CHRONICLE OF A MARRIED MAN - EVERY FRIDAY

In this my life, I have lived in many rented apartments and I have seen and unseen.I have been fortunate to have mostly good landlords except for two...

After the experience my friend's family had with their landlord who lived in the same building with them, I made up my mind from a young age that I would not rent any apartment that has either the landlord or landlady living in the same compound.

My friend's landlord was sleeping with his teenage sister, then told them he gave them six months rent for free, telling them he was considering that they struggled to pay the full rent. They kept paying for six months every year, wondering what came over Baba, not knowing that Baba was enjoying the remaining money in kind.
This Baba had previously been threatening them with a quit notice at any slight misunderstanding as he was very troublesome. Always fighting his tenants and giving them quit notice.
When he made passes at ths innocent girl, she obliged so that he would let her struggling parents to breathe.
The bubble bursted when he got the girl pregnant again after several abortions and she was told she may die if she tried abortion again. Pregnancy became wahala and Baba ran to one of his other houses in town where one of his wives lived. He didn't show his face till the girl gave birth and even after that.
He kept sending his wife to collect rent and refused to show. She was 19yrs old by then.
Her parents did one thing. They lived in that house for free for ten more years till the Baba died and his family sold it. Before they moved out, they dragged Baba's family to court and collected a share for their child, in millions of naira.
My first incident was with the landlord of one of the houses where I lived as a bachelor.
You see, there was no landlord/landlady in the compound when I moved in and I was happy. Then one tenant moved out and this Baba moved in with his brand new wife, he later left the wife in the flat after some months and moved back in with his first wife (some women are nice sha. I can't try that with my wife, babe is strong-hearted for life. She will show me shege banza kawai!)
After Baba left, this young landlady transfered all her frustrations on we the innocent tenants.
My eyes saw shege banza. At a point, she started making passes at me, omoh, I ran for my dear life.
The second incident was when I newly married.
The house was put up for sale and a fellow tenant bought it. He didn't evict us but he and his wife showed us pepper. This former nice neigbour-turned landlord changed to something else after buying the house.
He banned generator in the house but he was using his own.
10:pm was when the gate was locked, if you come back after that time, you sleep out.
If you have more than one visitor at a time spending some days with you, he will tell you to pay extra money for the extra utilities and the person must not stay for more than three months. So in his house, you can't help a stranded person with accommodation for more than three months.
No loud music was allowed, when a tenant gives birth and wants to celebrate naming ceremony, he has to go outside the compound despite the fact that there was enough space in the compound..
He would not fix any faulty part of the house.
Prepaid meters were not rampant then. He was in charge of collecting the NEPA bill but would not pay it, our light would be disconnected, he would still collect money from us to buy fuel in his generator for pumping water. We would be in darkness for weeks before he would go and pay. 
The above were just some of the wahalas.
I didn't spend up to one extra year there after he became the landlord.
After I had left, I heard that one of the tenants beat him till he fainted before leaving the house.