Landlords and landladies these days are so wicked it is unbleievable....
They have no empathy at all and will just wake up and announce rent increment or sale of house...Their wicked act has left a lot of people homeless and out on the streets or begging for money to rent other places...
Was your rent increased recently? Or did you find yourself and your properties outside because the landlord threw you out? what happened?
I dont even want to includ what Lawyers and house angents do to people all in the name of agreement and caution....Sometimes the monies these two sets of people collect is even more than the rent...Sometimes its the landlord acting as both...lol
Lets gist!!
My present situation right now,
ReplyDeleteWe pay 300k for a two bed,,they sold our compound, and the new landlady increased it to 600k,I now decided to move to one bed, they are saying it's 500k,am yet to find 450,my rent is expiring at the end of this month.lm thinking of retaining the place,cos if I pay 500k,at the end of the day, I'll pay more than7 to 800k, it's really bad in pH.
That must be the market rate if not you would have moved
DeleteThis is outrageous.
DeleteI pray God comes through for you.
Eeeya, things we experience...can you plead with the new landlady to reduce rent? Considering you as an existing tenant 🥺
DeleteUna just dey enjoy house rent for PH oo 600k for 2bedroom? My dear retain it. Hopefully you will be able to complete the money
DeleteFan Emmanuel
Our house was sold in June, the new landlord increase the rent to 100%. Even agency will be paid. We went as tenant to complain that it's too much,we were given quit notice to quit in September
ReplyDeleteWe have contacted lawyer to help us get 6 months a least. The New landlord said we are not her tenant that she can't give us that time. That we should quit highest this month
It's well. We are only left at the mercy of God and our lawyer
Even if your lawyer is able to get you 6 months are you aware that you will still pay for the six months because it's not free accommodation.
DeleteIt is so sad that in Nigeria where people don't pay mortgage on their houses choose to increase house rent arbitrarily that's wickedness.
ReplyDeleteI remember when we were still in Portharcourt. My mum rented a shop in a remote area around etche region. There was no single provision store when we started.. We were making sales like, in fact, sometimes people queue to buy from us. We sell everything, provisions, soup items, frozen foods, eggs, drinks, recharge cards,fuel , snacks etc.
ReplyDeleteWhen it was time to renew the rent, Landlord increased it by 100%... My mum agreed to pay after begging and negotiation... Only for the landlord to state that his wife wanted to use the shop and that we should move out.
We left there to another place, and the woman did not stay in the shop for 3 month.
Chai
DeleteThis is where the Chinese are good
They will sell something to you for 10 cents. They will see you selling it for $3 and they will big try to collect that business. This landlady saw you peoples business and figured she can be making that money instead of sticking to her rental
Not try*
DeleteOurs also was sold and New owners gave us till December next month🥲
ReplyDeleteI'm house hunting as i type. What i dread most in Lagos .
God pls help me.
Any kind hearted agent here....
A room self con at least 400k around Yaba, Ojuelegba, outer part of Mushin pls help Me oo🙏🏻
400k for selfcon? Nne na wa o.
DeleteSeems like we are enjoying here o.
NK baby of the most high 😘 I pray you get a situation house soon.
*suitable house
DeleteThank you Osundi Nwanem 🙏🏻
DeleteI pray u see a good house for that amount....cos as at 2022 a room self contain in those area u mentioned was 350-400k
DeleteI experienced this 6 years ago and it was a hunted house oh, we all left the upstairs and to the glory of God things turned out well. Our present compound needs a facelift that I can't even bring some of my friends home because of shame. We can't move out either because it's a peaceful house and the landlord doesn't increase the rent anyhow but he is very very old that I fear when he departs his children may be mean to the tenants.
ReplyDeleteSudden increase on rent nowaday is so alarming and frustrating 😞
ReplyDeleteMay God help us 🙏
Please Stella don’t make it seem like all landlords are bad , even when you don’t increase rent some tenants will and have refused to pay rent.How can you live in another person’s house and refuse to pay rent? A lot of landlords built these houses under sweat and tears to help feed and pay school fees. Some tenants will owe you , wait for you to go to court and then move out quickly without paying what they owe you. The economic situation is on everyone, how long do you expect the Landlord to give Grace? A lot of Tenants are heartless!! I as a tenant can never owe rent, that is the first thing ( shelter) then food,at times I don’t have food but I always have a place to lay my head. You have the whole year to get your rent together.
ReplyDeleteThe courts need to step in
DeleteThat’s why people are selling off and the landlords are getting more hardened
Exactly what I wanted to say. At least most Nigerians even know who their landlord is to beg them and many enjoy extended grace periods. You see abroad eh, nothing like landlord for most apartments. If you don't pay after due date, late fees start to add up, once grace period is over, they call the cops. You'll be kicked out, your debt sent to collections agency, your credit destroyed. Your landlord na banks and corporations. The people you see managing the apartments are employees and can't help you. Except for states that now have policies prohibiting kicking out tenants. Basic rent is going for $2500/room right now in my state. May God help us all 🙏🏾
DeleteCops do not kick tenants out. They take you to court and the courts kick you out. Not the cops.
DeleteOh wow.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was alone in this new landlord and house rent increase issues.
Worst is that looking for new house is not easy at all, plus the money and the increased rate are almost same (in same area because of work proximity) and you have to include agents fee, agreement and so on which person no get.
God will help his children.
Personally, I believe investing in realestate in Nigeria is not wise. Where do I even start? Tenants will give you story, house value you thought is appreciating is only over run by inflation. You will end up being called wicked and insensitive if you try to make tenants pay and hold up their end of the contract.
ReplyDeleteI have dis house issue on my mind b4 I sleep thiz afternon, let me pour my mind here, in my own case the govt came in Sept n paste one paper on d house Dat iz distress structure n the houz is nt strong n so many faults on d building. Oct last month dey bring another paper n paste that they give us warning to vacate the house because of risks to tenants. we cal landlord snap d 2 papers n send to him, he come to d house 2 see it, he went 2 council to talk to dem but they didn't gree. Some tenants have leave alrdy, some of us r still remaining in d compound, no money to rent another house becoz of d high prices landlord n agents r calling. The council people came last week tocheck the house again, dey snap picture n do video of d house. The landlord on his own call people 2 open all chambers down, all d compound now is smelling of poo becos of d chambers Dat is opened. They also break open all d pipes carrying poo n water for Barlthing open, everything is smelling, it's just to hope n belive on God nw
ReplyDeleteI will be forever be grateful to our former landlord. Till we moved out of that place the rent increased only twice and it was not much. God continue to rest Baba soul. Such a kind man.
ReplyDeleteHouse hunting now is not for the faint hearted o. Even remote areas are collecting be huge amount of money.
In my area,there are more wicked tenants than landlords. Living rent free and doing case with the landlords,instead of paying rent. 🙄🙄🙄
ReplyDeleteNa so we see am here ooo, when landlord was alive, we were paying 80k for the selfcon. Though is old house , but when I moved in i did a lot of repairs, roof, doors, toilet and I shared the bill with our landlord.
ReplyDeleteNow landlord is dead, after two months, landlady said all selfcon is double of the previous amount.
Meaning 160k, how do you increase rent in this economy like that, no empathy at all. WE begged and begged, all she said is, if you don't like it pack and go. That she knows how much people pay in Port Harcourt.
Now you are comparing Port Harcourt with this part of rivers, forgetting this is village and old house for that matter.
Story long abeg😔
WE MOVE!!
Anonymous 15:23, u are very correct, when we building our house some yrs back, the bricklayer helped us to construct 2 self con, when I saw it I said I don't want tenancy wahala, we decided that we will use for visitors but when armed robbers before he paid people said we shld rent it out, since then, it's one problem after the other, they will only pay for the first year, u see the subsequent one, Na wahala, one of them said he was deported, beginning my hubby to pls collect six months, out of pity he did, he didn't pay , it was after 1yr we asked him to pack out.
ReplyDeleteTill now nobody occupy it, my hubby said, it's better that way. In our environment, self con, is Around 250 but my hubby collects 200k yet they will not pay. At times it's the tenant that causes trouble.
nobody collect it n u r proud 2 say it. will it remov sth from yr bodies if u rent it out 2 pple Dat nid it for 200k? Is u pple r d plomblem we v in d state. U dnt v mercy for pple u n yr husbzbd
DeleteThe landlady of the house my mum lives did small renovation for the house and she added 150k to the rent. na wa.
ReplyDeleteIn my own case they painted the wall and increased rent from 280-400k
ReplyDeleteOur landlord increased from ₦1m to ₦1.8m we begged to take ₦1.3 he didn't agree. Is 2 bed apartment.
ReplyDeleteI hope he won't increase it again.
The landlord of my friend wrote him the next re t will be in dollar rate.
O su mi ooo
Big man area, big wahala
DeleteNa our tenant be our problem.This man was owing my dad six months rent.my dad had to call the wife to ask when they'll pay him she said in two weeks time, two weeks elapsed my.dad asked him about the rent he's wife said they will pay in two weeks time he told my dad he wasn't the one that asked her to say they would pay in two weeks time
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, abeg if u don't understand, pls don't shook mouth, for good fifteen yrs we have not made 50,000 profit, abeg leave it, it's our property not urs. They will rent house and damage it, when another person comes, we will use his rentage to repair becos we don't want trouble. Pls don't put mouthing what u don't have the details.
ReplyDeleteWe have two self contain, one is occupied now and he is owing 1yr rent and u are shooting mouth in what u don't have the full details. I don't want wahala pls free me
ReplyDeleteLagos Agents are the weapon fashioned against tenants
ReplyDeleteI always advice prospective landlords not to invest in residential properties, if you do just know that you are running an NGO because tenants will owe you better invest in commercial properties like shops it is easier to manage. For my 25 years in property management I can never invest in residential. When it's time to renew their rent the kind of excuses you will be hearing eeh even you will be weak because they will make you look very insensitive like you don't have empathy,meanwhile some of them will get the money instead of paying they will reinvest it when the deal knock then their eyes go clear.
ReplyDeleteIrony of life, some landlords are very kind but the tenants are wicked and insensitive.
ReplyDeleteBut some tenants are good and the landlord is very wicked. So it both ways.
Our present landlord is over 80, very considerate and kind. For over ten years he did not increase rent. When he finally did he asked for our opinion. Despite this 2 out of 4 tenants are always owing baba.
My family is praying and working towards having our own property because baba is old, if anything happens today we never can tell what his children will do.
Some tenants are terrible also the landlord too. If you know you not got the rent complete speak to the landlord before hand. I do that and my landlord understands me. I give him his respect and I respect myself too.My last landlord was crazy with surrounding looking dirty. It was a large family they use firewood, there wasn't water and he didn't care since the children will go fetch water.He sold charcoal, reared goats , chicken and the compound started to irritate me. I moved to my present place even though it is a bit expensive but I got peace of mind but now my neighbor be my issue now she nur dey mind her business kinda old mama in her 50s. Me wey like my quietness she go bring food, greet tired ooo. I will just answer and go straight to my house. My wife is worst that one she no want problem she dey on her own, dis mama nur gree. We call her mama Mai Angwar. She nur dey stay one place and she like cho cho too. Imagine she seeing me and asking how was my night in the present of my wife.
ReplyDeletePraise the Lord, that was our story early this year before God shows up for us, our landlady increase rent for one bed from 300k to 450k but God no shame us
ReplyDeleteOmor currently having house issues. Landlord gave everyone quit notice because he wants to renovate house and this came in unexpectedly and duration giving is so short.
ReplyDeleteAgents are not helping matters at all. To rent selfcon here is between 350-500k, lawyer and caution fee 200k, Agent fee 200k. I was told they no longer collect 10% for some rents except it runs in millions. They give you any bill they want.
How will people survive if there are no regulations to these fees.
Just wondering the way forward because moving houses unexpectedly without plans and with these high prices can be so frustrating 😔