Winners emerge in Sack Your Landlord Essay Competition 2016

After two weeks of fierce competition among Ten contestants, Three have emerged as eventual winners in the annual Sack Your Landlord Essay Competition for the year 2016. 

Cynthia Omo, Maureen Alikor, and Egume Oghenekevbe emerged the Sack Your Landlord Essay Competition 2016 winners, and they took home the prize of a Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone respectively in the award-giving ceremony which held on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Cynthia finished with a total of 2121 points to claim top spot from Maureen Alikor who managed 1567 points. Egume Oghenekevbe finished in Third place with a total of 686.5 points. Only Cynthia and Egume were able to make it to the event, as Maureen was inevitably absent.

 

The Sack Your Landlord Essay Competition is an annual event sponsored by Realty Point Limited, one of Nigeria’s top Real Estate Development Companies. The competition is aimed at highlighting the plights and good memories of Tenants with their Landlords, in order to inspire current or prospective tenants to aspire to become landlords of their own, and to make landlords more conscious of their attitude to their tenants. This is in line with the company’s mission to help everyone get a roof over their head, regardless of their income bracket.

The Competition

The competition involves contestants sending in a short story about their best or worst experience with their landlords. These essays are then marked by in-house judges who eventually select the best Ten or Fifteen (as the case may be), and subject them to public voting both on social media and on the website. The three entries with the highest total points emerge eventual winners.

Speaking at the award giving ceremony, Mr. Dapo Ojo, (Manager, Marketing and Estate Management – Realty Point Limited) said that “It’s good to see young people winning this award. It shows that people are getting conscious of real estate needs early in life and they can adequately plan towards it; either to invest or to start making a profitable business of it”

The winners appreciated Realty Point Limited for the awards, and for giving them the opportunity to use their experiences to a profitable advantage.

FULL LIST OF SHORTLISTED CONTESTANTS

See full list of the top ten contestants and more pictures below:

1. CYNTHIA OMO (The Landlord That Did Not Remember Moses)
Judges Points – 17
Site Votes – 359
Facebook Likes – 81
TOTAL POINTS – 2121

2. MAUREEN ALIKOR (My Landlord’s Strange Burial Rites)
Judges Points – 14.5
Site Votes – 282
Facebook Likes – 7
TOTAL POINTS – 1567

3. EGUME OGHENEKEVBE (My Wonderful Landlord)
Judges Points – 14.75
Site Votes – 103
Facebook Likes – 12
TOTAL POINTS – 686.5

4. SAMUEL EMMANUEL – (Time & Chance)
Judges Points – 14.25
Site Votes – 50
Facebook Likes – 13
TOTAL POINTS – 418.5

5. MBIATAABASI GODWIN (My Landlord’s Heartless Rule)
Judges Points – 13.75
Site Votes – 47
Facebook Likes – 0
TOTAL POINTS – 372.5

6. DEBBIE OSA (The Ridiculous Rent Increase That Ended Our Relationship)
Judges Points – 16.5
Site Votes – 24
Facebook Likes – 31
TOTAL POINTS – 347

7. IKITE GODWIN (The Chronicles of a Multi-Faceted Landlord)
Judges Points – 14.5
Site Votes – 37
Facebook Likes – 0
TOTAL POINTS – 330

8. EKELAKA EUNICE (The Failed Escape From My Landlord)
Judges Points – 14.75
Site Votes – 32
Facebook Likes – 3
TOTAL POINTS – 313.5

9. SUSAN JOHNSON (My Experience With A Dirty Landlord)
Judges Points – 16
Site Votes – 23
Facebook Likes – 6
TOTAL POINTS – 287

10. OPEOLUWA ODUNLAMI (A Landlord Like A Father)
Judges Points: 14.5
Site Votes – 9
Facebook Likes – 0
TOTAL POINTS – 190

 

The Sack Your Landlord Essay Competition is billed to return for another berth in 2017, and it promises to be bigger and better with more exciting prizes to be won. Watch out.