Pls nairalanders, A friend of mine needs genuine and sincere solution. Here's her problem:

She and her hubby moved into a new apartment last year September. The place was under going reconstruction when they paid and the agent told them within three weeks it will be completed.

NB: they searched for a place for months before they found this one and due to that they didn't want to renew their rent in the old place, they had to move out. After 3weeks the place had not been finished and the agent started telling us stories even the flat had outstanding bill of which he told us he was on his way to pay.


Their fault was that they believed him as a very close friend of ours directed us to the place). They forceful moved into the place to avoid stories that touches the heart although by then my friend had started requesting they gave them back their money, of which was futile.


Up until now, this people haven't paid the outstanding bill of 261k. Prepaid meter has been brought and immediately the unit given finishes my friend and her hubby are in darkness.

I am concerned because she is due to deliver soon and might need the light seriously. We are hearing that the landlady abandoned the building and so tenants don't pay rent and she will ask them to leave without paying up, although before they moved in, I had helped them ask around. The insincere neighbors said the landlady doesn't have any problem but now we hear stories about her.

The light issue isn't peculiar to my friends apartment alone, as two more people have paid but one hasn't moved in since Nov cos of the light issue and they don't want to pay them back their money. I feel guilty b cause I was involved in helping them move in

Pls what do experts here advice we do? tnks

Please help move to frontpage please. Thanks

Once you pay and move into the house forget about the outstanding electricity bill, they'll never pay it. The best way to deal with them is by paying them back in their own coin. Involve the Nepa officials, police and lawyer. So everything will be on record. Then clear the bills and enjoy your light. If there's no refund before you leave accumulate your own debt in any way you deem fit. It will be difficult for the landlady to throw you out if you've involved the officials ab initio.

call them for agreement in using ur nxt rent to pay the debt, if not those people won't respond to you at all, the did has been done

interesting.

When I saw the caption I thought I was going to read one of the stories about how house owners maltreate tenants but I think this not really the case. First the land lady was not directly involved but an agent, and the house bill was accumulated by a previous tenant not the land lady. You also said you heard the land lady have abandoned the house and tenants do not pay.

I think it's the agent that tricked your friend in to this mess. They may have to find an alternative to the light issue and manage till they sort out another accommodation cause at this point it's difficult to get the land lady to clear that bill.

Any agent that is not an estate professional would be hard to be honest.

libertyfather:
call them for agreement in using ur nxt rent to pay the debt, if not those people won't respond to you at all, the did has been done

They definitely don't want to renew the rent

Adamjc:


OP. this showed up in my feed just now. hope it helps you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9AfSb1WY_k

Thank you. I have forwarded this to her

thesicilian:
Once you pay and move into the house forget about the outstanding electricity bill, they'll never pay it. The best way to deal with them is by paying them back in their own coin. Involve the Nepa officials, police and lawyer. So everything will be on record. Then clear the bills and enjoy your light. If there's no refund before you leave accumulate your own debt in any way you deem fit. It will be difficult for the landlady to throw you out if you've involved the officials ab initio.

This is hard to do when you're just packing in

Issues between tenants and landlords, are only settled by court. You guys made they mistake of showing desperation. Now agent have chopped his own commission and left you with the landlord.

If all tenants pay up their Nepa bills issues like these won't occur, you also said the landlady has abandoned the house due to tenants not paying how is she to blame here?

You now see what some landlords are passing through in the hands of tenants. They will owe rent and leave outstanding Nepa bills that is even more than the next rent you will collect from a new tenant. The landlord and the next tenant will inherit the problem.

Besides we all know never to believe agents when it come to issues like this especially Lagos agents, they will promise you what the landlord never said.

It's the agent you will still talk to because obviously the money collected from you has been used for renovation and considering the experience you claimed your landlady has with tenants she most likely won't drop shishi for that accumulated bills. So you guys can talk about how you can use part of your future rent for the outstanding, maybe it will work.

There's nothing like greedy or wicked in this matter honestly, it's the tenant that didn't pay up that is wicked.

This is why it's always advisable to carry out due diligence on any property before payment.

Most agents wouldn't tell you the issues tenants in that house are facing cos they're interested in their commission.

All these property agents are fast becoming a nuisance, they charge almost 50% of rent almost doubling cost of rent, they lie, they determine rent making rent hard for end users, and the most annoying part they are not certified to be a property agent.
Something somewhere will soon disrupt that business for them

tanigororo:
All these property agents are fast becoming a nuisance, they charge almost 50% of rent almost doubling cost of rent, they lie, they determine rent making rent hard for end users, and the most annoying part they are not certified to be a property agent.
Something somewhere will soon disrupt that business for them

most property agents will not enter heaven