Anyone can buy a property but not everyone can buy the right property and worse still, some persons buy the right property but end up with the wrong kind of tenants. In this article we take a critical look at the top 7 tips to finding a tenant. You will be making one of the biggest investment decisions of your ...
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How To Toggle Between Your Wants and Needs When Buying a Home
Changing your status quo from a tenant to a home owner is one of the biggest decisions or event that can happen in a man’s life. Albeit, it is one thing to buy a home, it is another thing to be able to separate your wants from your needs during the process. While in the process of acquiring the most ...
Read More »Take The #SackYourLandLord Test
When it comes to finding the right apartment to reside in on lease or permanent basis, many of us misplace our priorities. And due to the excitement of finally getting a place after months of rigorous search especially in a densely populated place like Lagos, we fail to ask the right questions, now that’s just a part of it. There ...
Read More »Who do you think should do house repairs: landlord or tenant?
A lot of questions have been raised in time past as regards house repairs. In fact, this has generated a lot of argument. Both tenants and landlords constantly feel cheated because either feel they are being forced to pay for house repairs supposed to be handled by the other. We asked people on Facebook to air their opinions on who ...
Read More »How Tenants Can Maintain a Healthy Relationship With Landlords
Most of us speak ill of our landlords like we do not aspire to be landlords someday. And I want to believe no one wants to remain a tenant for the rest of their lives, or are there exceptions? This article talks about how tenants can build or maintain a cordial relationship with landlords It is so easy to castigate ...
Read More »Would you buy a house or build from scratch?
Last week, we conducted a vox pop on Facebook to gather people’s opinions about whether they would like to buy a house or build from scratch? We got very many reactions. It was not surprising to learn that majority of the people who expressed their opinions would rather build their houses from scratch than buy the house. Many people would ...
Read More »Why Do Some Lagos Landlords Avoid Igbo Tenants?
Residential segregation by ethnicity has become a common trend with Lagos Landlords, especially if the tenant is from the eastern part of Nigeria. In this article we analyse the circumstances that has led to this seeming bias. In Nigeria, having enough money to pay for the type of apartment you wish to rent for a period of time isn’t enough ...
Read More »Man kills landlord for complaining about property
“A 46-year-old landlord of a house on Hassan Close, Itoki, Ogun State, Omotayo Sanda, has been beaten to death by his neighbour’s son, Joseph Isiwele.”- Punch reports Twenty-six-year-old Joseph reportedly rained blows on Omotayo and fled the area after the landlord fell and died. PUNCH Metro learnt that Joseph’s elder brother, Michael Isiwele, had packed some sand from a pit ...
Read More »1st Debo Adejana Real Estate Seminar For 2017 Set To Hold This Weekend
Do you know you can own a house you still pay rent for whilst still a tenant? Do you think it’s possible to be a tenant on a property and yet be the landlord of that same property? Be a part of the first DEBO ADEJANA REAL ESTATE SEMINAR for 2017 to get answers to these thought-provoking questions The first ...
Read More »Enhancing Your Real Estate Investment For Sale
There comes a time during the course of any real estate investment when it becomes clear that selling off the property is the best course. When that time comes, getting the most out of your piece of real estate is crucial to seeing the big payoff at the end of the real estate investment experience that you have been expecting ...
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