tabithababy:
Eeyah, you are too gentle, anytime he shout or disrespect you, shout back immediately, stop giving him attention

He shouts your name from downstairs, you rush to meet him Why can't you stay upstairs, frown your face and answer him from there

don't mind the writer, he his a gentle man and wants to leave in Lagos. You go give match to match. Disrespect him and borne him. Who get time

morgan100:


I realised that I was too cool for him, which I have changed that, I have some plans for him, and it seems he will soon enter the trap

You are not too cool, you are a weakling physically, mentally and emotionally.

I put it to you that you CAN NEVER "change it for him" because you neither have the willpower nor guts. You don fall your hand for that compound and even the area. You will be used as an example of a weakling and mocked by everyone in the neighborhood, including YOUR WIFE.

Jesus, a man of 32/34 behaving like a toddler! Beside, what is even your purpose of bringing it to Nairaland? I de vex for you badly.

Send me DM make I help you redeem small of your image.

RedBororo:
Dear friend please maintain your calm mature, if the guy is looking for trouble ignore him, but when he becomes physical never hit him back just get police involved and size him up, I repeat never have a combant with him, so people are trouble

That's the number one plan I have for him

Guy, u really tried but ur Gentility is what is giving dis madman courage. Ignore him like other neighbours do. Dont give him attention. If other tenant have stayed despite his madness, u can also too. Worst to happen, pack out at d expiration of ur rent. Don't just give him DAT attention he is seeking.

morgan100:

My wife was happy I didn't hit him back, not that I can't fight back, I was only respecting him initially because he was older than I do, and besides am not used to fighting unnecessarily, I only wanted to use the right means to deal with him, of which if I knew my wife won't allow me to arrest him, I would have hit mine back in a very hard way self, so not that I can't do anything.

That man is violent. How are you sure that he can't attack you with object next time? It is either you leave that compound or team up with other tenants and make sure that the caretaker or landlord ejects him from the compound.
Again, why always you and him since you moved in, why not him and other tenants? Are you sure you yourself are not troublesome? Just asking.
Either way, you or that man has got to leave that compound to avoid untimely death

TonyeBarcanista:

You are not too cool, you are a weakling physically, mentally and emotionally.

I put it to you that you CAN NEVER "change it for him" because you neither have the willpower nor guts. You don fall your hand for that compound and even the area. You will be used as an example of a weakling and mocked by everyone in the neighborhood, including YOUR WIFE.

Jesus, a man of 32/34 behaving like a toddler! Beside, what is even your purpose of bringing it to Nairaland? I de vex for you badly.

Send me DM make I help you redeem small of your image.

Smiles, u actually don't know what am cable of, I can really tolerate people, but when am pushed to the wall, guy make I just shot up

J111333, why are you disturbing the OP? The day e go blow you for teeth and shift ya jaw my hand no dey there o. Immediately I saw that dilapidated cage I knew you were the one. That is your poultry.

Op, you are too gentle. Fight fire with fire.

morgan100 , so you brought this our little issue to nairaland abi

You will meet me in the house

I won't say a word

People that display extreme erratic behavior are psychologically & spiritually impaired, to overcome the psychological aspect make sure you don't give them too much attention, the spiritual aspect entails you maintain a clean and free mind towards them while neutralizing whatever power they may possess that instigate their negative actions through prayers, some of them actually possess some real spiritual power and will try it out on anyone at any giving opportunity. This will definitely solve all the problem you just mentioned.

Your neighbour is depressed and lazy

Guy you too gentle to a fault. Honestly.

If I were in your shoes, that man will be looking for another accommodation as we speak. ARRANT NONSENSE.

Bros! You dey provoke me o!

You should have at least arrested the mutherfoker if you didn't have the liver of hitting him back. Why didn't you even hit back? There is no crime in that, it's called self-defense for God F**king sake!


Don't always listen to your wife, listen to yourself.

Amdoyin:
don't mind the writer, he his a gentle man and wants to leave in Lagos. You go give match to match. Disrespect him and borne him. Who get time

I was not exposed to being rude and unnecessarily being violent, I respected him, that's normal, but he now proved to me that no matter how u clean up a pig, it will always go back to the mod...

babythug:
Despite your peace loving nature you just must begin to assert yourself as a co-tenant and not the man’s dependant.

He’s quarrelsome and exhibiting borderline mental health decay. He won’t change any lld whether he does or not isn’t your cup of tea.

Firstly next time he calls you DO NOT respond . Let him shout till his voice is hoarse.

Ensure your wife and property in the common areas are out of harm’s way as best as you can manage. You can’t park your vehicle in your flat but ensure it’s as far as possible from his “space” .

If you do find yourself face to face with him walk away and should he be violent defend yourself as best as you can.

With or without your wife’s permission make a report to police about his constant provocations for future reference. Not an arrest just a report.

Good luck

I agree with this.

morgan100:
Sorry that this might be lengthy, but that’s just the only way I can cover what happened.

Around March last year, I needed an accommodation where I can bring in my wife because we were getting married. I use to live in one room self-contain, but due to the fact that I was getting married, I needed a flat. Just within my area, there is this apartment that I really love, the house is just 4 flats, so I decide to make inquiries about the house. On that very day, I went to the house, I met a man who claimed to be in-charge of the house and also claimed to be an occupant in the house.

I asked if there was any vacant space he said yes, how much? He told me the price, but asked if am the one that wants to secure the apartment, I said yes, He told me he cannot give the house to someone who is not married and someone who is a yahoo boy. I don’t know why he thought I was a yahoo boy, maybe because I looked young to be looking for a flat to rent, because I was 31 years old then and I really looked younger than my age. I told him though I was not married at that point in time, but it’s because I wanted to get married that was why am looking for an apartment, that if not for that reason, what will I want to do with a flat, only me? And for the issue of a yahoo boy, I told him am not and that he can make more findings about me, thank God the area is a student area, and that I use to be a part time lecturer in the campus close by, but now I own an ICT outlet that handles any ICT related job, so he can go ahead to make all the findings that he needs.

Fast forward…. I secured the apartment, paid and I moved in….

THE PROBLEM
The very first day I met the man, from the way he was talking, I knew he was going to be a very troublesome fellow, but I just felt, this is a flat and everyone should be able to mind his or own business, so I never mind. First thing I noticed was that, this man that I never knew, was beginning to tell me bad stuffs about the people living in the house, I was like is this man ok? Is it that you don’t want me to take the house because of these people or I should avoid these people once I secure the house? I actually don’t know, that was the first sign. Again i discovered that that the man and the other tenants don’t relate at all.

When I moved in, the man want to be bossing me around, like screaming my name from outside, something like “MARK !!!!!!” come down here, when I get there, he will just bring up some useless issue, he address me in a very rude way, just for me to know that no matter what i think i am or what i own, he is older than me, and he always makes it look like he did me a favor by linking me up with the caretaker of the house to give a house. But I was not bothered by that anyways, I just do ignore that.

To the other tenants in the house, I introduced myself to them, they were happy to see me, and that they can’t wait to meet my wife when am married, they seems to be nice more the guy I first met, and they mentioned something that, “WELCOME BROS, YOU WILL SOON GET TO KNOW EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE.

After the wedding, my wife moved in, the other neighbors came to say hi to my wife, but I noticed that this man and his wife never showed up, even with the fact that I told him and the wife before travelling for the wedding. Even when they saw me and my wife together, they just acted as if they didn’t see us, toooor, that's their problem, me will just greet them my own and move on, and never introduced my wife to them, because I was not even bothered self.

He begins to get more hostile for no reason, like shouting my name like he used to do, telling me didn’t I see this, didn’t I see that, talking to be like his 5 years old son, complaining about how water was dropping from kitchen, that the water is disturbing his balcony, you need to see how hostile and rude he presented the matter, as if I was the one that caused the dropping of water from the kitchen, you actually need to see the water he was complaining about, the water can’t fill up a small milk can in 3-hours, and not that we make use of the kitchen every hour. In order to avoid problems, I went to block the water that goes out from the kitchen, so that it does not drop anymore, we do go down stairs to throwaway dirty water from the kitchen outside, I told the caretaker who is also a plumber he came to fix it, it was just a leaking pipe.

There was a day, he shouted my name and I even thought something serious happened, when I got down stairs, he was like, he saw a guy now that left my apartment, I said yes that's true, hope no problem, he was like, he don't want to see him in this compound again, I was like, why? he said the guy is rude, that if the guy sees him on the street, he don't use to greet him, I was like for real? He said yes, I told him i have heard, and I just smiled and left.

One day I and my wife was coming back from an evening outing, as we were about entering the gate my car battery just went dead all of a sudden, and it’s an automatic car, I had to go and lend a battery to start the car from someone close by, when I got the battery, I used it to start the car, and I returned my battery into the car, left it working so that the battery can charge a little, I went to return the battery to the owner who was just like 2 houses from where my car broke down, not even up to a 2 minutes-walk, before I knew what was happening, this man has started shouting my name all over the house to come and put off the car, that am disturbing him, you need to see where his apartment is and where the car broke down, I almost lost my cool that evening, but I was calmed by my wife. I was like, I can’t just leave the engine running for no reason, and he should have even asked what the problem was for me to have left the car engine running, since he has never seen me do that before.

I was not around one day like that, my wife called me that there was light in other flats, but there was no light in our own apartment. My flat and his flat shares the same wire from the electric pole, funny enough, he went to disconnect my flat from the wire, claiming that the wire he just bought the wire from the pole and since the wire belongs to him, I should connect my flat from elsewhere. I told my wife to go and meet the other neighbor in the other flat to see how they can help, in-fact when my wife told the guys in other flat what happened, my wife told me that I need to see the way the guys quickly rose up and help her in connecting the wire to theirs, that she should not worry that everything is alright. (THOSE WERE THE PEOPLE THE MAN TAGGED BAD PEOPLE OO).

I drove into the compound one day, and about that time, NEPA brought light and I went down stairs to put on the pumping machine, as I was about going back to my apartment, this man called me like he used to do, and asked me to come and see something, I knew it won’t end well, because he always have this rude and hostile way of talking to people, he took me to the place I drove in with the car and told me that didn’t I see that I used my car tire to dirty the place, I was like seriously? Haba, am not the only one passing through this place, the other guys have cars too, and this place is not even dirty because the last time I checked, I was even the one that sweep this place, and not that my tires were cover with mod, He was like he is going to deal with me, that he was going to call the landlord so that they will chase me out of the compound, I was like deal with me? For what? Already the noise from him and my voice made my wife came out and the other guys in the other flat came out too, before I know what was happening, he HIT ME ON MY FACE………….

I was so mad, in fact in my life I have been mad like that before, the fact that there were people outside, I said to myself I won’t hit back, at least I have witnesses, I was going to report him to the police, but I gave him the piece of my mind in a very disrespectful way. I went upstairs to grab a shirt heading to the police station, but my wife refused me going to the police, that I should just let it go, that she don’t want police wahala, but the other tenant in the house refused, they said I most get him arrested, but on a second thought the guy (the other tenant) said, in as much as he would love to see me arrest this man, but “GUY, DO WHAT YOUR WIFE WANT”. I tried as much as I can to calm down, because I was so angry. Not even knowing that the other guys in the apartment has got him locked up before, had it been I got him arrested, I will be the third person to do that in that house.

I reported him to the caretaker, the guy told me that I should have hit him back, that nobody made him to be in charge of the house, that we are all tenants, at least he the caretaker was the one I paid the house rent to, that the guy only deceived me when I first met him, that he dare not call the landlord self, because the landlord has given him series of warnings, that the landlord has even locked him up before, it was people that begged on his behalf, that I should just ignore him. The next morning funny enough I still greeted this man, but he didn’t answer, from that day henceforth I began to ignore him, but the wife, when she is not with the husband, she greets me nicely and I do respond, even if she didn’t see me, I greet her first, but when the husband is there, she dare not, so as to avoid beating. But everyone begin to mind their own business.

Some few months later, I and my wife went to church that Sunday morning, before we came back, this man brought out one dilapidated cage that used to be beside the corner of the house fence and put it right on the spot where I do park my car, when I saw that, I was just smiling, I just jejely parked my car elsewhere in the compound, seems he want to start trouble again, he can eat the space, since he is jobless, early morning when everyone even including the wife are going out to look for one or two things to do so as to get money, you will find him under the tree at the street junction with like minds, arguing about politics that does not concern them. Had it been I know this guy to be this hostile, am not sure I would have paid for the accommodation, because I don't have the mind for trouble.

I told my wife, the day he will try that same rubbish he did by hitting me, even if my wife go ahead to call all my family members and hers to beg me, I won’t listen to them, I will definitely get him locked up, and really deal with him according to the law. I would have moved out of the house, but getting a nice accommodation like that is difficult around, so I have choose to ignore him, but the day he will cross my path again, I won’t take it likely with him.

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This op is a Bleep up king. Your story just vex me I swear. Try this rubbish in warri and see how people will help you beat him for free

Karleb:
Bros! You dey provoke me o!

You should have at least arrested the mutherfoker if you didn't have the liver of hitting him back. Why didn't you even hit back? There is no crime in that, it's called self-defense for God F**king sake!


Don't always listen to your wife, listen to yourself.

In fact u don't know regretful I was that I didn't hit him, I wish I did... When u are married, u don't just always listen to yourself alone, ur wife's view and opinion matters

madridguy:
Inside life, you made your first mistake when you made him sees himself as a demigold on a property you want to pay for with your hard earned money. You should have cleared him instantly.

Secondly, for you to have allowed him to be shouting your name anyhow is your biggest error. Had been am in your shoe, the first day he shout my name, i will frankly told him never to repeat such again. You dey do as if na free house you dey stay.

Baba as an Ijawman, my ancestors will disown me if I tolerate 0.5% of what OP is tolerating and nagging. Eh? Person go use Tonyebarcanista shine? Them never born that person well! Instead na me go use you shine! Eh, I don't even do neighbor - neighbor thing sef. I mind my business.

In my former apartment my landlord attempted one stunt on me (that he normally does with other tenants and get away with), omo I go station file case of theft, threat to life and attempted murder using thugs against am

Na so police find am go him house go arrest am. Him sleep 2 days for station. Na him brother wey be lawyer broker peace

I warn am say make him de look face o... Meanwhile, I was the youngest tenant among all the tenants.

Perfecttouchade:
u too calm like me but forget calmness, if person bring am hot abeg no let am cold be him collect but one thing about life is, one needs to be careful...many are lifeless just walking dead, make God no allow us jaam agbaako ..my advice is just leave the house before he gets on your nerves..that kind of man fit no get strength abeg just comot the house for the crazeman

Thanks , but am not leaving the house, he can go and kill himself, I don't care, all I know is that he just keep behaving himself as he is for now, else...

TonyeBarcanista:

Baba as an Ijawman, my ancestors will disown me if I tolerate 0.5% of what OP is tolerating and nagging. Eh? Person go use Tonyebarcanista shine? Them never born that person well! Instead na me go use you shine! Eh, I don't even do neighbor - neighbor thing sef. I mind my business.

In my former apartment my landlord attempted one stunt on me (that he normally does with other tenants and get away with), omo I go station file case of theft, threat to life and attempted murder using thugs against am

Na so police find am go him house go arrest am. Him sleep 2 days for station. Na him brother wey be lawyer broker peace

I warn am say make him de look face o... Meanwhile, I was the youngest tenant among all the tenants.

Lol, Meself I know say I messed up, I tot he is a human being ni

morgan100:


Smiles, u actually don't know what am cable of, I can really tolerate people, but when am pushed to the wall, guy make I just shot up

Baba, make I no use vex slap you o. You came face to face with ordinary cotenant you couldn't do anything but you want claim voltron on Nairaland. Abeg make we just respect ourselves because I de vex for you after reading your story.

If I be your padi and you tell me this kind story I go use bottle break your head before I say anything.

I go WhatsApp you through your siggy number! You need redeem your image

just4fun:
Guy, u really tried but ur Gentility is what is giving dis madman courage. Ignore him like other neighbours do. Dont give him attention. If other tenant have stayed despite his madness, u can also too. Worst to happen, pack out at d expiration of ur rent. Don't just give him DAT attention he is seeking.

I have ignored him, and he can't even try non sense with me again

morgan100:


Thanks , but am not leaving the house, he can go and kill himself, I don't care, all I know is that he just keep behaving himself as he is for now, else...

ok bro, just get him arrested if he brings up his wahala again, please do not engage in physical combat with him.. greetings to madam being the peace maker, u don't know how she might have saved u from any occurrence that day...my brother jeje laaye, if person sey him madt abeg leave for another person to handle him Bleep up ...

TonyeBarcanista:

Baba, make I no use vex slap you o. You came face to face with ordinary cotenant you couldn't do anything but you want claim voltron on Nairaland. Abeg make we just respect ourselves because I de vex for you after reading your story.

If I be your padi and you tell me this kind story I go use bottle break your head before I say anything.

I go WhatsApp you through your siggy number! You need redeem your image

baba leave bottle o

cRobo:
morgan100 , so you brought this our little issue to nairaland abi

You will meet me in the house

I won't say a word

lolz

Bros nawa for you o. A bloody tenant like you keeps dishing you bullsh*t and you kept your cool. It's good to be good o, but mix your goodness with little craze atimes to avoid see-finish. You enabled him, and he has come to accept he's the boss. Someone shouted your name, commanded you to come downstairs and you did like a nice guy you are. Bro you enabled him. If you had showed him a lil bit of madness, he would have stopped and respected you all along.

morgan100:


Lol, Meself I know say I messed up, I tot he is a human being ni

Baba you get good mind but see eh, as a man you shouldn't court trouble but when trouble comes your way, give it double. You for give am better blow for him eye and nose after him hit you then head straight to police station to get him arrested. You should never have sought opinion of anyone, not even your madam. My woman know me say I be madman for gbege area.

If you don't want to physically assault him, you should have still gone to station to arrest him and make sure he spends 3 days behind bars (personally I'd even tell the police to prosecute him for assault make him spend time for prison).

I didn't like how this story ended.

Maybe, I will just modify the story and make a cool novel out of it.

Thanks OP for giving me an idea to develop.

Extend my thanks too, to your troublesome caretaker.

Perfecttouchade:
baba leave bottle o

You no know say him don fall him hand for the area? You no know say even him madam go de see am as weakling? If he cannot defend himself how can he defend his family?

Please don't be too cool ok..
It doesn't pay much if you're a family man..
You don't need to be cool even to your children but just be understanding and responsible.
That man deserve your other side,
Please give it to him.

morgan100:

My wife was happy I didn't hit him back, not that I can't fight back, I was only respecting him initially because he was older than I do, and besides am not used to fighting unnecessarily, I only wanted to use the right means to deal with him, of which if I knew my wife won't allow me to arrest him, I would have hit mine back in a very hard way self, so not that I can't do anything.

bros my only appeal to you is that do not hit any body physically either this your mad nabour or anybody in this country called Nigeria, a lot of peoples in this country are walking dead. So the best option for you whenever he hit you or do anything you do not like, report him or get him arrested.