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MrOkenwa:
Hello Sirs, happy Independence Day.
I have these enquiries regarding renting out a property through an agent/property lawyer.
1) On first rent, which other charge(s) is the landlord entitled to receive, aside from the basic rent?
2) On subsequent rents, what percentage would the agent deduct from the basic rent before paying the landlord?
3) How can the landlord curb the agents from charging potential tenants exorbitantly?
Can somebody please highlight important points that should be included in a tenancy agreement.

twinskenny:
good day sir depending on the number of cameras from 150k upward

twinskenny:
good day sir depending on the number of cameras from 150k upward

n3xt:
No na

At your height and the imposed load, your stanchions, tie beams, top beams and bracings will still provide the much needed support. So there’s no cause for alarm.

The post is just to enlighten us that there’s always a better way.

I used to work on Telecommunication Masts so I understand a lot about how steel towers are/should be built.

Going forward, we should always try to pay attention to most of the decommissioned mast/steel tower and collapsed steel structures to see how they’re built and their support braces. Most failures aren’t all substandard materials.

twinskenny:
Good morning all

Footstradamus:
"You must be a brave soul"

Those are your words not mine, why does one require bravery to live in a place if that place is not considered a war zone or should i wait till you spell it out??

Footstradamus:
Have you visited the north before? Reading your views on the north here one might think there is a war ongoing and bodies litter the streets.

Kaduna, Kano etc are one of the most peaceful and pocket friendly places to live in. I left the North in 2018 to take up a better offer in the south south and frankly i feel more in danger here than i ever did when i was working in Kaduna. Nassarawa is super peaceful

Even Maiduguri metropolis is quite calm. I visited in late 2017 and still have friends and family living there.

Last last death comes to us all so don't really get the trepidation

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EgunMogaji2:
I hear you loud and clear. Lots of reaching around goes on in Nigeria over real estate sales. Hyper overhyping

In the USA we have MLS where all the active real estate listings and sales are listed on. With this a good Realtor will be able to calculate going prices for property in an area in any corner of the USA. Things like closeness to fire station, school district rating, public transport, shopping, etc go in to factor the going $ per square foot. In Nigeria I haven't found this. No one knows. I'm selling a property in Ijebu Ode as an example and all I have to go by i just intuition.

So me I don't participate in that tomfoolery I just go out to the suburbs and buy land in wholesale. [b]I've never bought any land over N500K in Nigeria and I use that as a baseline. Some plots I bought in Elebu, Ibadan for N500K are now selling for N6.5M. [/b]These are facts that I know first hand.

As always. What I post is not a bible, just my opinion and doesn't mean its the only way.

EgunMogaji2:
I'm still going to do it. Even if I have to ask the invitation from Shekau himself.

n3xt:
#HarmlessPost

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rotecch77:
Yea
Here is Kano

EgunMogaji2:
Oopsssiee.. I’ve done gone and quoted by mistake

Egun “Likes To Run With Scissors” Mogaji

n3xt:
Let me share with you how we decide the number of bathroom in a house.

valencia2012 already shared one few pages back https://www.nairaland.com/2550211/general-topic-thread-to-discuss-anything/1635#94140563

There’s an open space on my gate/generator house which I had no plans for.
On a particular occasion, we had a party and some guys found their way to roof top to groove and enjoy themselves.

Getting to the roof top, one of the guys told me “Bros, I think you should have a toilet and a very high rail here o so that when we are charged up we won’t be jumping from the rooftop to the ground or peeing on people downstairs.”

If making everyone comfortable is my goal then that advice sounds novel - even though it’s coming from the high one.

The big question remains how many time do I throw such party? Do I really need it? Will the house still be functional without it?

omanzo02:
I happen to live where things are regulated and classified with common sense, so I have seen both side and all choice are not free sometimes beyond the maximum.

While you are free to spend your money as you want an extravagant plan beyond the classified requirement will be thoroughly scrutinized and 99% chance it would be rejected. I have learnt a lot in Nigeria and other part of the world to guide my judgement.

Like @true2home once wrote here: If a tenant is too big for what I have to rent, they are way too big to be a renter, I always advise them to go build their own house.
That philosophy is GENIUS!

omanzo02:
That architect has an experience of more than 37 years and runs a generational architecture bureau with a legacy of 148 years, go figure it out.

I know you may struggle to see the overkill in it.....there are smarter ideas to guarantee family privacy, you don't need to ensuite both rooms to achieve that.
I still maintain a 2 bedroom apartment does not need anything more than 2 toilets (family and visitors) and 1 bathroom.

Edited.

spyder880:
No he didn't halt the pictures, work is still going on. The Oga is really bold, he told me he cannot build the normal Nigerian style.

spyder880:
Decking the open spaces.......

uncleteeh:
There are lots of approaches to designing openable burglar proofs.
They could be in form of sliding, roller shutter and so on.
This is an innovation we have to inculcate in Nigeria.
fire accident too rampant.

lastpage:
I recall we discussed this "openable burglar-proof" about four years ago (around 2016 or thereabout) and you wanted to show me what you came up with but issues then, created a digression!

I also brain-stormed and came up with something that is working for me.
You should see the eyes of my Fabricator when the thing finally went into use, from his initial "oga, just put padlock and use key to open it in an emergency".
I was like you wont even find the key and if you found it, you wont be calm enough to operate such Key-Padlock, in a fire emergency.

It has three Solid Steel Hinges on one side (sturdiness), then their is a drop down, 7.5ft 16mm Rod at the other swing end that ends in a latch which requires "lifting it up and turning it 180-degrees, for it to allow the window to open.
It is carefully balanced and springed, to ensure even a young boy of three years can open it from the inside.
The thing is, the latch is almost at ground level inside the Room and any hand or tool cant operate it from outside, except from the inside (you wont have the leverage in terms of space, reach, angle and even effort/power to operate the latch at its fulcrum, from the outside.


This "bi-folding" Nets from you is also of interest to me! It would make removing and cleaning them easier, for one
It never occured to me before, to try and make it Bi-Folding, instead of the usual slide-over types l have. Now l have to start thinking about it and implement it soon.
What about allowing the Foldable/non-foldable net attach to the Swing Burglar proof so that when that moves, it moves along with it?
Just a thought.

I am happy that this thread is returning to its initial mentality of churning out ideas and helping others in need of what to do and how to do it.
Kudos to those Engineers, Builders, Contractors, Surveyors, Architects, Electricians, Installers, etc that have given their time and shared their knowledge on this thread, you may never know but the good and kindness you have showed to others here, will somehow come back to you in many folds, where and in ways you least expect it.


Lastpage!

Pascal2016:
Imo State, along Owerri Onitsha Road, Mbaitoli.Thats the location of the land.

bebe2:
wow, thats an eye opener.
its obviously a tenants market in nigeria.

80pc of 2 bedroom flats in the uk only have 1 toilet and bathroom.

BrabusNG:
There are good Nigerians doing great stuffs.

I spent my weekend working on openable burglar proofs and bi-folding nets. It was a great explore as we try to bring the outdoor inside without security compromise.

mufutau55:
My last project was a 7 bedrooms duplex and they are all ensuite plus a Visitor's toilet downstairs. It's all based on choice. No Architect can convince me otherwise because that is what I want. May be overkill but not for me, that is what is called personal choice. But in my rented houses, of course not.

Hajji M.

rotecch77:
You are right sir,there product are more expensive