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You want to know the best business decision you can make in 2016?  That will be investing in real estate through Realty Point’s “Bargain of the day” offer. This piece gives useful insight to this off-the-hook initiative. It’s a new year of new beginnings, new opportunities and new innovations. The Pendulum swings forth signaling another chance at taking that step ...

When searching for a place to call home, many of us get carried away with the prospects the agents offer as regards the place you hope to rent/buy so much that we don’t put other factors that could make our stay unpleasant in retrospect. You can’t afford to let anyone make you feel you can’t be choosy because that person ...

Martins stared warily at Ada who gave him a quizzical look, wondering why he still stood in her office. After Mama Ruka had confessed to the fact that she was the one who mistakenly left a lit candle on a plastic in the kitchen after she finished cooking, things had progressed. The landlord had been reluctant to release them after ...

I am sure most people who came across the Sack Your Landlord contest would have called it a fluke and moved on with their daily internet surfing without giving it a second thought, but hey, ‘action will always prove the doubt that theory cannot solve’.   It was all smiles yesterday for the 3 contestants who emerged winners of the ...

I picked up the Bible, passed a surreptitious glance to be sure my target was still amongst us. Fortunately, he was. I looked at my wristwatch: 07:20pm. I had 20 minutes to preach this message. I opened the Bible, looked around again, as if analyzing the faces of everyone present. It was my first time moderating the devotion. At 16 ...

The choice of where to live, just like every other life choice, goes a long way in influencing one’s total well-being. Knowing this propelled me to apply extra effort in searching for an apartment which would be my domicile for my service year as a youth corps member two years ago. More so, my ears have been filled with stories ...

My floorboards were sagging, the plaster walls as a result of excessive cold and heavy absorption of water were cracking and crumbling off, the room perpetually had the stench of stale bread regardless of how many containers of air-freshners I sprayed in it, the toilet wouldn’t flush until I poured a bucket of water myself, huge rats and cockroaches fought ...

My name is John Thomas, 34. Four years ago I lived in a rented apartment in Ikeja, Lagos and I had such an indelible experience. My liberation from the shackles of tenancy came only after an incredible experience with my landlord at the time. We(the tenants) had a sitting landlord and he stayed alone in his apartment. He had all ...

I haven’t been under a Landlord until I got admitted into a University, and I needed somewhere to stay. It was an opportunity to have a view from the tenant’s end. So, I had no problem with it, as one needs to have experiences as a human. Describing my landlord, he is a young man, in his thirties or forties ...

After three months of squatting and receiving a barrage of insults that left me feeling like I was on a lower pedestal than even a vagabond, I was able to secure a one-room apartment from a quiet-looking man whom I believed was far too gentle to hurt a fly. I never knew I had just come in contact with one ...