notice to vacate the house 6 months before the expiration of your rent? If he didn't then take the matter to court. That will buy you time or you can plead with him any option you fit choose

Please most people misinterpret this provision of the law. It actually applies to both parties!

If your Landlord wants to eject you, he would give you 6 months notice.
If the tenant wants to renew, he should also give 6 months notice.

So if neither party gives any notice, it is deemed that both accept that the tenancy agreement will lapse at the end of the Present Contract.

So OP might be better off negotiating with the Landlord.

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Re: My Landlord Wants To Throw Me Out! Please Help! by zheroes(m): 12:08pm On Mar 17, 2016
Teespice:
first of all you are a yearly tenant which means that your landlord going by the provisions of the tenancy laws of lagos state is meant to give you six months notice. he ran foul of that when he gave you five days notice. you are not a weekly tenant na. weekly tenants even get seven days notice.

him resorting to self help by threatening to call OPC as well as blocking certain areas of the house with brick is trespass on your landlords part. you can sue him for damages. a tenant has certain rights one of which is freedom from unreasonable disturbances and right to privacy as well as the right to use and enjoy the common areas of the house which in this case is the back door.

he has no right to disconnect your electricity nor your water supply. it is a clear breach of his obligations as a landlord.

you have a good case against him.

hope this helps. cheers.
good advice. But the challenge is are there lawyers willing to fight this case without a dime? The agencies entrusted with the responsibility are dead because no one knows their addresses or how to get across to them without spending a dime. We are in trouble.

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