This is going to be on hell of a long post. Please read and bear with me. I’m writing on behalf of someone who happens to be my bestie and her mom is like my mom too.

So bestie’s mom is a civil servant that earns on monthly basis, she took loan severally to build herself a house located in ogun state. With plenty of pains, starvation and hunger she finally completed 4 flats of two bedrooms each after like 10 years. Ever since the building has been ready she has never for once enjoyed steady flow of rentals her tenants, it’s either they are unable to pay and get kicked out or the new tenant comes up with a story of how his business went bad.

The house has been ready for not less than 6 years now with various categories of tenants. Mom is really sad and decided to hand over to a caretaker, the caretaker suggested that all old tenant be sent out and fresh new people taken in. The debt of some of the old tenants was up to 2 years oo. For one particular guy who happened to be a colleague of my friends’ mom , his own debt is up to 3 years without single pay. He keeps coming up with rooster and bull stories. The idea of the caretaker was that  mom holds a meeting with the tenants and tells them that she sold the house to someone and that the old tenants should move out as per they don’t kuku have rent in advance. The meeting was held a lawyer was called and quit notice was served to those tenants giving them 6 months.

Now the issue is 6 months lapsed with 3 month on top of it. Meaning for going to 3 years for some tenants no pay and she hasn’t gotten paid for 3 years by any of the 4 flats. Salary isn’t steady again, debt has risen and bills has skyrocketted. My friends’ mom seriously and badly needs money. The supposed caretaker and Lawyer isn’t handling the issue like they should and our mommy is fed up. The caretaker keeps saying she should still hold on because if the matter is taken to court it might even take much longer than it has already. She keeps thinking about it daily and begin to get worried that it’s not worth the stress building a house. These tenants are bunch of frustrating beings.

Is there a way to send those people out more quickly? Have you ever been in this situation and how did you handle it? What are the consequences of getting a court involved? Is there a better way of sorting this.

I need your opinions please mom dey worry too much. I tire biko