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Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by mfm04622: 2:49pm On Mar 11, 2021
OhiOfIhima:
Maybe at your place but in Lagos, it is a different ball game.

I was born and bred in Lagos! So where is my place?

Although i don't presently live in Lagos, there is no law anywhere in the world that gives you the right to live in someone's house for free! None!

What usually happens is that the landlord is tired of the tenant and is willing to give up his rents as long as the tenant vacate the property for him! All you are entitled to as a yearly tenant is 6 months notice. The law does not say you should not pay rent in that period! In fact, if you jam a landlord that have your time, you will lose a lot more than the rent you want to steal from him

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Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by abbey621(m): 6:21pm On Mar 11, 2021
WibusJaga:


Now, if this tenant starts looking for house now & finds a suitable house this month & decides to pack, will the landlord refund his balance 5 month's rent?

By right, the 6-month quit notice is supposed to start from the day his present rent expires, but the problem is that most tenants abscond with the rent arrears.

I advise the tenant to start looking for house now & if he finds a suitable house b4 the end of his current rent, the Landlord should refund the balance rent.

Which right? Which law? In Lagos, it can come anytime even after one month, what matters is that a notice was given, the tenant still maintains the right to complete the tenancy or move out early and get a refund. A tenant that was given a 6 month notice in month 4 and the notice covers all the way to month 10, has been duly served. After the rent expires, the only notice left is a 7 days intention to recover. Just did this for 2 tenants last year and the judge gave the order easily.

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Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by gassbee: 6:27pm On Mar 11, 2021
abbey621:


Which right? Which law? In Lagos, it can come anytime even after one month, what matters is that a notice was given, the tenant still maintains the right to complete the tenancy or move out early and get a refund. A tenant that was given a 6 month notice in month 4 and the notice covers all the way to month 10, has been duly served. After the rent expires, the only notice left is a 7 days intention to recover. Just did this for 2 tenants last year and the judge gave the order easily.
pls which state is this because d judicial system in some state is so slow
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by abbey621(m): 6:28pm On Mar 11, 2021
gassbee:
pls which state is this because d judicial system in some state is so slow

Lagos, Eti-Osa to be precise.
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by WibusJaga: 8:43pm On Mar 11, 2021
abbey621:


Which right? Which law? In Lagos, it can come anytime even after one month, what matters is that a notice was given, the tenant still maintains the right to complete the tenancy or move out early and get a refund. A tenant that was given a 6 month notice in month 4 and the notice covers all the way to month 10, has been duly served. After the rent expires, the only notice left is a 7 days intention to recover. Just did this for 2 tenants last year and the judge gave the order easily.

OK. Noted.
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by Ginomel(m): 2:26pm On Mar 12, 2021
dipotepede:



Just because you are lucky to defraud the landlord, does not mean it can apply generally.

However, I doubt your story especially the part where you invited him to your house opening - the landlord must be really slow...

Hyperboles like this have placed a lot of tenants in a really dire situation where they end up losing more than they bargained for.

Don't mind AFONJACOW .He is not sure of what he wrote.

What kind of law did he use to stay free for two years, Maybe the landlord is an old man managing his life.

It sounds totally impossible to stay free for two years in a landlords house that knows his onions

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Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by normac: 4:43pm On Mar 12, 2021
Eagba:
thanks a great deal. the tenant constitutional rights supercede any personal agreement I might sign the the tenant. so thanks. I was thinking our personal agreement comes before the state's constitution.

You're welcome, all the best. �
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by okine4real: 5:33pm On Mar 12, 2021
Eagba:
thanks a great deal. the tenant constitutional rights supercede any personal agreement I might sign the the tenant. so thanks. I was thinking our personal agreement comes before the state's constitution.

To some extent the tenants right supercede that of the landlord, only when the landlord put in the tenancy agreement things that he is not suppose to including or putting things that goes against Lagos state tenancy law. Eg. A landlord can put in his agreement that states, if a tenants defaults in rent payment he has the sole right to higher area boys to burst into your apartment and throw away your load, even if the tenant signs the agreement, the part of the agreement is void because that context is against Lagos tenancy law. If you default in rent you are entitle too 6months quit notice either before your rent expires or after it expires. But where a landlord doesn't violates the state tenancy law, the Judge would act in the landlords favour, but what the tenant has to do it beg the landlord and ask for time, not doing gra gra. I gave my tenants one year to park, but I suspended the NEPA bill and cut the wire because they where not willing to pay NEPA bill, as a matter of fact, as at this time, they had left 900k NEPA bill for me. I look at lots of people on Nairaland, always talking as if landlords are bad people, just yesterday I asked how much is 12MM iron rod, its now 300k, to do a decking now, you have to keep 5M. Just one decking ohh, as someone said before, I can't build a house with 60M and when e reach time to pay rent, you start playing pranks, the house was built with cash not credit. Where I leave am a tenant, I renew my rent 28 days after it expires.

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Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by phumtadeic: 11:55am On May 18, 2021
lawyer:


The Lawyer goofed. The position of the law as regards Quit Notice is very simple. There must be clear 6 months given to the errant tenant the landlord wants to evict before it can be tendered to be valid. If the tenancy period of the tenant is to expire in August, the Quit notice must be given in February so that the Quit notice starts running from March. The lawyer issued the Quit Notice on March 8th so the Quit Notice starts running from April 1st and Terminates in September. It's irrelevant that the Tenant's tenure in the property expires on August 8th. The law is that he must be informed 6 months in advance from the date the Quit notice was issued. The OP can challenge the Quit Notice in Court as being defective and a new Quit Notice must be given to him properly or as the Court decides but as it is, it is a very defective Quit Notice that cannot be tendered in court.
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by ArewaWife(m): 9:23pm On May 24, 2021
lawyer:


The Lawyer goofed. The position of the law as regards Quit Notice is very simple. There must be clear 6 months given to the errant tenant the landlord wants to evict before it can be tendered to be valid. If the tenancy period of the tenant is to expire in August, the Quit notice must be given in February so that the Quit notice starts running from March. The lawyer issued the Quit Notice on March 8th so the Quit Notice starts running from April 1st and Terminates in September. It's irrelevant that the Tenant's tenure in the property expires on August 8th. The law is that he must be informed 6 months in advance from the date the Quit notice was issued. The OP can challenge the Quit Notice in Court as being defective and a new Quit Notice must be given to him properly or as the Court decides but as it is, it is a very defective Quit Notice that cannot be tendered in court.

Lawyer can you help with sale of property i.e land?
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by xodyq(m): 8:34am On Oct 05, 2021
lawyer:


The Lawyer goofed. The position of the law as regards Quit Notice is very simple. There must be clear 6 months given to the errant tenant the landlord wants to evict before it can be tendered to be valid. If the tenancy period of the tenant is to expire in August, the Quit notice must be given in February so that the Quit notice starts running from March. The lawyer issued the Quit Notice on March 8th so the Quit Notice starts running from April 1st and Terminates in September. It's irrelevant that the Tenant's tenure in the property expires on August 8th. The law is that he must be informed 6 months in advance from the date the Quit notice was issued. The OP can challenge the Quit Notice in Court as being defective and a new Quit Notice must be given to him properly or as the Court decides but as it is, it is a very defective Quit Notice that cannot be tendered in court.

Wow! This is what i did and i am still in the apartment right now. I told the landlord to charge me to court but he refused so he gave me the whole of october to get another apartment. grin grin grin
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by xodyq(m): 8:56am On Oct 05, 2021
UPDATE!! Thank you all guys for the advice and insight. I didnt yield to the quit order at the due date so finally, the landlord came around yesterday 4th October (after series of threat calls from his lawyer, which i told the lawyer to charge me to court) and gave me a final warning that i should pack out before the end of this month (October).
I will buy the landlord two bottles of cold Goldberg>>>

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Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by Blessings231: 3:25pm On Oct 25, 2021
My landlord issued me a quit notice when my rent isnt due with a backdated document. There was none of the agreements breached but I got served the notice that had August 30th boldly written on it just 2days ago. Is there a way to get out of this because my rent will expire by ending of December 2021.
NB: he has been pressurizing me ever since a month that I moved in for another six month rent when i just paid a year rent previously.
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by Exceed15: 3:50pm On Jan 20, 2022
Nwodosis:
Was it not served in time? You are likely not a good tenant and your landlord has sensed that and wants to be a step ahead of you. You are not bothered about the quit notice but the time that it was served, you want it to be served when your rent has expired to enjoy free accommodation before the expiration of the quit notice.

You are or will be a wicked landlord
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by Exceed15: 3:52pm On Jan 20, 2022
wallay77:

Am pretty sure u v never use money to rent any apartment in ur entire life for spewing this rubbish...nonsense...quit notice when house rent never expire...who does that


Abi o
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by BiGVEEN58(m): 9:14am On Jan 22
christopher123:
THE LAWYER THAT WROTE THIS TRASH ..HOW DID HE GRADUATE?


This is just an intimidation letter
Exactly what I observed.
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by BecomeALandLord(m): 12:32pm On Feb 09
lawyer:


The Lawyer goofed. The position of the law as regards Quit Notice is very simple. There must be clear 6 months given to the errant tenant the landlord wants to evict before it can be tendered to be valid. If the tenancy period of the tenant is to expire in August, the Quit notice must be given in February so that the Quit notice starts running from March. The lawyer issued the Quit Notice on March 8th so the Quit Notice starts running from April 1st and Terminates in September. It's irrelevant that the Tenant's tenure in the property expires on August 8th. The law is that he must be informed 6 months in advance from the date the Quit notice was issued. The OP can challenge the Quit Notice in Court as being defective and a new Quit Notice must be given to him properly or as the Court decides but as it is, it is a very defective Quit Notice that cannot be tendered in court.

Can a tenant be issued 8months advance quit notice while the rent hasn't expired?
The rent will be due in 8months time and the landlord wants to issue a quit notice 8months ahead.
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by gassbee: 6:55am On Feb 16
BecomeALandLord:


Can a tenant be issued 8months advance quit notice while the rent hasn't expired?
The rent will be due in 8months time and the landlord wants to issue a quit notice 8months ahead.
6 months advance notice is wat the law says, just follow the law
Re: My Landlord Gave Me 6months Quit Notice When My Rent Will Due In 6months Time by MisfitHPG: 10:36pm On Apr 01
Coolcalmcollect:

no mind the bastard, him never jam mad landlord na why him dey yarn dust. you never jam landlord wey go comot roof from your apartment.... na God go purnish you
useless fool,only thing some people know is to open empty mouths and talk,what do you know about being a landlord?have you ever owned even a door not to talk of house? even saying God will punish someone,he has already punished you..buffoon

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