₦airaland Forum

CityNG:
On my gate I don't want to write "My Lord Redeemeth" or other such nonsense.
I want to write "This Property Protected By My Friends, Smith and Wesson".

FastShipping:
You are too Texan for my liking.

I schooled in Oklahoma and always on the visit to Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, and Sugar Land. I don't know why you all think it is okay to play around with bunch of guns. What are you all scared of?

CityNG:
I lived north of Dallas (last count before you hit OK) for a few years.

"The guvmint don took ma land, ma moonshine, all I got left is ma guns and bible"

FastShipping:
Have you joined the tea party? I hope you are not in the crowd of that dimwit called Rafael Cruz. Bunch of his supporters are clinging to guns and bible.

CityNG:
I belong to another fringe group

CityNG:
I belong to another fringe group

CityNG:
I lived north of Dallas (last count before you hit OK) for a few years.

"The guvmint don took ma land, ma moonshine, all I got left is ma guns and bible"

lomomike:
Bro, which one you dey? You have tesbee hanging in your car, a bible and a gun.

Muslim, Christian, Atheist or all of the above?

Marpol:
That was what I had to finally do. And padlocked it with the biggest padlock I could buy.

brabus:
@the biggest padlock. As painful as it I s, it's the fun part of building in Nigeria.

Agents, land urchins, and dubious contractors are all products of a failed system and its a big menace that needs urgent attention.

There's no way you won't run into one. Even Jesus pick one Judas out of 12 disciples. Let alone real estate biz in Nigeria where everyone is a Judas.

CityNG:
I would have to say that based on my personal experiences and also on what I've read that the landscape is indeed fraught with more negative than positive stories.

Even our almighty Spyder had to refund money to his clients through no fault of his other that the sellers didn't tell him the land he was planning to build an estate on was in dispute. I think a Nairalander clued him to that fact.

Another land that I was going to buy originally went from N400k to N850k once the sellers saw me and realized I was a "Londoner" instead of my Lawyer who had been dealing with them.

How about the one where the seller pulled the sale at the last minute because allegedly his wife did not approve of him selling. Who puts up three lots for sale without the wife's permission?

I did not meet a single person in Ibadan who upon learning that I was buying land that didn't have an advice to have the utmost caution because land was a cunning affair.

My seller, a top government official who heads a land integral department stated that he had to buy his own land thrice.

So yes we have an issue with real estate in Nigeria.

PS: there's even a thread on people buying in estates in Lekki who are having issues.

Omo oniles and area boys are another issue that buyers complain about almost on every purchase thread.

FastShipping:
Land buying is a very delicate issue in Nigeria. My earlier advice about not doing any construction on the site for at least six to nine months borne out of risk of losing your hard earned money. A situation whereby someone pays 1 Million Naira for a plot of land and spends another 2 Million Naira on the development of the land, then some people show up two weeks later to claim the land as theirs is a recipe disaster. What is someone going to do in that situation? The land you are paying for might have been sold to others before the land is shown to you. This thing happens everyday in Nigeria; especially in Southwest.

My advice is to buy land and erect concrete blocks at the four corners of the land. Wait for few months to see if anyone shows up to claim ownership of the land you paid for. There is always someone in the area to pay to help you monitor the land. That person monitoring the land for you can give you a call if there is any intrusion.