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olumzzz:
Start by scanning the car.
Also, check its service history or you can use the VIN to check. Look out for when last oil, ATF and belt was changed.

Dozieson:
Use mobile 1 5w 30 for engine oil service.

Please don't touch your gear box oil. Just try and check if it is guage. This done when the car is running in park.

Scan the car for codes
Check coolant level and use the recommended original coolant if it is low

Klass99:
@ The bolded, yipee!

You ought to have butterflies in your stomach from the excitement of a new home, new location and a geographical fresh start in 2022.

This update makes me smile, I think it's because of my preceding sentence. New beginnings excite me.

Get to the area first and we'll see nah , but be warned, the traffic is legendary!

I'm doing very well, thank you.

Assumptabeke:
You work in Ikoyi and you want to reside in Sangotedo?....Why not move to areas like Sabo Alagomeji, Yaba or even Onike. Transport will be cheaper and you're less likely to experience traffic on your way to and back from the office. You can even get a 2/3 bedroom apartment within your rent budget.

sisisioge:
Hmmmm....oga, Sangotedo to Ikoyi travel traffic is not a child's play. Better leave sentiments and rent out the place. By the time you do it for 6 months, you will grow older in looks than your years.

You could change the size of your accommodation to a much affordable one while you continue to service your loan.

You could change jobs to somewhere around Sagotedo so you could live in the house.

You could spend the whole 1.2m for a mini flat in Ikoyi so you could have much shorter travel time to/fro work to improve your quality of time and give you more time to think of doubling your hustle.

Whatever you do.....Sangotedo to Ikoyi travel shouldn't be done everyday biko. Do not forget your physical and mental health matter while pursuing your daily bread. Good luck.

ThaRealist:
. You and @klass99 should set up a date or a dinner ...that's if you guys are still single ... You never know , because you guys seem to compliment each other in your response and aura ..my two cents

Klass99:
We've heard you, matchmaker extraordinaire .

@ BornToSucced, what did you finally decide to do on this matter?

Klass99:
Are you serious? My bad! I saw start up and my mind instantly went to a company in its infant stage.

Pls whatever you decide las las, don't rent out your new house without living in it first, especially a house you own.

Some tenants are a real nightmare, by the time your house reverts to you after their tenancy, you will weep and spend a ton repairing the damage they've left behind.

Klass99:
@ Born2Succeed, I thought I saw you say somewhere that you are a start-up.

So, I'm guessing you own the business and you are the boss. If that's right no let me wooze you slap through this phone

If you are the boss, then a lot of things are within your control and you can manage the traffic along that axis better than those of us working the 9-5.

I know a civil engineer who runs his own business and lives around Abraham Adesanya, the guy manages his time and movement so well that he is hardly caught up in the peak hours of brutal traffic.

He times his exits from home and work at very appropriate hours. He may still jam traffic as that is very typical of Lagos but it won't be the mad rush hour traffic.

If my guess is right (about you being the boss) move into your house and make things work with the traffic, while you invite us for the house warming party.

bukatyne:
The English would not be sweet but:

My big bros, na high-five with klass for traffic sure pass

truthsayer009:
Brotherly, I don't understand the people advising you out of ignorance or is it that people just love suffering. Why on earth will you move from Ogudu to Sangotedo? When you want to make a decision, use facts and stop depending on emotional responses from people who want you to suffer as they are suffering.

Two ways to confirm decisions like this

- Open your Google map on a regular Monday and check the distance by road and traffic situations between Sangotedo to Ikoyi, then compare it to Agodu. You will find out that you made a grave mistake.

- Choose a specific Monday & Friday, take a cab from Ikoyi to Sangotedo, try this twice in a week and sleep over in a hotel at Sangotedo, your eyes will open.

After doing this, whatever decision you decide is left to you.

Edit: Since you actually purchased the apartment as I just read, then you need no advice. You are suppose to move in, irrespective of the traffic situations since the house is yours. If it was a rented apartment, it would have been a terrible choice.

bukatyne:
On a serious note, you need to do trade offs at this point:

What is more important to you? For instance if:
1. Your job has a strict resumption time (hello bank);
2. If your job is not flexible i.e. you cannot do it at home so you have to finish for the day before leaving the office;
3. If your job requires you available anytime (including weekends)

You would consider trading off space & resources for proximity

If:
1. The above doesn't apply or you can work around it;
2. You have other projects where the space is paramount;
3. You cannot afford rent + monthly deposits for Sangotedo

You would consider trading off proximity for space & resources

I wish you all the best.

bukatyne:
Brother mi, hi-five pelu klass ninu traffic lo sure ju

bukatyne:
But you can get a smaller apartment cheaper than your current rent.

Except you use all three rooms?

bukatyne:
1. Why do you have a three bedroom apartment as a single man? That's what I need for myself and the fact that I hope to settle down soon.

2. If traffic is/was a concern, you wouldn't think of relocating to Sangotedo; that's frying pan to fire. I know.

3. I rather buy a house to live in or resell than rent. Except you want it as a steady income for life. If you want to rent the Sangotedo house, then negotiate with your landlord or more to a room and parlour (more advised). Thanks.

4. If you want to do Sangotedo, then get ready for the serious traffic to & fro, the wear & tear on your body and car, quality of life, productivity etc. You scared me. I will look into this before making a final decision.

Goodluck.

cococandy:
Threads like this tickle me because I’m mentally trying to imagine what the distance is, this one everybody is shaking head for you.

OP I want to ask why didn’t you purchase the apartment in an area closer to your job but I suppose I already know what the answer is.

Anyway congratulations and good luck.

Consider that you would need to be paying back the loan on the apartment while also paying rent if you choose to live somewhere else. Look at your finances and decide accordingly.

Klass99:
Yes, but not Sangotedo precisely. Before Sangotedo

Klass99:
I just saw your last post where you said you bought the house first of all congratulations, secondly pls move into your house and weather the storm of traffic.

If you time your exit right, from your house and the office traffic won't be so brutal. Better still park your car one side and start joining the staff bus to minimize the wear and tear on your body (if your office offers that perk and you don't mind)

The people living there haven't quenched yet , but traffic on the Lekki - Ajah axis (from Chevron downwards) is unusually heavy because of the road construction by LASG.

frozen70:
If you are ready to leave home by 4am daily, including the risk, and you will save some money from the rent in sango
Calculate all together. If you are not saving up to 200k by relocating to Sango.
Just remain in Ogudu and look for houses around the neighborhoods

Living in a cheap house or area, paying more on transport is not a good idea

Besides, you didn't mention if you are a family man with children or not

Kobojunkie:
You didn't bother to check this before you rented a place in the area?

Kajaard:
You want to live in Sangotedo and continue your work in Ikoyi? I laugh in swahili. I hope you are ready for the stress from traffic and the ill health both physically and mentally that will occur?

You better renew your Ogudu rent or look for a cheaper accommodation on the mainland.

Biglittlelois:
Must you live in a 3 bedroom flat if you are not a married man with kids?

There are cheaper houses at Lekki for a room and parlour, go for it.

yomi007k:
You have the following options;

1. Pay N.1.2 millon for the 3BR in Ogudu.

2. Move to Sangotedo and readjust your life with the traffic situation.

3. Move to a cheaper apartment type in Ogudu e.g 1 BR,2BR.

4. Make more money.