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Darlingme:
Have you ever had an experience of a tenant who has refused to evict a house even after the rent expiration?

Despite all the notifications and reminders?
Someone you told a year before and you kept on reminding him.

What's the best option for such a tenant who is threatened you the house owner that he is free to stay for another period of 6 month after his rent expiration, claiming he is yet to find another house to move to. according to Nigeria law.

He has stayed for free for three months already.

What would you advise?

I advice you consult a lawyer, resident in that State to file the appropriate documents for his ejection

Tenancy law of Lagos state allows yearly tenants to remain on premises six months after service of notice to quit if there is no tenancy agreement that alters this statutory limit

Your tenant fit dey that property till you serve am notice to quit date am properly. Exception to this rule wey go make you comot am jejely within one month or two go be if you made him to sign tenancy agreement wey talk say him go comot after one month/ specified time period upon service of notice to quit

I've explained the situation in English and in pidgin. Hope you get the gist now.

Follow due process to eject him
Don't force him out so you won't go to jail particularly in Lagos

histemple:
A landlord does not need to tell you the reason he wants a tenant to leave. It's the prerogative of a landlord to decide who stays or leaves.

Absolutely true. However, a landlord's approach to handling an eviction would heavily depend on why they want the tenant gone.

In this case, I think the landlord has every right to use the law and force an eviction.

Darlingme:
So many people suggested that. But I don't know if it's questionable by the law

That is where you got it wrong. Six months ago you ought to have secured a court order through a lawyer to serve hin the legal notice. Go and speak with a lawyer...

Namaster:
REMOVE the roof!

Bhad guy...

No need for physical eviction..

Nonexisting1:
Gbam. Modern problems require modern solutions.

lol.. this is an ancient but effective solution

abbey621:
You're a joker, business in 9ja right now is equivalent to setting your money on fire, the statistics shows that majority of businesses in Nigeria fail or operate at a loss within the first 3 to 4 years but a well located property can always be sold at an amount that has appreciated. Your capital would be in tact and if you're lucky the profits will make you smile as well!

Sometimes you should be fast to learn, and slow to respond.

By statistics, who make more money in Nigeria, Businessmen or Landlords?

Do not just Talk. Learn to Think.

When Landlords get wealthy, it is not because they are Landlords, but because they are Businessmen.

Before you respond, if you must, first Think.

A Poor Landlord is an Abomination, but sadly, there are too many Poor Landlords in Nigeria.

I promise to make this simple and short. Please kindly bear with me. however i write this am mind is filled up.
I just got an apartment where am living for now with my wife and daughter which is going to be 2yrs of me staying by January 14 2024. but the issue i have right now is that i was suppose to renew my house rent January 14 2023 the sum of 550k year due to how difficult everything was so

i make half payment on December 2022 to the lawyer and make the lawyer understand the situation of thing at the moment and he accept with me sum of 275k that's 6 month payment so hoping before June/July i will be paid the remaining half. fast forward to August 16 i message the lawyer

again on WhatsApp again concerns the second half payment which i did another 275k but to my surprise after paying the said amount i got quit notice letter just 1 weeks after making payment that i shouldn't renew my rent again and i should leave the house before January 14 or by January 14. so i went to the lawyer office and let him know how i feel about this that what my offend and when you know you're given me QUIT NOTICE why collecting money from me again and he doesn't respond to my question saying the landlady complain my wife doesn't use to greet her whereas we are living in the same compound but we tenant have our own gate while the landlord have their own personal gate and compound we doesn't share the same compound because there's demarcation between the tenant and landlord.

my problem and concerns at the moment is i don't have money yet on me to rent another apartment i will really need enough time. I want people here to enlighten me on this under the law, is it how it works in Lagos state and secondly i was told they are coming for inspection of my apartment by November if i made any damage in the apartment when am still living in the apartment likewise am new to this i pay for damage the sum of 60k i never damage anything in the apartment still this moment everything is in order. i really better knowledge on this about the quite notice and inspection of house around November because i don't trust the landlord for who they claim to be PASTOR

I'm still to read and reply back

thanks

https://www.nairaland.com/7867024/landlord-issue-need-more-knowledge

Nairalanders, I need your help.

I just moved into this new apartment and within a month to the expiration of my rent, I got a call from the caretaker to see him and he told me they would be is increasing the rent unless I renew before it expires but I didn't have it at that moment and pleaded but he said that's the decision of the owners of the house.

The landlady leaves in the building as well but the caretaker receives rent payment and all for reasons best known to them.

I went to see the landlady and she stood her ground that if I can't pay I should leave. Well, I could deduce her actions for doing this as she had a quarrel with my fiancée and it has been settled but she still had it in her mind.

I don't why people have dumb mentality. A landlady and a tenant cannot quarrel and settle in peace anymore.

I choose to pay the rent increase last year in order to let peace reign. On a norms, I would never pay for such an increase( I mean from 200k to 250k) Now, I just got a letter delivered to me this morning which is a notice to quit as my rent just expired last month.

Normally, when my rent expires or about to, the caretaker will call me and ask when will I be renewing it but this time I didn't get anyone at all which means they actually planned it before now.

They didn't even call me for a meeting to discuss, who does that?

And on the letter, there was no reason stated on the quit notice and it's a 6 months eviction notice. I spoke to my lawyer and she said that's how they do these days issuing quit notice without prior notification even when you're paying constantly.

When I went to see the caretaker, he told me it was because I was absent in the last meeting that was held in the compound. What trash! I rained curses on him to the extent that he couldn't voice out a word again. Apparently, he was shocked as I'm always very gentle.

Are they sharing money in the meeting or what? Or I would leave my business and be in a meeting on a weekday when I can always get what was discussed in the meeting from people that were there.

The reason didn't even go down well with me as it got me really annoyed. I have decided to park out but I want to make sure they see pepper.

Can I stay up to a year or more before moving out?

Please I need your advice, thoughts, and ideas. Thanks in advance and pardon my typos as I'm typing from my phone.

https://www.nairaland.com/7114831/landlady-just-brought-quit-notice

I am a yearly tenant and do not owe my landlord. The man decided to be greed and I had no option but to report him to office of public offender.

It happened that his negligence almost cost me my life and destroyed my properties, AC, TV, Shelve, speaker etc.

When it happened people told me to claim damages but I refused citing that I didn't want to take advantage of the situation, being alive is enough for me. The landlord was even begging me not to report the matter than he will compensate me. I told him I have no intention of reporting it, that he should just fixed his house back.

This man didn't fix the house, I called and called but he refused. I had to fix it myself and moved in because searching for a house is too expensive. I needed more time to search and get a better place. For two months I was out of my house because of the job going on. But when I moved in, I was surprised that this same landlord that begged me to be calm came and started disturbing me to pay his rent.

I was surprised, my rent hasn't expired, for two months I didn't stay in the house because of your negligence, my properties got damaged and I am not asking for compensation, I just moved in, yet to settle and you are pressuring me for a rent that hasn't expired.

I told him I will pay when my rent expires but will remove the money I spent doing work he wasn't supposed to do. This man refused and started shouting. I didn't expect him to behave the way he did after every thing that happened so I told him, I will be packing out of the house instead when my rent expires.

To my surprise the man brought a quit notice and asked me to leave his house the following month. Now that action got me angry and I decided to ask for compensation for my damaged properties.

Today, I filed a formal petition costing everything that got damaged and everything amounts to one million. The person handling the case after narrating the story to him and showed him video and picture evidence he became so angry and further extended the case to Lagos State Building agency which means the house will be surveyed for structural integrity and if it fails the test, demolish will follow.

I didn't want to toe this part but the landlord allowed greed to blind him. You caused someone damages worth millions, he didn't request for pay back, his rent is still running yet you are pressuring him to pay days after he moved in.

Let him face the consequences of his greed

https://www.nairaland.com/7356948/reported-landlord-today

Darlingme:
Someone that is threatened me with juju already. He has told me several times that I don't know who he is and what he can do diabolically.

Na gragra. Person wey wan do person juju no dey tell person. He want make you fear am

What is your worst Experience With A landlord/landlady?

My undergraduate days was one of the times that i had worst Experience With Landlords. I happen to have worst Experiences with 2 Landlords:

First Landlord
While i got admission into higher institution, i rented an Apartment close to school, my dad followed me in order to know where i stay. In the process, he met my Landlord. They talked for a while and he collected my dad's number. The Man was jovial little did i know there will be a problem.

There was a time our light got spoiled he told me that since I am using gas I should help him and boil water, I obliged. From that day the man wants to exploit me. He came back the next day that he wanted me to give him stew if i have, i gave him. He came back two days that i should give him groundnut oil that's when i realized he wants to use my niceness to exploit me. Since then i promised myself not to give him things anyhow. He still came back after 5days that i should help him with raw pepper i told him it is finished then he asked me of matches i told him it has also finished. That was the last time he asked me for something.

About two weeks later my dad sent me money and then told me to give some part of the money to the landlord. I wanted to ask my dad why, but i just allowed it slide and gave him. As time goes on i observed he is also trying to exploit my dad. The next time my dad sent money to me he told me to give the Landlord again i corner the money. I later told my dad not to give that guy money again he is trying to exploit us.

One year after i left the Apartment he send message to my dad containing his account number that my dad should send him money.

Second Landlord
In 400L I was a roommate to my course mate (my roommate stayed there a year earlier). The Landlord warmly welcomed me. The man was very nice, so i thought, he even told us that as student when we need something we should just ask them, let there be harmony. I never knew i will face a lot of anger.

It first started when the Landlord borrowed my knife and hasn't returned it for two days i asked my roommate if he sees the knife he told me he will talk to Landlord. Later he came and told me that the knife was missing that while the Landlord was making cake he couldn’t find the knife. I was disappointed but let it slide.

Few days later when we came back from lectures he told us that he took some of our sweet potatoes and ate because he was hungry, i was ok with it.

It started getting annoying when our Landlord turned our room as if it was his. He will just open the door and enter into our room without knocking and start demanding for something, the one that annoys me most is toothpaste. It became too much that we had to hide our toothpaste from him.

During semester break we went home but i forgot something very important so i came back the next day only for me to see that our room was opened and my travelling bag and that of my roommate opened he came rushing to me that let him apologize that he took my Vaseline. I told him no problem. When we resumed that's when i realized my sponge, hairbrush and perfume were missing.

I became very angry, felt like strangling him. I asked of the Landlord, his wife told me he has gotten back to school i was very pissed off i told her what he has been doing, she said that's how he use to do that when we went to semester break that he slept in our room, that on behalf of him she is saying sorry that i should take heart.

https://www.nairaland.com/5913509/what-worst-experience-landlord-landlady

There is no law that says the tenant should stay in a property free for any length of time. Landlords only leave tenants because rent after notice is difficult to collect but it can be collected by a court order. Write your tenant that you are not leaving any rent for them and since they are playing you you can increase the rent. The court can allow you to take your money by force which may even not be necessary if the tenant is gainfully employed. They will sign an undertaking and pay.

Tenant rights are more important than you probably realize and the first step towards protecting your rights as a tenant is to know what those rights are. Without knowing these rights, you put yourself at the mercy of landlords and caretakers in Nigeria
Before we delve into your rights as a tenant, let us start by establishing who a tenant is within the ambit of the law as well as the real estate space.

Who is a Tenant?
A tenant is a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord and is subject to the payment of rent. With this established, let us proceed to examine tenant rights and what they mean to you as a tenant in Nigeria.

1. Right to Issuance of Receipt of Payment
As a tenant, it is important that you pay your rent but it is not considered proof of the existence of tenancy until payment is made. One of the reasons why it is an essential part of a tenancy is because it does the following:
It is first and foremost, a proof of payment
Helps the court calculate the precise time frame for a valid quit notice especially in a situation where there is no agreement
The receipt is needed for the calculation of a mesne profit (which is the rent a tenant incurs upon the expiration of a valid quit notice, which was served on him).
Needed to counter and clear allegations of your refusal or inability to adhere to timely payment of rent
The receipt of payment is an acknowledgement from your landlord that he/she received payment from you
For the receipt of payment to be considered valid, it must contain the following:
Your name as well as the name of the landlord
The specific amount of money that was paid as rent
The date the payment was made
The type of property for which the rent was paid. For instance, was it a 2-bedroom apartment, a mini-flat or a detached house?
The period of time that the rent paid is expected to cover. For instance, was the rent paid to cover a year, 2 years or 6 months?
The signature of the person receiving the payment must also be on the receipt.
Did you know that it is actually an actionable offence for the landlord to decline the issuance of receipt of payment to you? Even in a situation where you are only making a partial payment of rent for the property, a receipt still needs to be issued to you.
In the absence of a printed receipt, a written agreement, which is endorsed by the landlord in the presence of a witness stating that he/she has received payment from you will be considered a valid receipt of payment. This is in line with tenant rights.
Regardless of how cordial your relationship is with your landlord, always insist of being issued a receipt upon payment of your rent.

2. Right to Written Agreement
Agreements can either be oral or written but experts advised that you should opt for a written agreement. A written agreement removes all elements of doubt and ambiguity around the intention of all parties involved (you and the landlord). This is backed by tenant rights.
According to the law, tenancy agreements above 3 years are mandated to be written while those lesser than 3 years can either be oral or written. Experts have however advised that even if your tenancy is for 2 weeks, you should opt for a written agreement. Details that should be included in a written agreement include:
Your name as well as the name of the landlord
Details of the type of property that is being rented out
The location of the property you are renting as well as the features that come with it
The period of time for which the rent will cover
The amount of money that is being paid as rent
The date payment was made
The modalities for an upward review of the rent
The duration of ‘quit notice’ to be served by the landlord
The person responsible for repair works within and around the property
The person who bears the responsibility for expenses like water, electricity and sanitation bills
A post office stamp should be affixed to make it acceptable in court as an evidence
Before a written agreement can be considered valid, both parties (you and the landlord) are to execute the agreement by signing and dating it with at least one witness each
You need to be careful with your written agreement because landlords are known to duplicate a single agreement and use this for all their tenancy agreements. The downside of this is that such an agreement leaves certain intentions unexpressed.
Stay on the lookout for agreements that are drafted by the landlord’s lawyer and handed over to you. Such agreements have a reputation of being confusing and unfavorable to you in the long run. What you want to do here is to have a property lawyer to help you look into such agreements to spot anything that has been planted there to work against you one way or the other. Your lawyer then advises you on what to add and what you need to pull out.
Never jump into an agreement orally or without a property lawyer to guide you. Don’t let your current relationship with your landlord becloud your judgement. Relationships can go sour, which can leave you in a difficult situation in the absence of an agreement that is legally binding on you and the landlord.

3. Right to Occupy Rented Property in Peace
The moment you pay your rent and append your signature on a written agreement, you earn the right to occupy the rented property in peace. When you become a tenant, you have legal and equitable right over the rented space. Your tenant rights make you entitled to this.
This right is absolute and you can sue trespassers; your landlord or caretaker are not exempted from this. The landlord still owns the property and is free to maintain the property but this has to be done with your knowledge. All forms of maintenance should be done at reasonable hours of the day. For instance, a landlord cannot decide to cut down a huge mango tree at 11:30pm.
Upon renting the property out to you, the landlord temporarily relinquishes his control of the property over to you up until the expiration of your tenancy. A landlord can only trample on your rights as a tenant when you are ignorant of such rights.
In a case where your landlord abuses this right, don’t hesitate to inform your property lawyer or the closest police station.

4. Right to Valid Quit Notice Before Eviction
As a tenant, your landlord is not legally empowered to throw you or your valuables out of his/her property without a valid notice to quit the property.
Before your landlord can get you to quit his/her property, there must be strict compliance with the Recovery of Premises Law and it has to be relevant. Your tenant rights makes you entitled to this.
According to the Recovery of Premises Law, a valid Quit Notice (Notice to Quit) must be written and served on you before your landlord can terminate your tenancy. The law is very clear on this.
The duration of the Quit Notice varies according to the conditions of your tenancy as seen below:
A one-year (or above) tenancy will require at least a notice of 6 months
A one-month tenancy will require a minimum notice of one month
A one-week tenancy will require a minimum notice of one week
It is important to add here that you and the landlord can agree on a totally different duration for the quit notice in the written agreement. What this means, for instance, is that despite the fact that the law stipulates that your landlord should give you a notice of 6 months to quit a tenancy of one year, it can be reduced to a month or a week’s notice through the written and signed agreement.
Real estate experts have repeatedly emphasised the need to go through the agreement with a property lawyer before you append your signature to a tenancy agreement. The real estate space is replete with stories of tenants like you who signed a tenancy agreement to be evicted without a ‘Notice to Quit’ without realizing the full implication of what they were signing.
Never forget that the law does not care to know if you understood what you were signing or not. In law, this is known as ‘ ignorantia legis non excuse ‘ (ignorance of the law is no excuse). If you sign a legal agreement that limits your rights, you will be bound by the same agreement. Under the law, this is known as ‘volenti non fit injuria .’
Did you know that if you owe your landlord rent for your property for 3 consecutive months, the landlord has the right to issue you a ‘Notice to Quit.’

5. Right to a Compulsory 7 Days Notice to Recover Premises
Under the Nigerian law, you are entitled to a compulsory ‘7 Days Notice to Recover Premises.’ This notice comes from your landlord’s lawyer to notify you that the lawyer will proceed to court after 7 days of serving you this notice, recover the over- held premises on behalf of the landlord.
This 7-day notice comes after the expiration of the initial notice to you to quit the property. The additional 7 days notice serves to legally protect you from being forcefully ejected or humiliated. It also gives you sufficient time to quit the property.
We should add here that the ‘7 Days Notice to Recover Premises’ can only be served upon the expiration of the initial quit notice. The 7 days notice is to be calculated from the day after the service of the notice on the tenant and not from the day of service. If it is served before a ‘Quit Notice’ or during the lifespan of a ‘Quit Notice,’ it is rendered invalid.

Final Thoughts on Tenant Rights
Regardless of the neighborhood where the property you are renting is situated, the law is clear on what a landlord can and cannot do.

Tenant rights are clear. To avoid being manipulated into appending your signature to dubious tenancy agreements that can come back to haunt you, consider hiring a real estate lawyer to protect your interest.

Have you had any nasty personal experience with a Nigerian landlord or is there one you can share with us.

Source https://www.privateproperty.com.ng/news/tenants-rights-nigeria/

https://www.nairaland.com/4593219/things-bad-landlords-dont-want

Enforce a lawful eviction.

I stay alone in a room and parlor self contain here in Lagos , although we have constant light, I have been in this area for less than 2year and light is at least 23-24 hrs per day.

I use 7000 naira to buy Nepa units on the 28th June and it’s finished already today being 12th of July, note that I don’t use anything that draws power in my house .

UPDATE!!!!

So I went to Nepa office today and I was told that there is a debt of 65k on the prepaid meter, each time I recharge Nepa takes off 60% from me for the debt settlement.

Now my question is, am I supposed to be paying a debt I don’t owe or is this the duty of the landlord.

https://www.nairaland.com/7762804/blame-here-me-landlord

Contact me he will pack out

Anyone living in Asaba and some other cities will testify to wrong activities of landlords and tenants. For reasons known to them, majority of landlord don't put notice of vacant apartment in their house again. They connive with agents to indulge in what is in popular opinion extortion. Some of the negative extortionary activities of landlords and their agents are as follow.
When you first approach the agent, he would request for registration fee. Which could be between 2000 Naira and 15000 Naira, using Asaba Delta as case study. After you pay this amount, the self-acclaimed agent will take you out on what they call inspection. Whether they know a house that is actually vacant and fits your description, it doesn't matter to them. They just take you round asking you to pay the transport. In so many cases they will not be able to show you a vacant accommodation of your description. Then when next you call them to continue with the search, they will be dodging, except they are convinced that each time you meet them, you will pay for inspection. In many cases after payment of transport round and inspection fee, they won't be able to help you find the accommodation of your specification.
Landlords greed has compounded the issue. They monitor tenants progress with a view to extorting money from them through bills and other responsibilities which ordinarily should not be on tenants. More worrisome is that some of the landlords have resorted to yearly eviction of tenants. The reason is that, when a tenant is coming in the first year, the tenant pays for landlord's drink, and many other charges that can double the amount of the annual rent. The agents also add their fees which are forbiddingly and indiscriminately high to the money. In a typical case in Asaba Delta, annual rent was 200000 and then charges added to it totaled 250000 Naira, bringing the total payment to 450000 Naira. Because of the extra charges for both landlords and agents, the landlords at the slightest excuse evict tenants because when the tenant will pay as renewal of the rent is smaller compared to what a new tenant would pay. The agents are very happy to hear that a tenant is about to pack. Such that even before you pack, they have started bringing in people. They even advise the landlord to increase the rent as soon as the old tenant packs out. For this reason, house is always vacant in some compounds every year as the landlord quit tenants.
Agents advise landlords wrongly that their houses worth more than what they intend to give them out. If landlords set their rent at 50k per month for instance, an agent would tell him it's too cheap, that he would bring a tenant that can pay 70k. And so the landlord will give him free hand.
If a tenant stumbles on a vacant apartment herself, at the point of payment, the landlord will demand for agency fee to be added to the annual rent. Another practice by some landlords is to impose agreement fee on only the tenant. This is an odious practice considering the fact that it's the landlord who demands the services of the lawyer and not a lawyer hired by the prospective tenant. The services are rendered to the landlord based on his specification. Common sense demands that he should be responsible for payment of the lawyer's charges.
These malpractices are numerous and victims have more accounts. Some victims even give account of how tenants evicted once they receive visitors and how agents have duped some.
The state governments should not neglect the housing issue completely to the informal operation by the landlords and their agents. Particularly in a place like Asaba where there are lot of civil servants with fixed income who at the same time need to live within the city because of proximity to their workplaces. There should be a law mandating anyone who wants to be an agent to register with the state government and there should be a document clearly defining their roles and what they should collect as fees.

https://www.nairaland.com/8303675/landlords-agents-unregulated-activities-worsen

This issue has been of serious concern to me for quite some time. In 2002, I was house-hunting in this Lagos and it was frustrating. I needed to move closer to my office on the Island as I lived in one of the outskirt towns. I was taken to so many available apartments around Obalende, Onikan, Gbagada, etc. but each time I show interest in a particular one, I get feedback from the Agent that the Landlord doesn't want an Igbo person (This is me that grew up in Lagos o).

In recent years, I've also seen and heard Landlords (Igbo Landlords inclusive) say they don't want an Igbo as tenants. Just yesterday, on my way home, I overheard an Estate Agent telling someone at the other end of the phone that his firm does not accept applications from Igbo prospective tenants because most landlords who manage their properties have directed them not to accept Igbo tenants. I engaged the Agent in a discussion with a view to understanding their reason(s). He simply gave two reasons which are that, the Igbos do not pay rent and that they damage properties. He informed that 95% of Landlord/Tenants litigations they have in their firm are with Igbo tenants.

This got me very worried, hence this post. Please Nairalanders, share your experience with house-hunting as an Igbo tenant or landlord; or even as a non-igbo who have experienced either the good or bad side of the Igbo tenant.

https://www.nairaland.com/6853849/lagos-landlords-reject-igbos-tenants

It is unlawful and illegal for a landlord to unilaterally increase rent without first consulting or renegotiating the price with the tenant - Speed Darlington's lawyer, Stan Alieke, says.

Counsel to embattled singer, Speed Darlington, Stan Alieke, says that it is unlawful for any landlord to unilaterally increase their house rent.

According to Alieke, several courts in Nigeria have ruled in a plethora of cases that it is unlawful and illegal for a landlord to increase rent without consulting or renegotiating the price with the tenant.

https://www.nairaland.com/8308641/it-unlawful-illegal-landlord-unilaterally

Check to be sure its cheaper to do this compared to other options on the table. Sheets are very expensive now, and you may have to do replacement with new ones and then workmanship to remove and replace...

Darlingme:
So many people suggested that. But I don't know if it's questionable by the law

Go learn work from Wike

nifemi25:
Why not contact human right activists in your area ..... They will invite the tenant for questioning and will surely evit him.... Just that it might cost you little change

Every small thing human rights activists. Una don abuse that thing

Don't take law into your hands, if you inform the police too they will act on court order. Best thing to do, serve him seven days notice after the seven days and he still remain adamant. If you're in Ogun State, go to magistrate court at Agbado or Ojodu Abiodun you pay #15000 to file the case in court. They will summon him to court twice, if he didn't show up, the court will come and evict him on their own.
That was the method I used to evict a chief tenant if over 15years in my mum's house.

Darlingme:
For the purpose of renovation

Lolz
U are not renovating anything
U just want to increase the rent.

Tell us why u want him out

2cribz:
Simple thing. When going put,lock the gate with diff padlock,both from in and outside
Remove the windows net
Remove the roof ,not the whole roof,but just a small part where better sun and birds can come in
Disconnect nepa
Disconnected water
Travel for 4days.if he no comot,then na oyo

what if you remove the roof and he breaks the ceiling by the corner, calls the police on you that the carpenters you brought to remove the roof just made away with his #800k ?

You will definitely be paying for his next apartment because of the senseless advices some fellows are giving you here

Nigerians and beer parlour laws

wellmax:
No law gives any tenant free six months. No law whatsoever I don’t know where people get that wrong notion from.

Darlingme:
Have you ever had an experience of a tenant who has refused to evict a house even after the rent expiration?

Despite all the notifications and reminders?
Someone you told a year before and you kept on reminding him.

What's the best option for such a tenant who is threatened you the house owner that he is free to stay for another period of 6 month after his rent expiration, claiming he is yet to find another house to move to. according to Nigeria law.

He has stayed for free for three months already.

What would you advise?

Since he is a yearly tenant he has a right to 6 months.
The 6 months is not free.
Don't try to forcefully remove him by removing the roof or any other foul means. If he has a good lawyer, you might find yourself in jail if your use any foul means.
Take him to court. He will be given about 6 months to move out which will he must pay for. Since he has stayed for 3 just exercise patient for 3 more months.

Darlingme:
For the purpose of renovation

then remove the roof

Make sure you inform your lawyer and you don't need to fight with him or her just tell him that you want to renovate your house by match by that raining season is going to enter steady steady . Since he threaten you with spiritual means all you need to do is that don't fight with him at all you can him that sir please i want renovate your because of raining season if he don't pack out you can continue with your renovation plan without looking at anybody face

Darlingme:
I don't have strength for court and police right now.
Is like I'm going to act like a wicked person too

if you love yourself , u better follow the legal process of evicting a tenant, any gragra wil backfire

Darlingme:
I don't have strength for court and police right now.
Is like I'm going to act like a wicked person too

@Bolded,
What did I just read? You don't have strength for court and police,then you should leave the recalcitrant tenant to continue to live in your house for free.
You don't sound like a person who used her hard earned money to build a house or you should know that once you are renting a property to different people you MUST surely encounter stubborn and evil tenants. How you handle this particular case is a yard stick to how you will enjoy peace from your other tenants because they will be watching keenly to see how you handle this case.
If you handle this case firmly and swiftly you will have peace with your other tenants. However if you continue in this lackadaisical attitude towards your property other tenants may/will decide to tow the recalcitrant avenue and may decide not to pay your rent when due.
As a landlord you should always be on top of issues concerning your property. Be informed about the laws concerning tenants and landlords and property disputes.

The first step is to report at the HUMAN RIGHTS SECTION of your local police station or area command. You will be appointed a police officer to accompany you to the property in order to view and invite the recalcitrant tenant to the police station where he will be asked to put down in writing his reason for refusal to pay your rent. Once you have instituted a case file and a petition in a police station,and the case has been incidented you will need to employ the services of a lawyer who will through the police human rights department make sure the case is charged to court.
It is now the police and the court ballif that will legally evict and eject the tenant from your property and evacuate his property to the court warehouse premises.

It is a tedious process but you need to fight fire with a stronger fire. Some tenants are just plain evil but when you show them that you are ready to go the extra mile they will generally conform.