{"id":1826,"date":"2016-09-27T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T07:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:47:04","slug":"letters-to-my-landlord-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/letters-to-my-landlord-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to my Landlord (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Show Man<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 Somewhere Rd, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajegunle Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4th September 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Mr Landlord,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 Somewhere Rd,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajegunle Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Oga Landlord,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b>\u00a0What You Need to Know Before I Deal with You<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I called Morufu to help me write this letter because I need to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yarn you wetin dey ground<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wetin I get for mind concerning your matter and how you go hear wen!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I came to your house just six months ago, in a bid to get accommodation<a href=\"http:\/\/tolet.com.ng\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I still remember the blue <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agbada<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you wore, your smiling face and your seemingly kind countenance. I never knew I was in soup. I just moved out of my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/the-ring-and-the-mini-flat\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mini flat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-rent?search=egbeda\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egbeda,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to your face-to-face apartment at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-rent?search=ajegunle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajegunle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I had lost my job at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-rent?search=ogba\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ogba<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and I needed to cater for my young wife Ajike. I used all the money I had to get one room in your house. I never knew I just entered the devil\u2019s trap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first three weeks, I didn\u2019t encounter any challenge, you and my new neighbours gave me a welcome feast. The real <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> started when my wife\u2019s pot of soup was stolen in the general kitchen meant for everyone in the compound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajike had just left the kitchen to take <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the room with your wife still in the kitchen. On her return back to the kitchen, the soup had disappeared within five minutes. She held the Garri in amazement as she couldn\u2019t talk.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I no talk too, but we no chop for three days sake of say, una steal our soup<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From that day<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I don dey watch how I go deal with you.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two weeks later, you insisted that you will remove my roof because I didn&#8217;t \u00a0pay <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEPA bills<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I know you\u2019re a carpenter and that you\u2019re capable. So, I allowed you but I cracked your ladder at midnight. I heard you fell, landed at the hospital and almost lost your life. \u00a0I am sorry I did that but that may be one of the prices to pay as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/how-landlords-raise-funds-from-gullible-tenants\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lagos landlord<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The person wey no want make we live make him self no enjoy life.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For your information, I had rest with no more <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wahala\u00a0when\u00a0you were away<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I know that being a tenant in Nigeria can be somehow and that housing in Nigeria is stressful. Every time I saw you limp, I laugh. I laugh so much that I roll on the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oga <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/how-landlords-raise-funds-from-gullible-tenants\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">landlord<\/span><\/i> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there are a lot more things we had together, enjoy this first\u00a0piece of writing, other letters are coming in this series, Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Na me o!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Show Man<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Show Man 1 Somewhere Rd, Ajegunle Lagos. 4th September 2016 &nbsp; Mr Landlord, 1 Somewhere Rd, Ajegunle Lagos.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[223,174,150,127,148,364],"class_list":{"0":"post-1826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-house-stories","9":"tag-accommodation-in-lagos","10":"tag-apartment-for-newlyweds","11":"tag-finding-an-apartment","12":"tag-landlords","13":"tag-nigerian-landlords","14":"tag-renting-an-apartment","15":"cs-entry","16":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}