BarrElChapo:


Unfortunately folks like you are those that shout "lawyers are liars" around town. He made his input you've refused to see any logic in it, do any extra research about it, placed a call or two to any other lawyer. You just started attacking the man and the Nigerian Legal System.
No one is a encyclopedia of knowledge but that you pay your rent or live in a Lagos or where ever for that matter does not give you the temerity to attack a person who is licenced to practice law anywhere in Nigeria.
Besides that jargon you put in bracket above cannot be interpreted in the eyes of the law. It is nonsense.

brownsugardr:
My Landlord Is Intimidating Me And Wants To Evict Me Before My Rent Expires

I paid my house rent for one full year on 18/04/2019. My rent is due to expire on 17/04/2020.

But my Landlord is insisting it expired on 17/03/2020. Which is Eleven months. I have tried explaining to him but he wants to lock me out unless I pay immediately.

Please how do I get redress.

YngDenzel1:
He's right. I have witnessed it myself.

BarrElChapo:


Unfortunately folks like you are those that shout "lawyers are liars" around town. He made his input you've refused to see any logic in it, do any extra research about it, placed a call or two to any other lawyer. You just started attacking the man and the Nigerian Legal System.
No one is a encyclopedia of knowledge but that you pay your rent or live in a Lagos or where ever for that matter does not give you the temerity to attack a person who is licenced to practice law anywhere in Nigeria.
Besides that jargon you put in bracket above cannot be interpreted in the eyes of the law. It is nonsense.

Vortex369:


Your Landlord is right, and you are wrong.

18/4/2019 to 17/3/2020 is exactly 12 months.

Bluehill1051:
Calculate it hourly, you'll have a clearer picture. You seem educated enough.

Olas16198901:
Your landlord or landlady is correct.
We've 12months, so from April to March is a year, if it's April to April is over one year and a month. You can't calculate how you celebrate your birthday with that, all calculation are different.

Once you paid your landlord, your money has been counting or else if there's any issue concerning what you paid for.

Next time don't argue with your landlord, you knew that you paid him April previous year then tell him that you would pay him. By April-May pay him then tell him you're sorry, indirectly you've satisfy your self by paying April to April. Chikena

kaludestiny10:
As a batch C 2014 youth corp member, we started our orientation camp on the 4th of November 2014 and we rounded up our service on the 3rd of October 2015, which is exactly 1 year. A year is January to December and not December to December.
So your landlord is correct.

Bonjovi13:
I am a lawyer called to the bar in 2008.I have been practicing law for 12 years now. I am shocked at the level of ignorance exhibited by some folks here even after being corrected.
Under the Nigerian tenancy laws, a year is 365 days ie 12 calendar months. The OP paid for 1 year which makes him a yearly tenant.
A yearly tenancy expires on the eve of the anniversary of the tenancy.In this case the OP's tenancy became operational on the 18th of April,2019. The tenancy therefore terminates without more on the eve of the anniversary of the tenancy which is 17th of April 2020.
That is complete 365 days or 12 months.
Even if he paid on the 29th of March the law will take the last 2 days of the month into cognisance in detemining the computation of 365 days.
Any other calculation is erroneous.He is entitled to pay his rent latest 17th of April, 2020.

Now if he does not pay by that date, his tenancy expires on the basis of effluxion of time. If he holds over without paying after that date he becomes a tenant at will and is entitled to 7 days quit notice.His landlord still has to go to court to apply for a notice of owner's intention to recover possession.

However where by reason of the tenancy agreement the tenant pays on or b4 the expiration of his tenancy, the tenancy continues and remains extant for another year that is assuming he still pays for 1 year.

I hope this settles the controversy. If you argue after this then you have a special bed space reserved for in Timbuktu.Dont mention pls

stello:


April - March is one full year. So he is right

Bonjovi13:
I am a lawyer called to the bar in 2008.I have been practicing law for 12 years now. I am shocked at the level of ignorance exhibited by some folks here even after being corrected.
Under the Nigerian tenancy laws, a year is 365 days ie 12 calendar months. The OP paid for 1 year which makes him a yearly tenant.
A yearly tenancy expires on the eve of the anniversary of the tenancy.In this case the OP's tenancy became operational on the 18th of April,2019. The tenancy therefore terminates without more on the eve of the anniversary of the tenancy which is 17th of April 2020.
That is complete 365 days or 12 months.
Even if he paid on the 29th of March the law will take the last 2 days of the month into cognisance in detemining the computation of 365 days.
Any other calculation is erroneous.He is entitled to pay his rent latest 17th of April, 2020.

Now if he does not pay by that date, his tenancy expires on the basis of effluxion of time. If he holds over without paying after that date he becomes a tenant at will and is entitled to 7 days quit notice.His landlord still has to go to court to apply for a notice of owner's intention to recover possession.

However where by reason of the tenancy agreement the tenant pays on or b4 the expiration of his tenancy, the tenancy continues and remains extant for another year that is assuming he still pays for 1 year.

I hope this settles the controversy. If you argue after this then you have a special bed space reserved for in Timbuktu.Dont mention pls

flokii:
@OP your landlord is right while you are wrong.

A calendar year is January - December not January - Jamuary

If you paid rent in April 2019, you next rent will be in March 2020.

Birthdays are different for those using beer parlour logic above.

Vortex369:


You need to learn simple arithmetic. How can you not know that April to April is 13 months and March to March is 13 months.

You are hereby promoted to kindergarten.

Aksegzy:
April to April makes it 13 month
Your landlord is right

Aystarz:
Chai NLanders Don cast oo. So most of una still dey live with your parents! Because if una dey pay rent, you go know say the Op's Landlord is in the right. The Op probably too never rented an apartment before until recently.

femi4:
18/04/2019-18/05/2019.....1month
18/05/2019-18/06/2019.....2months

Count like that
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18/02/2020-18/03/2020.......12months

carbon1224:




Your rent expires 17/03/2020 and he is correct and there is more to this. That’s exactly 12month

uzoma213:
yes you are right, 18/4/2019---18/4/2020 is 13 months.

But 18/4/2019---17/4/2020 is 12months(365days).

AllforJesus7:


Are you saying he moves in in April but will not pay the rent for April?

This is too simple a maths to stress oneself over but I guest I have to do this right now.


His rent covered the following months below;

April 19
May 19
June 19
July 19

Aug 19
Sept 19
Oct 19
Nov 19

Dec 19
Jan 20
Feb 20
March 20


There you have it. 12 months ends in March.

He moved into the house in April and has to pay the rent for April so you start counting from April.


I hope you fully understand now.

Good luck.

femi4:
Continue displaying your ignorance

Ed12:


January to December makes a year.

And not January to January!

Grace001:
Your landlord is correct with the date calculation... so bro start looking for money to pay him... but you can still give you landlord eviction ask me how

freeman500:
According to some people's calculation
18/4/2019 - 17/3/2020 =1year
That means his next rent will be
17/3/2020 - 16/2/2021
And next one
16/2/2021 - 15/1/2022
Clearly the landlord is wrong.

Opus85:


If you pay money or enter a property, it does not count on that. What matters is the terms (date) on the tenancy agreement, where the date of the tenancy agreement being created, term of tenancy (begining and expiration date) amount of rent paid are explicitly stated while the landlord/landlady is mandated to issue you a copy alongside a receipt evidencing payment of rent and the terms (date) stated clearly.


So if you went to lodge in an hotel, when does your time start to count isn't immediate you pay and enter, except booking ahead of a particular time or period. So if you pay for house rent your money start to count or if there's any challenges on what you paid for it won't count. Properties agencies count base on English calendar not the birth calendar. They count in 12months not 13months, January to December is a year that we all knew right, we can't say January to January a year. Get it right bro