Sack Your Landlord! ™ Before Xmas

Dear Reader,

If you are a tenant, then this note is for you. It doesn’t matter if you are renting a room or mansion, a tenant is a tenant. Sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. The size of the rented apartment does not make you the owner; your comfort is dependent on the reasonability of your landlord.

But I ask you, for just how long will you leave one of your basic needs in the hands of another man. Wouldn’t you rather take control of your life?

This is a note from the bottom of my heart to you. I just got a friend’s text few minutes before starting out to write this letter, he was thanking me for been the first person to challenge him to owing his own house and showing him how feasible it is and the fact that he could start himself on the way to house ownership at the time not waiting for convenience or a future date that so often never come for a lot of people. Today, he moved into his own house after about 24months at it.

I am talking of a guy who is about thirty five years old with a wife and two kids. Not that he has a fantastic job or a God father somewhere. He simply applied himself to some of the things I will like to share with you here. The most important being that, he took one step after the other in the right direction, my heart rejoice with him as I will like to with you someday in the very near future.

Mr. Aina is another example of how one can start the journey to home ownership with a fired desired whether or not he has “money”. I always say house ownership is not for a class or creed as the world may want us to believe. I started my journey towards owning a home from nothing. Mr. Aina came to Lagos a jobless family man, got a Civil Service job about a year after arriving in Lagos. Six months into the Job, he bought his first land and 24months on the project, he moved into his own house still a Civil Servant who does no hanky-panky.

Yes, to achieve that, he had to use a lot of wisdom and of course applied himself a lot more. But most importantly, I am introducing you to a way you can get things started without breaking your head.

Think about it, here is an opportunity to own land within a well structured estate located in the future of Lagos/Ogun axis. You can pay in instalments of up to 24months. The headache of Omo-onile is being handled by someone else on your behalf. Nothing concerns you with them. There will never be a nexus between you and them. The estate is to boost of good roads, drainages, electricity, water, transportation, security, relaxation, fun and recreational centres, Schools, shopping malls,etc

Realty Point Limited RC 621592 (www.realtypointltd.com), is a reputable real estate developer and the promoter of this initiative. We are a member of Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) and main actors in the Ogun State Chapter.

I am introducing Prime Estate Pakuro (off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway opposite Deeper Life Camp) and Prime Estate Igbesa (Close to Agbara, around Lusada Market junction off Lagos Badagry Expressway) at N648,000 and N600,000 per plot respectively. These prices are promotional and things will move up after November 30 or while promotional plots last. Note, you can pay over a maximum of 24months instalment.

The projects are located within present real estate hot beds. With the Lagos –Ogun mega city project, Pakuro is the place to be. I am sure you are aware of the plans Lagos State Government has for the Badagry Expressway. More so, the projects are within running tertiary institutions; Gateway Polytechnic and Crawford University for Igbesa and Redeemers University for Pakuro.

What more, if you pay at once, you can enjoy an attractive discount and also stand the chance of spending your Xmas weekend (December 26-28, 2008) with your spouse in Ghana at our expense or win any of the other consolation prices. The raffle is opened to everyone who will buy into our projects and pay up on it between now and November 30.

When you buy plots from us, you stand to benefit from the other values we bring to the table. For example, we ensure our projects qualify for National Housing Fund (NHF) scheme in that we partner with Primary Mortgage Institutions to fund your building to the set maximum limit of N5million. In cases where you let us build for you, we consult for you on finance/funding your project free of charge using all our banking relationships to get you competitively priced loans, do your building plans free of charge aside from the growth potential your investment will derive because of the experienced property managerial ability we offer at the estates.

Don’t relive the story of a typical Nigerian Landlord;

Started work life at the age of 25, never thought of building his own house until he was nearing retirement, eventually finished his building with the larger chunk of his pension benefits. The stress and strain of such a venture at that old age of 61 made him fall sick. He never fully recovered till he died 5years after. On his dieing bed, realising that he could not enjoy what he used all his life savings to achieve alive and in good health, he instructed that he must be buried within his compound, saying to himself, if I can’t rest here alive, let me at least rest here in peace howbeit, dead. What a shame!

Even if you don’t think you should live here, you can invest here still. But even in saying you can’t live here, I hope you are being true to yourself and not just being unnecessarily hopeful that your fortune will change over night. Please, don’t get me wrong, I wish you well. I wish you good things of life so much so that I think that if you start from where you are now, that is, keying into what you can afford, then you stand a better chance of advancing in life as against someone who would not have started anything before. Don’t you think so? I am sure you do. Nobody says your first house or landed property most be your last.

To learn more about these projects and our organisation, I will encourage you to visit the estate website – www.primeestatesng.com

If you remain a tenant for too look after this, don’t blame anybody but yourself. There may never be a comfortable time to build your own house, most people that have achieved that status did it out of “inconvenience” so to say and the once who wait for convenience mostly end up tenants all their life. I am sure you can relate with that because most of the achievements you would have recorded in your own life have come from inconveniencing yourself to a certain degree, isn’t it?

You can buy for investment purpose like I said earlier and I dare say it makes a lot of investment sense to buy into these projects. In real estate, you make the most money where you have the most opportunity to add value. Buying emerging markets like Pakuro and Igbesa gives you that opportunity. When we put road where there is none, bring power to where there is darkness, bring live into a dead end and link them up to town. What do you think will happen? Prices will sky rocket and the early investors like you (only if you buy now) will smile to the banks even if the banks refuse to smile at you. Already, our promotional prices will close by November 30, 2008 and prices are expected to go up by a minimum of 23% meanwhile you would have paid only the first instalment if you are taking that option.

Let’s learn from our other projects – Prime Estate Phase 1 and 2. Phase 2 started selling mid October 2007 at N360,000 per plot and the price went up to N500,000/plot in January 2008 and then N800,000 by May 2008 while subscribers who bought at N360,000 are still paying their monthly instalments of N24,000 what they bought has more than doubled in price. Same trend exist in Phase 1, from N350,000/plot in July to N1million now and it is not even readily available.

I think I have said most of what you needed to know to make a buying decision and you can also check the websites for more information. I can only appeal that you do all you have to do in time and call any of our phone numbers for a buying appointment – 01-8964527, 4346687, 07028023008, 07028023400, 07028023395, 07028023007, 07028440478, 08055408612, 08057385048, 08055652269, 08035618663, 08023680245. Our sales reps can come over to your place to help you with your buying decision. Otherwise you can call them for the procedure if you are outside Lagos and won’t want this promo to pass you buy. Individuals as well as corporate bodies, societies, clubs, families and friends can buy into this estate.

We have limited number of plots to sell at the promo prices and sales started October 2008.

I wish you all the best as you take the right step to Sack Your Landlord! ™ before Xmas. Merry Xmas!