₦airaland Forum

Vacation rentals is becoming the preferred choice for vacation or getaway. Whether you rent out a furnished room or a luxury villa on a short term or long term basis, you must have encountered troublesome clients that either flaunted the house rules or left the premises with some of your items. How do you deal with such situation?

Remember it is unethical to install secret cameras in shortlets irrespective of the worth, hence it isn't easy monitoring what goes on in your home or how people toy with your investment.

The answer is two words - Security Deposit.

A security deposit is a one-time, refundable sum of money a vacation rental owner requires a renter to pay in addition to the total booking rent. You can think of it as insurance against unpredictable tenants.

As a vacation home rental host, you get bookings from different people you don’t know, referred to you from vacation rental websites you list your property on. Even though these websites try as much as possible to verify the identity of the guests prior to move-in, there is no assurance as to how careful, responsible and/or tidy they may be.

What happens when the host realizes a renter broke some items or mistakenly left with certain objects from the property? And the renter is nowhere to be reached? Huh! How many of such situations can the host handle?

Why Collect Security Deposit?
There have been cases of renters fleeing a vacation home with some of the appliances and in some cases, renters leave the owner with damages to take care of after check out. Security deposit is your insurance against such renters. A security deposit assures you that a renter will be motivated to take care of your property like his own and abide by the rules of the property (if they want their security deposit refunded at the end of their stay). The security deposit also gives you rest of mind that whatever damages caused or by the renters or certain missing items will be taken care of with the money.

My questions now are:
Who pays for security deposit?
What's the best way to pay security deposit?
When does my security deposit gets returned?
How much is the standard amount to ask as security deposit?
All the answers to these questions can be found in this writeup : Useful Tips on Security Deposit and Vacation Rentals

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS TO APPLY
Passport Personal Details Scan
Last Page of Passport (if applicable)
Applicant Photo
Airline Confirmation
Birth Certificate of Minor (if applicable)

Have you been sorted out yet? If not, I'll categorically tell you that there is no such clause when applying for the UAE evisa. If you are interested, I can have it done for you. You also need to UAE Health Declaration

I have my cap in hand for you man. Best post I have read on nairaland in the past few years.

Kokaine:
Honestly speaking, the younger generation is not to be blamed. We led the way. They only followed. The so called shortcuts started when their futures were sabotaged by greedy leaders. The writing was clear on the wall that no one would care for their future If they decided to follow the long cut. They saw you starve their poor parents and kill them with SARS without justice just because they were poor and didn't have a voice. They saw how poverty was a stamp on hard working fellow and how connection was the only way to get going.

People who spent six years reading medicine definitely followed the long cut. But what do we see today? Doctors on strike over poor government attention, so bad that UK and Saudi Arabia have seen Nigeria as a harvesting ground for doctors. The ones who followed the long cuts, the government failed them. Its a moral wrong to stand before these youths who met the ridiculous state of affairs in this country, and address them about shortcuts. The address should be made to the older generation who had no foresight to see that corruption won't stop at them, it will get worse.

Younger generations always develop on what they find the older ones doing. So a generation found the old phone called land lines, they developed it to smart phones. They found old houses, they developed it to smart homes. In Nigeria they found corruption, cheating, stealing, mockery of leadership, they are developing it to ritual killings.

There are no role models to follow. All the role models are broke and live in squalor, while the thieves are celebrated. Who will the younger ones emulate? Tell me!

Is it that senator dancing everyday on the TV with sport cars and Bugatti? Or their maths teacher who had a first class and didn't get a job, and brings new general maths textbook to class inside nylon bag with his pink okrika shirt and grey bogus trouser? Or is it the physics teacher that is earning 20k monthly and cannot even afford a clean haircut? Or the huslter who couldn't pay medical bills for his sick parents or kids and they died? Its easy to sit in the lofty comfort of your hone with a secure efcc salary and be telling the youths what to do. And then you go back and collect bribe from another person. We casted the society. They are the victims. What hope has a Nigerian compared to an American kid? We should bow our heads and hide our faces in shame and disgust when addressing the youths, we should be apologising to them.

What do they learn in the university? Old syllabus that's expired and cannot be reformed to fit in today's world? The same Nigerian kids that go abroad and fly in excellent colours. People with 2.2 will go abroad for masters and be the best graduating student. Companies in america will fly the Nigerian flag for weeks because of the outstanding performance of one Nigerian staff. Are they the problems or the victims? You tell me where the corruption and ineptitude hasn't touched? Is it in the insecurity in this country? Or management of public funds? Or the constantly plummeting naira to dollar? Or the national debt that is increasing with a geometric trajection? Tell me where lies the hope of an average hustler!

My heart goes out to every body doing a legit hustle in Nigeria. God will see us through one day.

Freebies can be expensive a times, be wise brother.

More pics

See pics for better descriptions.
Leather seats, 95000 mileage, button start, less than 3 months old. Lagos cleared and registered.
Asking price 8.5M.
Contact me: 09055454423