I just completed my small house, a 3 bedroom all en-suite bungalow somewhere in abeokuta. I must confess, I got a lot of encouragement and useful info on this site. Thanks to people like Hajji Mufutau, Muyesky, Segzy etc for their educating posts on property section.
I open this thread to encourage under 30s like me, its not too early to start. So, these are the lessons I learnt while building my house.

Lesson 1. Prepare to spend beyond your budget. I budgeted about 3 million naira but I end up spending above 4million naira.

Lesson 2. Its good to Get somebody that is experienced and trustworthy to supervise ur project or guide you, he shouldn't be staying too far from the site and he must alwz be available when his service is needed.

Lesson 3. Its good to get quotation for any purchase or service from at least 3 sources before going further to buy it. Although, the best may nt be the cheapest. My close friend supplied all my doors and I later found out that the 2 security doors that he supplied are inferior to what I ordered for and I could have bought all the doors @ a neighbouring shop @ 45k cheaper with no hassle. He supplied me frm lagos and I spent heavily for transport all in the name of patronising a friend who did nt even hesitate to cheat me.

Lesson 4. Its good to be nice to ppl who are already living around the site, they'll help in protecting your things. My Geepee tanks were almost stolen by some guys, thanks to my neighbours.

Lesson 5. Its good to give the omoniles something when they come around bt don't be too nice cos they'll keep coming in different groups. [/b]They almost turn me to their ATM but I enjoy their company. They help in telling us about people selling fraudulent lands and I do advice my frnds to stay away from them.

[b]Lesson 6. Its good to trust people working for you until you catch them red handed. I made this mistake while building my house and I regret it. For instance, my tiler gave me a quotation of the tiles I was going to need my taste, a frnd told me to reduce each of them by 4 cartons because its more than what he used while working on his building which is relatively of similar size. Unfortunately, the tiles where nt enough, It took me over 2 week to get the same design of tiles which I was already using. I even took someone else there to do the measurement and its almost the same thing the first guy gave me. that was after purchasing the tiles.

Lesson 7. Its good to go to the market with your plumber and your electrician so that you can chose your choice among the various designs of light, sink, closet, basin and the likes, I had to change some lights and showers because I wouldn't have chosen them if had gone with them to purchase those things..

Lesson 8. The best time to start building is as soon as you have a land to build on. You can start with any amount, don't wait till you have 100% of you budgeted amount. I started with 300k.
Best wishes.

NB: am inviting nairalanders to my house warming on march 22nd, 2015. Venue will be announced on request.
Picture of my house later.

Bugatie:
Congratulations bro!

A question for you, did you use any of our in house builder/developers here?

LOVEGINO:
Wooow! 22nd? A day after my wedding nice 1. Jst both a full plot of land, ur post will truly guide me. Tanx alot.

dunkem21:
Mizmycoli, its on the 22nd.

Be my guest.

sammynash11:
Congrats

mufutau55:
Congrats OP.
I am glad you put your experienced gained from this forum into use. It's not easy building a house, you will come across a lot of things along the way; just overcome them and move on... You will enjoy your house in good health by God's grace. Thanks for reporting back.
We will surely appreciate a copy or two of your newly build house... Congrats again.

Hajji M.

segzy14:
CONGRATULATION.
I am happy that you own a house with the help of this great forum.
God will provide for you to build duplexes and also those that want to build such in jesus name.
AMEN.

Yomieluv:
Congrats,you will never regret building the house IJN.

drkay:

Amen, thank you sir. Its good to be good because we don't know who's watching. I have never contact you personally but believe me, am one of your silent fans here. Keep the good work up.

eghosajohnny:
Its really nice to have someone appreciate this forum,congratulations ;you ve started building and completing it you will more and complete them ijn and note the first lesson will guide you in any thing you want to do apart from building alone
Nice 1 keep it coming I know you will come again and tell us you have just completed a commercial building.

You've earned it

emmadejust:

CONGRATULATION!!! ENJOY YOUR LIVING IN YOUR NEW HOUSE WITH DIVINE PROTECTION AND PROVISION ALWAYS