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boyjo:
It seems Kaduna is really safe.
Bit the media makes it sound like bombing is always going on there.
You mind clarifying?

Dpsychologist:
What is Your Worst Experience with a Tenant?

As there are terrible experiences with landlords there are also terrible experiences with tenants. Today i will like to share a worst experience with a tenant.

My dad happens to be a landlord so we have met alot of tenants.

There was a stubborn tenant that rented a 3 bedroom flat worth 300k. He told my dad he will pay 250k now when he has the remaining he will pay. That's when the notoreity started. The tenant refused to pay the 50k, despite my dad's constant reminder.

When his rent expires he said he will soon pay that he needs more time, that he wants to pay everything at once. The next time my dad ask him, he said he is in financial crises all this was while i was in school. When i came back for end of semester break i still heard that the man hasn't paid his rent. I began pressuring my dad to collect this rent, the tenant has spent over 5months without paying a dime. My dad said the man lost his uncle and went for burial recently. Thats when i realize he has been given excuse to my dad for a very long time.

After sometimes i told my dad not to allow the man stay one more month without paying. My dad threaten to bring the police and take him to court. The man blocked my dad number, then my dad called him with another number when he picked and discover it was my dad he claim he didnt see my dad's initial call that he was sick. The man then switched off his phone.

We decided to go to meet the man together with a lawyer but he was not around. I placed a 2month notice and that he must pay for the months he has stayed in the house. After a week the man called with a new number pleading that he should not be evicted. He asked for my dad's account number so that he will pay. The man send 50k only. My dad told him he just completed his last year rent and will have to pay for the current year. The man refused. After the two months my dad changed the door lock thereby preventing him from getting inside even though his stuffs are inside.

After a month, a woman from the Neighborhood told my dad that the man we evicted is still living in the house. He usually comes in late at around 11-12pm and goes out around 7am. The next day we arrived there few minutes past 6 but the man has already gone. We discover that he changed the lock to the house. We end up confiscating all his properties and emptied his room. Till today he is yet to be found.

I have others stories about other tenants but i will love to hear your story. Over to you.

What is your worst experience with a tenant?

Tomide59:
Eh! That's too bad o... Let be sincere with ourslf hands are not equal besides u have maltreated ur tenant cos u want to pay ur tuition fee... I pray u wil never xperience such then u wil understand wella. Bros always be good. although i'm not perfect.

boyjo:
If the house no worth the hike in price?
Tenant dem still get sense naw.

okine4real:
Work with the NEPA marketer in charge of your house. Disturb him andbhive him some cash, he go help you fast track the meter. I was also told that if I want mine prepaid meter sharp sharp I should pay 7k for each meter. Don't disturb your self regarding bills the tenants of owing for NEPA, once the meters are Installed, tell NEPA to share the total amount on the bill on all the prepaid meters, these way, the tenants would still pay the fee. I repeat most married tenants are pain in the ass. I be Igbo ohh, but I know fit Igbo man when dey do business mine house. To pay na wahala, also when done pass 55 years na wahala. Give your guys and ladies your house, before them go turn problem e go tey. Make your they have good jobs. If I where, if you can sacrifice, evict that tenants and get a young guy. Mine house has only one married man, and he has just two children. One of mine tenants is like 27 years, the guy pays 500k, know be yahoo him dey do ohh, na legit work him dey do, another is 36 years, another is like 31 all not married. The house is peaceful. The key is, from the onset you need to get it right, once you fail at that point, na trouble ohh.

HoliMaree:
Baba thanks, the single guys in my house are just like married men. One is the first born and all his younger brothers joined him ×3) there. I'm sure they're his brothers cause I know their parents. The second young guy, is around 26 his mother and siblings stay in one room with him. That one is more than useless, can't repair anything or pay bill

Dpsychologist:
What is Your Worst Experience with a Tenant?

As there are terrible experiences with landlords there are also terrible experiences with tenants. Today i will like to share a worst experience with a tenant.

My dad happens to be a landlord so we have met alot of tenants.

There was a stubborn tenant that rented a 3 bedroom flat worth 300k. He told my dad he will pay 250k now when he has the remaining he will pay. That's when the notoreity started. The tenant refused to pay the 50k, despite my dad's constant reminder.

When his rent expires he said he will soon pay that he needs more time, that he wants to pay everything at once. The next time my dad ask him, he said he is in financial crises all this was while i was in school. When i came back for end of semester break i still heard that the man hasn't paid his rent. I began pressuring my dad to collect this rent, the tenant has spent over 5months without paying a dime. My dad said the man lost his uncle and went for burial recently. Thats when i realize he has been given excuse to my dad for a very long time.

After sometimes i told my dad not to allow the man stay one more month without paying. My dad threaten to bring the police and take him to court. The man blocked my dad number, then my dad called him with another number when he picked and discover it was my dad he claim he didnt see my dad's initial call that he was sick. The man then switched off his phone.

We decided to go to meet the man together with a lawyer but he was not around. I placed a 2month notice and that he must pay for the months he has stayed in the house. After a week the man called with a new number pleading that he should not be evicted. He asked for my dad's account number so that he will pay. The man send 50k only. My dad told him he just completed his last year rent and will have to pay for the current year. The man refused. After the two months my dad changed the door lock thereby preventing him from getting inside even though his stuffs are inside.

After a month, a woman from the Neighborhood told my dad that the man we evicted is still living in the house. He usually comes in late at around 11-12pm and goes out around 7am. The next day we arrived there few minutes past 6 but the man has already gone. We discover that he changed the lock to the house. We end up confiscating all his properties and emptied his room. Till today he is yet to be found.

I have others stories about other tenants but i will love to hear your story. Over to you.

What is your worst experience with a tenant?

okine4real:
Your house is a cheap house.when your house is expensive, your tenants would not even stay at the balcony. Observe these am saying, any house that the rent is high, you will never see the tenants at the balcony, na people when know get work they stay balcony ohh...As I said earlier on,nif you get it wrong from the beginning, it would be difficult to correct the wrongs. Concert your house to room and parlor self contain... Increase the rents and let the tenants pay service charge, your house to start to they make sense.

Thank me later.

okine4real:
i have about 8 tenants in one of mine house, they have refused to pay mine rent for about three years now. the rent is 70k per annum, room and parlor self contain. the worst is, this guys are giving birth in mine house. To even go to mine house self they tire me... Because of how tenants behave in ikorodu, i decided not to build there anymore. Most of the tenants always behaving has if they have not eating for years, when i ask for rent na story, but they are lucky because i live very far from the said house so i cant really deal with them.... i also have another structure there, someone is leaving there free of charge.... the person only helps in cleaning the compound, mine friend put them there so as to secure the compound. so because of the ikorodu experience, i decided to build another structure close to where i leave, i leave somewhere around Jibowu Lagos.. after building the house, i rented it for 450k per annum and 50k service charge...total is 500k. i made the rent so high so that, all those people when never chop would not near mine house. i tried as much as i can to make the house very beautiful. If there is know light for even a year, the house has a generator that would be used to pump water, i made it clear, i dont want to see aboki selling water to the tenants, any security light that gets burnt will be replaced by me, if the pumping machine gets spoil, it would be fixed by me,payment for lawma is included in the service charge also with payment for the woman sweeping the compound, that was the reason i charged them service charge. Every tenants minds there business, even one of mine tenants changed his car after moving in. the main reason most landlords have problem wit tenants is because most of the tenants done too tey for the house so they become Gods... after like 7 years, i will increase the rent to like 600k or more, depending on what is obtainable. And i will not want to give mine room and parlor self contain to married people.. Even if you want to get married, they would either park out or give birth to lesser children may be two kids or maximum 3 kids. the fact is tenants that have these kind of mind set is different from those once when know get money yet born like 5 children still bring him relation come the house. so strategically i placed come factors before renting mine house house. bad tenants more worst than bad wife. Also dont make your rent cheap, when your rent is 200k for two bed room flat in a place like Jibowu... even when the occupants are not working, they will be able to pay the rent because with two direct from baba IJEBU THEY WILL HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY YOUR RENT, mean while, two bed room flat new house is 800k in Jibowu. But the bad part is such kind of tenants cannot do repairs in your house, if there are major damage, the damage would be left undone, and once left undone, the damage would keep expanding.... Also landlord should try and get prepaid meters for tenants, its expensive but when installed in a house, it reduces rift between landlord and tenant.

cheera

tonididdy:
the house I inherited from my late father... there's this tenant in the house, I have given them more than 7 quit notice with court orders but they refused to leave.
the tenant told me to my face, " I dey this house before them born you"... so I just let them be, when them get rent, them call me... I go go take otherwise I dash them the rooms before


well out of the blue, they called me and said they had moved out of the house.

I went to see for myself and truly they had packed out. the room condition was an eye sore. they trained chickens right in their living room. some people Sha...

Robnectar:
the ones that don't like paying Nepa bill, anytime you go meet them, they will be behaving like they don't understand the language u speaking

Dpsychologist:
What is Your Worst Experience with a Tenant?

As there are terrible experiences with landlords there are also terrible experiences with tenants. Today i will like to share a worst experience with a tenant.

My dad happens to be a landlord so we have met alot of tenants.

There was a stubborn tenant that rented a 3 bedroom flat worth 300k. He told my dad he will pay 250k now when he has the remaining he will pay. That's when the notoreity started. The tenant refused to pay the 50k, despite my dad's constant reminder.

When his rent expires he said he will soon pay that he needs more time, that he wants to pay everything at once. The next time my dad ask him, he said he is in financial crises all this was while i was in school. When i came back for end of semester break i still heard that the man hasn't paid his rent. I began pressuring my dad to collect this rent, the tenant has spent over 5months without paying a dime. My dad said the man lost his uncle and went for burial recently. Thats when i realize he has been given excuse to my dad for a very long time.

After sometimes i told my dad not to allow the man stay one more month without paying. My dad threaten to bring the police and take him to court. The man blocked my dad number, then my dad called him with another number when he picked and discover it was my dad he claim he didnt see my dad's initial call that he was sick. The man then switched off his phone.

We decided to go to meet the man together with a lawyer but he was not around. I placed a 2month notice and that he must pay for the months he has stayed in the house. After a week the man called with a new number pleading that he should not be evicted. He asked for my dad's account number so that he will pay. The man send 50k only. My dad told him he just completed his last year rent and will have to pay for the current year. The man refused. After the two months my dad changed the door lock thereby preventing him from getting inside even though his stuffs are inside.

After a month, a woman from the Neighborhood told my dad that the man we evicted is still living in the house. He usually comes in late at around 11-12pm and goes out around 7am. The next day we arrived there few minutes past 6 but the man has already gone. We discover that he changed the lock to the house. We end up confiscating all his properties and emptied his room. Till today he is yet to be found.

I have others stories about other tenants but i will love to hear your story. Over to you.

What is your worst experience with a tenant?

feldido:
Na why I de worry ooo, sometimes 3 times in a week.
I mean completely burnt, the whole compound will be smelling like burnt offering.

nasoeb:
Am currently skeptical in giving out one of mine because of issues like these. If you give to someone you know, some may/will turn around to take advantage of you, and if you give to thore you know nothing about, what then becomes of you.

LadySarah:
Our tenant an aged couple occupying the BQ converted TheWC toilets to pit style, the type you squat down. I noticed it while I was making rounds.
This man denied claiming it was how it was when they packed in. We called the contractor they said it wasn't them. It took going back and forth before the occupants in the main building confronted the man that there were around the day it was being done.

Last last he begged that it was more convenient for his sick wife than the original one.
We were amazed. Worst was that it now looks so unattractive.

Berween sitting and squatting, which is more convenient? I still wonder. We have told them that they will change it while packing out.

NoToPile:
If I talk ehn book go full.

Mumsies tenants and their wahala.

The one that was reminded about his rent being due that said it skipped his mind

The ones that will never pay NEPA bills, you were owing about 24k and then prepaid came, ekedc diverted all the debt to the prepaid you now said you won't pay it ,you now expected the new tenant that came in that you are sharing the prepaid with that is not owing kobo to pay the debt on the prepaid, who does that.

The ones that always pay rent in arrears, you would have used 6months before paying 6 months rent again and then you use the next 6 months to be asking for rent (we felt maybe yearly rent is too much out be paying 6monthd now wahala again).

One is presently owing 7 months areas now, the money she dropped early this year will elapse november last year.

The one that was owing NEPA bills of 17k and couldn't pay 120k rent for self con, oya pack out now, we wipe off the 120k just pay the 17k NEPA bill as that one is not our own money its nepas money and it will reflect when prepaid comes. Shishi he didn't drop, we had to pay that debt when they installed the prepaid abi shey its new tenant that will pay debt on prepaid?

I must confess since we got the prepaid meters wahala has been reduced,although there's a stubborn one that is refusing to pay her own share as she is sharing a prepaid with another person, how will you expect someone to be buying units for you. How these people sleep at night baffles me.

I don't blame harsh landlords, in all honesty I don't. Those ones ehn you dare not try rubbish with them.

I also find it annoying when people think you are wicked when you ask them for rent.

Amyyy2020:
Heyyyyy
Any more self-con available?

ND, where is the location pls?

NoToPile:
Nope not available .
It's ijanikin LAGOS.

okine4real:
The mistake you guys made. Never ever share prepaid meter with any tenants.If your house have 10 rooms, give each room its own prepaid meter, don't merge two rooms to use one prepaid meter. If you really want to solve problems of NEPA, give each tenants his/her own prepaid meter. Mine house has 6 flats, I booked for 7 prepaid meters. The borehole is having its own prepaid meter. The service charge would take care of the units to be bought for the pumping machine.

Dpsychologist:
Kaduna.
The rent is ok abi?

Amyyy2020:
What's d location and what type is the house...
I'm searching for a house to rent

joyfullyjoyous:
Many are mad but few ate roaming.
Seems the law is more in favour of the tenants than landlords reason most of them misbehave. One rented an apartment n stayed extra three years without paying a dime. She claimed she was building her own house n would soon pack out She was always promising to pay. Her daughter is a lawyer n perhaps she felt she was covered but I know she will eventually get rewarded for her wickedness. Mrs Yinka Salam,wherever u r just know that someday you will get your reward as what goes around comes around.
Another who we learnt was staying in a room apartment cane to rent a two bedroom flat. He also owed for over two years before leaving. The day he was packing out I almost called in the police but later had a change of mind.
It's high time the govt reviewed tenancy law as it's giving wicked tenants more power. Abroad you can't misbehave. You can't owe for too long else your load would be thrown outside.
As bad as our law is a tenant owing for 5 years if taken to court may end up staying another 5years without paying. This is too bad

ghettochild:
They shd buy prepaid meter from china

okine4real:
Definely the house will always undergo repairs. I don't joke with mine house ohh. This year alone I have spend close to 200k doing one repair or the other... If I leave the repair undone, the problem would expand. After like three years Max, I would paint again. The senerio is, as a landlord don't be greedy, spend money on your house, so when you want to increase, know body go complain.

Another mistake landlords make is, you collect cheap rent, when you collect cheap rent, where do you want to get money to be used to maintain your house? If I have a room and parlor self contain and you paying 300k for city ohh, if anything spoil, I can't come and fix it, the 300k know reach me self for a year, but if tenants are paying 500k, I can still spend 100k to maintain the house for the tenants yearly. As a landlord, if you don't get things right from the beginning, you would be putting yourself in big trouble.

okine4real:
Your house is a cheap house.when your house is expensive, your tenants would not even stay at the balcony. Observe these am saying, any house that the rent is high, you will never see the tenants at the balcony, na people when know get work they stay balcony ohh...As I said earlier on,nif you get it wrong from the beginning, it would be difficult to correct the wrongs. Concert your house to room and parlor self contain... Increase the rents and let the tenants pay service charge, your house to start to they make sense.

Thank me later.

odimbannamdi:
Seriously? Will it work? How will it be configured to suit our system?

feldido:
Shey you want make she burn my house?
Which landlord no go worry?

Dpsychologist:
Lol. They don't have money to pay bill but they can buy wire upto 5 times and still call someone to join the light for them.