If you don't have a house of
your own, you would always be troubled and disturbed when its time to pay your
rents especially if you're earning a meager salary. A lot of folks save up
their salaries for months before they can be able to pay rents.
Most people living in
standard apartments in Lagos don't have monthly salaries that can sort their
rent bills so they end up saving for months or sharing apartments at the risk
of their comfort to be able to pay the rents. You have no option and God help
you if you lose your main source of income, because your landlord would have no
option but to throw you out on the streets.
And please, don't blame them
because Landlords go through a lot of hassles to build their houses and the
market is a seller's market. The demand in the Nigerian housing market is
greater than available supply so prospective tenants and anyone who can't stay
discipline to build his own but want to enjoy the comfort of a house should
have the required sums to do so.
I have seen people fall sick
of hypertension just because their house rents are due and they have no money
to pay. I know what it feels like to be chased and hounded by a landlady or
landlord when the rent is due - the humiliation and tantrums you face. It's not
a great feeling at all and I'm sure you won't like that.
If you want to have peace of
mind as you grow older, then you need to build your own roof - become a
Landlord so that no one would humiliate you when you go through a bad patch or
grow too old to earn a living.
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