WHY THE RICH WILL ALWAYS GET RICHER AND THE POOR, POORER EVEN IN REAL ESTATE

I heard an interesting definition of P.O.O.R sometime ago. I understand it stands for Passing Opportunities Over Repeatedly. What a precise definition. The truth is, in life we all have our opportunities in adequate proportions but while a fellow makes the utmost of his/her opportunities another just watch them slip off without enough effort at seizing them or worse still, some folks don’t even recognise the opportunities when they knock. 

We have interviewed a lot of people along the line of property acquisition in the course of our publishing career, in all of the sessions they would always say getting the property at the time they did was not easy but they had to do what they had to do and now, they are so grateful to God that they did not pass off the opportunity.

Anyone who has tasted genuine riches must have done it by daring, blazing the trail or going against some tide. That experience usually rivets a kind of wealth acquisition instinct into your being such that appropriate risk taking becomes second nature to you. It is that ability to take risk that separates the rich from the poor and the ability to continue to take such risk that ensures the rich will always get richer while the POOR gets poorer.

But before I go further on the topic of this article, permit me to say a big Thank God. Why? We were able to fulfil our plots handover promise for Saturday June 28, 2008. Catch my drift now? Over 60plots were physically allocated and clients can start to building immediately. The next plot handover day is scheduled for Saturday September 27, 2008 and the way things are going, we hope to allocate over 200plots on that day. If you are a subscriber and you are interested in getting your allocation in September, just make arrangement to pay up on your subscription for land, survey and documentation fees on or before August 31, 2008. We usually require nothing less than 30days to prepare for plot handovers. 

That said, I do like to say a very big congratulations to the first partakers of Prime Estate 1 & 2. We appreciate your trust and patronage. I also wish to express my profound appreciation to the team that is making this possible, I mean the staff of RPL, our PAPEP members, Agents, Consultants and Friends in this business of housing. I thank you, June 28 was as much your day as it was ours because without you there can be no us. Accept my million thanks.

In appreciation of your patronage and as a follow-up to an article I wrote on how to get mortgages for your building project we are organising a free – Customer Appreciation Workshop on Saturday July 19, 2008. The time is 10.30am and our over 150 people capacity training facility in the office is the venue. Don’t even think about missing it! We have secured firm confirmation of participation from 3 Banks/Mortgage institutions. They will be on ground to have a one-on-one with you at the workshop. The idea, you can start raising money from your building project right from the venue. I will strongly suggest you mark your diary now and make plans to be there. You have everything to gain and nothing to loose. We remain committed to helping you Sack Your Landlord ™ this year except you choose not to.

The rich or whoever will be rich must see opportunities where the POOR sees impossibilities. I have come to a point in life where I know and believe that there is no such thing call impossible. Get me right, it is not that I have watch too much of BankPHB’s advert. That I can not do something at a particular time for some reasons does not make it impossible. It simply means I have room for improvement and once I get the education I require, the “impossible” becomes possible. Is it impossible for a baby of 3months to run? Yes, but only till such a time when his muscles would have become better exercised, say another 21months.

It is in resolving “impossibilities” that the rich make more money. Take real estate as a case study. How many people wanted to live in Magodo in the early 80s, when it was still a thick bush? Who could afford to spend N60,000/sqm on a Lekki Phase 1 plot in the mid 1990s? Do you realise how much the popular VGC sold for when it started as against the selling price now? Why the change? How come people are now all of a sudden so willing to doll out cash on properties in these areas? What is just time that happened on those places? Definitely not, some people (either in Government or Private individuals) “saw” into the future and created havens from jungles.

The same opportunities litter our landscapes today and the POOR are doing their thing while the rich is getting richer by taking investment positions. Where do you belong?

Challenge yourself, we have an opportunity in between Omole II and Magodo for a miserly N4.4m payable in 4 instalments. Land Project is a site and service estate to be delivered in 6months maximum. Call Kola on 07028195526 or Peter on 07028313004 to register your interest or for further details.

See you at the Top!

QUOTES “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.“ – Aristotle“Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.”   — Spanish Proverb