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I read a thread today concerning what a tenant did to the building of a landlord and some people were indirectly hailing the person that destroyed someone's hard work which is a shame.
Let me tell a bit about my story.

I rented an apartment in my house to a tenant. On the tenancy agreement, it states that the tenant will keep the house in the same condition he met it when he pack in, which is the reason people charge caution fee to replace anything broken by the tenant during their stay.

The tenant broke the of the agreement multiple times but as human, you have to feel for others
When the tenant rent expired, I went to him and told him that his rent have expired and he was supposed to come to me to renew or not to renew the agreement and he lashes at me that I am not being considerate that his girlfriend just gave birth and he spent money in the hospital.
That has got nothing to do with me really but the manner in which he spoke to me. I also have been a tenant and my rent have expired, but upon expiry, I meet the landlord and explain that I don't have enough money to pay immediately, and if he can give me time, I'd complete it.
I believe that humans are reasonable and the landlord let me stay and I always paid. I was the one that used wisdom to approach the landlord.

This my tenant upon expiry of his rent agreement refused to leave or make payment to continue rental agreement and I found out that it was another tenant was the one engineering him, telling him that 'I' the landlord is very calm and weak that I won't do anything to him.

I gave him quit notice and after 6 months of the quit notice, he still refused to move out. He lived another 2 months before someone told me to report the matter to local government area Council, they have people that deals with this kind of issues.
After which he was summoned to appear in court, he was told that if he doesn't pack out, government will come and arrest him and made to pay for everything even during those months of quit notice which he lived for free.

He told the other tenant that was engineering him and the tenant told him to avoid government trouble and pack out. After he did, I went to check on the apartment. He destroyed the wiring, the half moon bulbs, took 2 kitchen cooker installed in his apartment worth over ₦13,000 each, destroyed the toilet tank for WC, took my change over switch I installed in every apartment. I called our area security to come and see, other tenant as well, and other landlords around my area to see what a tenant owing me over 8 month's rent, doesn't pay for any work done in the compound and refuses to participate in compound sanitation did.

All the landlord association around where I live have decided to file a motion in court to make amendments to landlord/Tenant Act.

Which states that a landlord can enter a tenants house, like it is done in the US, Europe for inspection and if there are any damages, the tenants will repair it promptly. Or we begin charging huge sum in caution fee.

My mistake was that I never charged any of my tenants caution fee, believing the agent that brought him to me saying he is a calm guy and trying to be reasonable with my tenants because someone did it to me. (I believe that one good turn deserves another)

Also the tenant that has been engineering him will leave as well.
He is into shady dealing and I don't want one day EFCC will burst into my compound and break down my door as I have been seeing in the media in order to arrest him.

These tenant showed me why the Bible says the heart of man is desperately wicked.

I must do due diligence before renting my apartments to any prospective tenants in the future

I hope this gets to front page so that some people may learn

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Abaziaka:
I once asked my father about reincarnation after so much comparison about me and my grand dad, and here were his words.
As a Christian no, because the holy book says for it's appointed for a man to die once after that is judgment.
But as an Africa man, reincarnation is real yesteryears, today, and will continue to manifest in our tomorrow's.
So reincarnation is real.

Elijah came back as John the Baptist. Ask anyone that knows the scriptures. Please try to know the scriptures yourself

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I read a thread today concerning what a tenant did to the building of a landlord and some people were indirectly hailing the person that destroyed someone's hard work which is a shame.
Let me tell a bit about my story.

I rented an apartment in my house to a tenant. On the tenancy agreement, it states that the tenant will keep the house in the same condition he met it when he pack in, which is the reason people charge caution fee to replace anything broken by the tenant during their stay.

The tenant broke the of the agreement multiple times but as human, you have to feel for others
When the tenant rent expired, I went to him and told him that his rent have expired and he was supposed to come to me to renew or not to renew the agreement and he lashes at me that I am not being considerate that his girlfriend just gave birth and he spent money in the hospital.
That has got nothing to do with me really but the manner in which he spoke to me. I also have been a tenant and my rent have expired, but upon expiry, I meet the landlord and explain that I don't have enough money to pay immediately, and if he can give me time, I'd complete it.
I believe that humans are reasonable and the landlord let me stay and I always paid. I was the one that used wisdom to approach the landlord.

This my tenant upon expiry of his rent agreement refused to leave or make payment to continue rental agreement and I found out that it was another tenant was the one engineering him, telling him that 'I' the landlord is very calm and weak that I won't do anything to him.

I gave him quit notice and after 6 months of the quit notice, he still refused to move out. He lived another 2 months before someone told me to report the matter to local government area Council, they have people that deals with this kind of issues.
After which he was summoned to appear in court, he was told that if he doesn't pack out, government will come and arrest him and made to pay for everything even during those months of quit notice which he lived for free.

He told the other tenant that was engineering him and the tenant told him to avoid government trouble and pack out. After he did, I went to check on the apartment. He destroyed the wiring, the half moon bulbs, took 2 kitchen cooker installed in his apartment worth over ₦13,000 each, destroyed the toilet tank for WC, took my change over switch I installed in every apartment. I called our area security to come and see, other tenant as well, and other landlords around my area to see what a tenant owing me over 8 month's rent, doesn't pay for any work done in the compound and refuses to participate in compound sanitation did.

All the landlord association around where I live have decided to file a motion in court to make amendments to landlord/Tenant Act.

Which states that a landlord can enter a tenants house, like it is done in the US, Europe for inspection and if there are any damages, the tenants will repair it promptly. Or we begin charging huge sum in caution fee.

My mistake was that I never charged any of my tenants caution fee, believing the agent that brought him to me saying he is a calm guy and trying to be reasonable with my tenants because someone did it to me. (I believe that one good turn deserves another)

Also the tenant that has been engineering him will leave as well.
He is into shady dealing and I don't want one day EFCC will burst into my compound and break down my door as I have been seeing in the media in order to arrest him.

These tenant showed me why the Bible says the heart of man is desperately wicked.

I must do due diligence before renting my apartments to any prospective tenants in the future

I hope this gets to front page so that some people may learn

chatinent:


How did you know another tenant told him you are weak and calm?

People talk. He wasn't the only 1 he said it to.
And the guy is into shady dealing. I don't need shady characters in my building

honour7:
If not for greed why would anyone collect a caution fee of 250k. I bet you the agent refused to return the caution fee when the tenant said he is packing out hence the damages.

You don't know what caution fee means do you?.
It means after your stay, they owner of the property will come to check on it and if there are any damages, the caution fee will be used to replace it and the balance will be given to the person upon their exit from the house

condralbedez:

So are you going to increase the caution fee to another tenant Since you keep shouting what's 250k,most of those agents are the real evil

Another tenant will bear the brunt of what this tenant from hell did

chatinent:
So where's the picture of the house before the tenant parked in?

Not presented.

How much was the full package?

Not presented.

I don't know if you are worried about the damages or you are worried about the caution fee and what ensued.

So I'll analyse based on the thin line connecting your worries...


From my observation, the bone of contention is the payment of the caution fee. You refused to refund the sum and the tenant took it out on you. Many landlords become fraudsters when tenants want to pack out and refuse to refund the caution fee they once said was refundable.

That moment, these fraudulent agents and landlords will start giving you excuses or promise to pay at a later date so you can park out first and they take over the house...which they will NEVER pay.

Madness is mutual.

As you felt you wanted to be street smart, you just got served by the street.

The tenant prolly wants you to use the caution fee he paid to fix the house he DELIBERATELY destroyed...so that he wouldn't be at the losing side.

Caution fee is a SCAM.

In fact, why aren't you taking legal moves? Abi there is something you aren't saying?


By the way, there's no way you took ₦250k as caution fee for this house. Everybody no bi mumu here ok?

Let's not even forget how much they could have taken from the tenant. From my analysis:

1. Rent: ₦3,000,000 per annum and they are collected for two years which is ₦6,000,000 (not worth it if you ask me).

2. Agent fee: ₦2,500,000 (say wetin dey happen?)

3. Agreement: ₦500,000 (am I the one to draft an agreement for you?)

4. Caution: ₦1,000,000 (they never pay back!)

5. Lawyer: ₦300,000 (why am I paying the lawyer for you!)

6. Security: ₦360,000 annually. (Why should I pay you to pay the security! We can do that in the compound!)

7. Borehole and Space: ₦100,000 (seriously?)
Space at the back for bakery: ₦200,000 yearly (no issues here).

8. Cleaning Services: ₦300k. (You even begged them to minus this part because you can clean it yourself and they responded with "oga if you aren't serious to pay, we will give the house to the person who is serious." Oh my God!

You even borrowed some money to fully cover all these expenses with high interest rates!

Some people will think I bloated the figures above. I actually didn't. In fact, I may be wrong and it may be more expensive than what I posted. These agents add unnecessary figures to the full package. Most times, the agent fee is more expensive than the house.






Let's not even pretend like we didn't see the substandard doors used...

Most times sef, na tenants dey design the interior to be a bit standard to their taste. When you enter a new space, if it's not fixing front and back burglaries, it's fixing the kitchen sink or the toilet drain, or giving a part of the tile work some more structural strength make enno break. Or probably electricals. When you the landlord for all these you are doing, he gives an excuse that it's to your comfort and you shouldn't expect him to do it for you. Then you repaint cos they refused to use quality paints. They couldn't even screed the parlour! And the kitchen master switch for plugging microwaves, electric cookers are always mostly faulty. Or is it the toilet wey one of the mansons don use strong shït block? After this, NEPA will still now bring bills for two months earlier to you of ₦200k with a threat to cut your light if you no pay....months that you didn't use since you are a new tenant. And wow, you see it's a prepaid metre but you don't even know how they calculated it since you've not used it. Now you are spending close to ₦1.5m for pre-maintenance because you like to tidy things up. Not just that, there's no provision of a generator for pumping water and the landlord rebukes you guys never to call him for that..and you guys should fix yourself...after en don collect two years house rent...and you are like.. "I'm fûcked." And you also know that you cannot allow yourself be cheated! Even the gate has some breakage before you packed in and the landlord is saying you folks should fix it..and you guys did. After packing, you later discover you'll still have to pay for estate security and you ask why since you have paid and they tell you that's for the compound not the estate. Wow, wonderful.

And you are alive and seeing your fellow human being rip you off with pride because you have paid for two years and it seems like there is nothing you can do at this juncture... after all, they said the landlord is in the UK. Right deep in your sef, you know the agent and the landlord's brother in Nigeria collected more than the usual rent too but you can't talk because you know you are now a silent coward and you really can't talk about it to anyone.

Please, what will you do if they still try to defraud you of your ₦1m caution fee? Just be honest.


Y'all have rented houses at a point in your lives and you know this is true.


Before you ask me if I own a house to judge, yes I do. I own, and I have also been a tenant.


Now within yourself, make una talk true. Let's assume you are a gentleman and tried to be peaceful to get the refund, no way. You begged, no way. You even said you have a burial to sponsor, no way. You told them you need the money for a hospital bill, no way. You asked why they don't want to pay you, agent dey yarn okoto, lawyer say make you chat landlord , landlord off read receipts on whastapp. You notice dem dey whine you cos are cool headed. After being extorted of all these sums and you ask for the refund of your caution fee and they are still trying to play smart on you, what will you do? Just be honest.

Wouldn't you unleash the madness in you too? Or you'll leave everything for God? ₦1m? If I no naked swear for you, call me pastard. Ajeh, this one the guy did will be dress rehearsals.

Please speak only what you know. I rented my house to a tenant. On the rent agreement, it states that the tenant will keep the house in the same condition he met it when he pack in, which is the reason people charge caution fee to replace anything broken by the tenant during their stay.
Not only did the tenant refuse to leave after his rent expired, another tenant was the one gingering him , telling him that I the landlord is very calm and weak that I won't do anything to him. I gave him quit notice and after 6 months of the quit notice, he still refused to move out. He lived another 2 months before someone told me to report the matter to local government area Council, they have people that deals with this kind of issues. After the summoned him to appear in court, he was told that if he doesn't pack out, government will come and arrest him and made to pay for everything even during those months of quit notice when he was living for free.
He told the other tenant that was engineering him and the tenant told him to avoid government trouble and pack out. After he did, I went to check on the apartment. He destroyed the wiring, the half moon bulbs, took 2 kitchen cooker installed in his apartment worth over ₦13,000 each, destroyed the toilet tank for WC, took my change over switch I installed in every apartment. I called our area security to come and see, other tenant, and other landlords around my area to see what a tenant owing me over 8 month's rent, doesn't pay for any work done in the compound and refuses to participate in compound sanitation.

All the landlord association around where I live have decided to file a motion in court to make amendments to tenant/ landlord agreement that a landlord can enter a tenants house, like it is done in the US, Europe for inspection and if there are any damages, the tenants will repair it promptly. Or we begin charging huge sum in caution fee.
My mistake was that I never charged any of my tenants caution fee, and I tried to be a reasonable person, but this tenant showed me why the Bible says the heart of man is desperately wicked

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It blows when my team loses, but all the banter makes it lively and fun and engaging

Isn't God wonderful?

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Serious & ready to settle down


He knows you are his wife in a day , don’t let any man string you along me in this journey settling down intentionally

If you observe my previous post where I came out publicly to announce my intention of settling down to marry is the boldness and audacity to change the narrative and assumptions that I am taken or married but will soon get marry by the grace of God , people assume career women aren’t family oriented or we are so focus in succeeding in our career as a results of bad breakups and we claim we don’t need men in our life , which is a false narrative

I hope I have inspire women to be bold and publicize the need to settle down don’t allow any one tag you desperate or expire , you are not , you are enough

If you are like me that work from home for many years and you are introverted and dont like going out

Use social media to your advantage

More series of journey towards settling down

Much love ❤️

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I hope it works out for you

Ironfaceman:
Don't think everyone you meet on nairaland is like you.

I am LARGE but I don't brag.

I am way larger by the grace of God. I stopped making noise a long time ago. Don't confuse me with riff Raff on Nairalande.

Ironfaceman:
One thing is certain in all this. Trump is a fraud and a rabble ro. To settle dispute of this magnitude. It entails wisdom which he's deficient of.

You a man of wisdom, have you achieve quarter what he has at your age?

AllBlack:
you can imagine how the 300 wives were dragging King Solomon.

Forget wives what about mothers in law

Bendeco02:
The man is more beautiful than many women

Why are you gae

Many people are not doing bad things because of religion, they have conscience that is judging them about what they are doing or about to do. If you take it away, they will be worse that Babylon

Sharpsharp00123:
a prophet to Igbos, a clown to others.

Same way nnamdiot kanu is a strong man to igbos n tissue paper to others

Same way Peter obi is okwute to u Igbos but ordinary tissue paper to others

Get ready for president Odumeje.
He will be traveling to and speaking queens English

Those countries are heavily reliant on experts from countries in ECOWAS and hitting them with 0.5% levy means the people importing to those countries would have to Jack up their prices to maintain equilibrium.

The final consumers are the ones that will have to pay for it. And the end, marketers will not lose a penny

PrivateSeal:
I know the guy, he use to work for Zenith Bank

I know the girl or knew, she was a nurse and friend of my sis

kenmaro:
Yeah, I was on MTN always-on 45gb monthly. I switched to airtel everyday plan since MTN delist theirs and I have been on Airtel yet MTN still sends me notification of daily data usage as I had about 9gb unused data at expiration. I am wondering how this is possible when I am not using my MTN line for data on my phone. I switched to Airtel data on the 13/03/2025. This is criminality!

How does the Airtel work so that I can buy Airtel SIM and

Samantha125:
Since when do men indicate to their women that their machines are not working?🤔🤔🤔

These are the kind of conversations that should happen during courtship

Samantha125:
How is the lady supposed to test the guy's machine if she says no to premarital sex?

Perhaps any man whose machine isn't working should indicate to any interested lady

Please my fellow Nairalanders, as we all know, things have changed. which is the best data plan on MTN right now, because my always on no longer works and how to activate it. Thanks in advance for everyone's input

KingAzubuike:
Wrong.
Its supposed to be the immediate younger brother of the late father.

A situation where the late father doesn't have a younger brother, his immediate elder brother should stand. If he doesn't have then his father should stand.

Do you think all this weren't consideref before it was agreed that he is the only male in the family?

Acekidc4:
All this boys are Big Drug dealers Lowkey. All this their entertainment Jobs are just for cover up.

If you know you know. No time to check time. All way Na Way💯😎

Drug dealers drug dealers. Where exactly do they see the drugs. Does drug fall from heaven unto their laps?

yarimo:
Most of them are owners of fake drugs shops in that market criminals parading themselves as lawmakers

How did customs let the drugs enter the country

RandDigital:
Nigerian haters will be happy to hear as Trump offers Afrikaner farmers refugee visas, there are others from UK, Israel and Southern Africa wishing to fill their space 😎

All these farmers, would they be enough to tackle food security?

CoronaVirusPro:
And those 70% that don’t pay are the ones who want Nigeria to sur the UK.

They cannot pay in Nigeria but will run to another country to go pay same taxes.

Your naivety amazes me

Zonefree:
A fool and his money are soon parted.

Book of Proverbs, preach brother

illicit:
This is not unusual...

It's called phonics

Phonetics not phonics