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AreaFada2:
All those rogue tenants, na thunder go fire their nyansh. In fact Na poverty go dey romance dem. Eternally.

They come with sweet mouth forming religious and nice. Only to begin giving excuses when contract renewal is due.

Some sign an undertaking with a lawyer to pay the money they owe when moving out. But they never pay.

When you want to deal with them legally people will say you are oppressing the poor.

Why can't he just forget about the money they will question.

Alot of tenants are very Stubborn.
They only pay their first rent promptly after that.. The drama starts

gowonmaharajah:
thunder fire every wicked landlord/lady.
our landlady made my mama shed hot tears,not because we owed her rent or something. she was just plainly wicked on her.that was the day I swore to build a big mansion for my mama
the landlady died 9 days after we moved outta her house.
let her goan chop her house in heaven

Sorry for that

Donraqh:
OP you mean you did all these in this COVID-19? Hmmm

No. It took place last year

tonididdy:
the house I inherited from my late father... there's this tenant in the house, I have given them more than 7 quit notice with court orders but they refused to leave.
the tenant told me to my face, " I dey this house before them born you"... so I just let them be, when them get rent, them call me... I go go take otherwise I dash them the rooms before


well out of the blue, they called me and said they had moved out of the house.

I went to see for myself and truly they had packed out. the room condition was an eye sore. they trained chickens right in their living room. some people Sha...

So you mean they ran out without paying rents

Catabolism:
Mine is with a fellow tenant with which we share same meter.The guy cooperated at first as we usually share the light bill after some months na me come dey pay sake of say I get new born baby.The guy comes in very late and leaves very early.Later , I move out as the guy became an incurable debtor owing house rent,security and nepa bills.

There are good tenants and there are very bad tenants.
The bad ones like accumulating debt.

okine4real:
i have about 8 tenants in one of mine house, they have refused to pay mine rent for about three years now. the rent is 70k per annum, room and parlor self contain. the worst is, this guys are giving birth in mine house. To even go to mine house self they tire me... Because of how tenants behave in ikorodu, i decided not to build there anymore. Most of the tenants always behaving has if they have not eating for years, when i ask for rent na story, but they are lucky because i live very far from the said house so i cant really deal with them.... i also have another structure there, someone is leaving there free of charge.... the person only helps in cleaning the compound, mine friend put them there so as to secure the compound. so because of the ikorodu experience, i decided to build another structure close to where i leave, i leave somewhere around Jibowu Lagos.. after building the house, i rented it for 450k per annum and 50k service charge...total is 500k. i made the rent so high so that, all those people when never chop would not near mine house. i tried as much as i can to make the house very beautiful. If there is know light for even a year, the house has a generator that would be used to pump water, i made it clear, i dont want to see aboki selling water to the tenants, any security light that gets burnt will be replaced by me, if the pumping machine gets spoil, it would be fixed by me,payment for lawma is included in the service charge also with payment for the woman sweeping the compound, that was the reason i charged them service charge. Every tenants minds there business, even one of mine tenants changed his car after moving in. the main reason most landlords have problem wit tenants is because most of the tenants done too tey for the house so they become Gods... after like 7 years, i will increase the rent to like 600k or more, depending on what is obtainable. And i will not want to give mine room and parlor self contain to married people.. Even if you want to get married, they would either park out or give birth to lesser children may be two kids or maximum 3 kids. the fact is tenants that have these kind of mind set is different from those once when know get money yet born like 5 children still bring him relation come the house. so strategically i placed come factors before renting mine house house. bad tenants more worst than bad wife. Also dont make your rent cheap, when your rent is 200k for two bed room flat in a place like Jibowu... even when the occupants are not working, they will be able to pay the rent because with two direct from baba IJEBU THEY WILL HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY YOUR RENT, mean while, two bed room flat new house is 800k in Jibowu. But the bad part is such kind of tenants cannot do repairs in your house, if there are major damage, the damage would be left undone, and once left undone, the damage would keep expanding.... Also landlord should try and get prepaid meters for tenants, its expensive but when installed in a house, it reduces rift between landlord and tenant.

cheera

I like your input.
Thats very smart of u

simplesearch:
Landlords should be able to understand the psychology of each tenant they absolve into their system over a period of six month to a year of close or distant interaction. Undesratsnding the psychology of discriminarion will enable a Landlord deal relatively well with each tenant without developing HBP, take for instance a guy who pay 300k per month when things were good but suddenly couldnt cope with such yearly renewal as a result of dwindling fortune, what stops a good landlord from availing them the opportunity to cut the payment to suit their present condition. I mean if they cant cough out the 300k they are use to paying but can afford 150k for the next six month why not, or if it's 3month at 75k this is good business even if its 25k per month this is still a good business the bulk will still end up in your pocket at the end of the day and you'll be fine for it, that way you would have helped your tenant to take the line of least resistant consitent with their present condition. Some tenant can comfortably pay 25k per month on 3-BR flat but may find it difficult to gather 300k at once to pay upfront especially when things are a little down for them, that's how it's done abroad. In otherword, forcing a tenant to adapt to a payment format that's at variance with their present financial condition places every landlord in that category on the debtors scale as they are compelling them to pay you upfront without recourse, and this unpatriotic behaviour requires Govt intervention to possibly formulate a policy that will accomodate monthly tenancy as obtain in dev. countrries. My counsel therefore to all Landlord is that, If your tenent default in their rent renewal rather than threaten them with fire and brimstone why not get familarise with their present condition and if need be allow them adopt a payment model that match their pocket at that point in time, and should things peak up for them and they choose to revert back to the old sysyterm of payment that would be a voluntary and personal decision. If this becomes a general practice between tenants and Landlords there'll no reason why both party won't be happy, and none will be unreasonable to play around each others intelligence. I didn't apportion blame on tenants in my write up because as a Landlord you make your tenant whatever he/she turn out to be by how well you handle them at the initial stage of defaulting.

I understand where you are coming from. We agree that there is financial issues.
But many tenants are stubborn. They sometimes want to use your simplicity as a advantage.
Some will tell u they will be paying bimonthly but still will be giving excuse.
I know of one who was complaining of rent money. It was just 30k per year but still went ahead and host wedding for his child.

melaninpop:
Many tenants are deliberately wicked. I have learnt from what happened to my father, to never have mercy on a tenant who cannot pay his rent. If you cannot pay.....please pack.

The painful part is that after the eviction you still loose some rent money

nasoeb:
Am currently skeptical in giving out one of mine because of issues like these. If you give to someone you know, some may/will turn around to take advantage of you, and if you give to thore you know nothing about, what then becomes of you.

Rule number 1 : do not hire who you can’t fire. Don't give your house to your close friends they will take advantage of you.
Rule number 2: don't be too jovial with your tenants. Once they are comfortable with you they will start taking advantage.

Nickshrapnel:
There was one dubious one who went to bypass the prepaid meter thereby attracting a N50k fine for me or the one who thought I had collected electricity/utilities bill with the house rent and so didn’t pay a dime until the expiration of his rent

I think the solution to the paying of nepa bill is to just include it in their rent.

afecgivers:
Warning!!! Some Tenants can kill landlord

I tell you

LaIabobo:
Tenants that'll owe and take you to court to delay time and stop their eviction after settling those broke magistrate court officials.

Tenants can be very Stubborn

gift2xl:
I dislike staying in the same compound with the landlord. With my first experience, before your rent expired they have collected the next rent money " I beg give me 20k, 50, 80, 100k I want go settle important issue I beg your my only hope, I decide never to stay in the same compound with landlords ".

Lol... Ok
Even though the topic is about tenants

manuel4real:
light Is a major problem amongst tenants as far as I am concerned, my mum had to buy prepaid meter for her tenants just to settle this matter.

E no reach 1-month see these guys go bypass the stuff

But there's this tenant a family actually, they packed into our house, the first year they paid 150k, that was August I think when time reach to renew rent, Na so so money no de we de hear for 2months till she finally paid. Before the next renewal she begged my mum to reduce the rent for her, that her husband does not do anything, she's the one taking care of everything in the family, my mum pitied her and removed 20k. when it was time to renew the rent story start again, firstly she paid 20k, in 3 months time she paid 50k, next 40k then 20k, Na so she pay house rent that year. But before she paid she informed my mum that her house needs maintenance, of which mumcy agreed to, unfortunately for her, something came up in her business and she needed lots of money to solve it, so she called this woman to explain to her, you need to see how this woman reacted, she didn't want to hear her out, she just hanged the call then call my brother and started shouting at him that she doesn't like such nonsense talk, saying all sorts of rubbish, the husband collected the phone and started shouting too saying he's a prince in his village and so on. Mehn, their statement angered my mum and she decided she won't maintain anything again, that if the house is no longer convenient for them, they should pack out when their rent expires.


Some people can be so ungrateful in this life

Yea true

His statement is contradicting.
Our politicians like making ambigious statement so that they can later claim innocence.

obicoolnino:
To shit and not flush the toilet based on face me I slap u compound, some people are pigs.

Lol i wonder how some people can be this way

Never had of them before.
More info is needed about them
Meanwhile, do they mean a 70year old will still be eligible for the job

Jacqueline22:
My own is that my tenant won’t, sweep, burn dirty, the guys smokes weed so tey me mk I no Dey smoke start Dey high.
the thing is that the tenant are much older than me.. if I talk I will start feeling guilty as if I’m insulting them.
There is one that is very manipulative this lady want to know every details about me...
Should I go on?

Yes pls

Kalatium:
One of our tenant has been refusing to pay money for rent. When we disturbed him too much, he said he will pay the money. After two days he said they lost 1 of their relatives and going for burial so they left the house. Little did we know that it was all a plan. He made his Wife and children to stay in her parents home. Meanwhile he usually sneak back in the night to come and stay in his room and then woke up early morning and leave. We later Caught him after some weeks. He promise to pay the money and even brought witness to sign an agreement. But he still ran away and refuse to pay the money.

Lol some tenants want to play sense for their landlords and end up getting Caught.

How comes suddenly almost every news i hear this day is about rape. It seems every news have season.

moyosore32:
back in school, I rented a one room apt, the landlady was jovial at first meeting... then after few months of settling down she begin to show me her landlady effect, she basically fought me for everything I did in the house ranging from playing music, extravagant electricity fee and the lots, I was always prepared for her anyways, it got to a point she invited her eldest son to come over and fight me, and me don blow kush Wella that night before getting home, as I dey try enter my crib naso the boy block me say him mama report me to am and he's here tonight to teach me a lesson for disrespecting his mom, Chai naso my head spark, na me first blow am sef I just dey boil, dey rain punches for all him face and head, I beat am so tey he tear race and went outside to break bottle... me keh i no even fear I went to the backyard, mesef find better bottle break am the thing form better shape naso the woman rush go stand for her son front say b4 I stab her pikin mk I first stab her so that pple go know say na me stab her and her son... neighbors came and interfered so I just vex go sleep my friend house that night and didn't come back for some days... on the day I went back home that's how they went to bring one elderly Awori man who pleaded with me to forget the matter, naso I just gboju, several days after the landlady called me into her room and started crying saying me I was threatening her in her own house say after my rent elapse she won't collect another from me say mk I pack comot, yinmu pesin wey I know say she like money, I planned with my babe to go and plead with her which we later did and she accepted, even on that day her son that I fought came by and I just use maturity buy am 1bottle mk he for no reason the matter anymore... I spent all my entire time in that house till I grad

You sef Stubborn o

Robnectar:
the ones that don't like paying Nepa bill, anytime you go meet them, they will be behaving like they don't understand the language u speaking

You remind me of another Stubborn tenant. He refused to pay Nepa bill and anytime Nepa cut their wire, he will send his children to go and buy wire and they will join the light again. Their bill became 200k, despite we telling them to pay they refuse, saying no money.

Davash222:
OP, I wonder why you were persuading and forcing your dad to evict the man. The man dey follow you drag your girl
Oga landlord, travel and see.

The thing affected me in school.
My dad always complaining there is no money

damyslim:
Can’t forget the day I bleeped my land-lady mehn that wan sweet for back and front. Can’t wait to see her again once am done with my nysc service

Bad guy

Goalnaldo:
Lol at OP. Why are you always attracting landlords that like using your personal property

That is What i don't know

Ipromote:
One landlady wanted to know everything I was doing. Even the color of my boxers!!


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Hahhaha

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Come and share Your story here lets discuss

Modified:

Pls we need to understand that the relationship between a tenant and a landlord is not of friendship but a business relationship.
Landlords require that payment of rent should be made as at due and like obedience from their tenants.
Remember that the landlord is handling a business, He or she is a business owner and you are a customer. It is not of the landlord in his right senses to maltreat his tenant intentionally.
There are good tenants who try their best to pay their bills and do what is right.

I also understand that their are bad landlords that try to exploit their tenants and their are bad tenants that are disrespectful and don't pay their rents. There are some bad Landlords but Many bad tenants. This is the exception not the rule.
Let us try to settle the differences and leave as one.
Some tenants are landlord somewhere while some landlords are tenants somewhere.

Regards.

What is Your Worst Experience with a Tenant?

As there are terrible experiences with landlords there are also terrible experiences with tenants. Today i will like to share a worst experience with a tenant.

My dad happens to be a landlord so we have met alot of tenants.

There was a stubborn tenant that rented a 3 bedroom flat worth 300k. He told my dad he will pay 250k now when he has the remaining he will pay. That's when the notoreity started. The tenant refused to pay the 50k, despite my dad's constant reminder.

When his rent expires he said he will soon pay that he needs more time, that he wants to pay everything at once. The next time my dad ask him, he said he is in financial crises all this was while i was in school. When i came back for end of semester break i still heard that the man hasn't paid his rent. I began pressuring my dad to collect this rent, the tenant has spent over 5months without paying a dime. My dad said the man lost his uncle and went for burial recently. Thats when i realize he has been given excuse to my dad for a very long time.

After sometimes i told my dad not to allow the man stay one more month without paying. My dad threaten to bring the police and take him to court. The man blocked my dad number, then my dad called him with another number when he picked and discover it was my dad he claim he didnt see my dad's initial call that he was sick. The man then switched off his phone.

We decided to go to meet the man together with a lawyer but he was not around. I placed a 2month notice and that he must pay for the months he has stayed in the house. After a week the man called with a new number pleading that he should not be evicted. He asked for my dad's account number so that he will pay. The man send 50k only. My dad told him he just completed his last year rent and will have to pay for the current year. The man refused. After the two months my dad changed the door lock thereby preventing him from getting inside even though his stuffs are inside.

After a month, a woman from the Neighborhood told my dad that the man we evicted is still living in the house. He usually comes in late at around 11-12pm and goes out around 7am. The next day we arrived there few minutes past 6 but the man has already gone. We discover that he changed the lock to the house. We end up confiscating all his properties and emptied his room. Till today he is yet to be found.

I have others stories about other tenants but i will love to hear your story. Over to you.

What is your worst experience with a tenant?

Ngenge:
1. He refused to give me the key of the gate after receiving my first rent.
2. He doesn't go to church
3. He rarely goes to his village. If he does, he comes back before 4pm. He claims to be a chief
4. If you don't buy from his shop, he grumbles
5. He monitors your movements. He will like to be told where you are going or coming from
6. He insults/gossip about you in your absence
7. He is too selfish even to his immediate family. Three of his five kids are married but he stays alone until his wife joined him from Cameroon.
8. Every year (since 2018), he brags that he is rich and 68 years old
9. He takes joy in seeing one struggling
10. He wants to be worshipped by his tenants by running errands for him whether it is convenient for you or not
11. He connected the sumo pump with his deep freezer, making it difficult for us to have water when EEDC restores light
12. He hardly pays complete electric bill
13. He wants us to pay more bills than the one due for the month.
His murmurings are many

This your landlord is a thug

Its not ok...
Bt Ladies love Visiting unannounced inorder to catch the guy Cheating lol

Pravedk:
My former house, the landlord was a very cool guy. He inherited the house but dude was very kind. I left because I moved to a neighborhood with good light. But this my landlord money matter no be here. The guy initially collected rent from two of us, luckily for him when we dey put fire on top his head another tenant was about packing.

The man will just call you in the morning tell you NEPA don bring bill, him no dey ever gree show us the bill. Las Las na last month, the man wife send girl make them collect 6months advance for water bill. When did water board start to collect bill in advance?

Hahaha see me see wahala