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Can of Worms-Part 1

About 2 weeks ago I shared that I had experienced God's mercy,forgiveness and love. At the time my heart was wounded and I was carrying around lots of guilt. Today, I am ready to share the mistakes I made and lessons learned and hopefully you shall not judge me but learn from me.

When you enter into a business deal you are looking for a win- win situation and of course a profit. I have shared before how we ventured into the hair dressing industry and it didn't work out and so I got a wise idea to sublet the premise without the landlord's permission to try and recoup some of the costs we had inquired. I got a house agent explained that the house wasn't mine but I was keen to sublet it for a few months then give it back to the owner. I asked him to get us a resident to stay in the premise so that we do not have issues. Well after about 1 month, the agent called me and said he had found a tenant who loved the house and had a family. Oh I was excited and we signed the contract and I handed over the key. All this time am praying that the landlord doesn't get to know about my little plan or "secret".

One day, I passed by the premise and I could not see any household items ,instead there were tables and chairs and I wondered whether the place had been turned into an office. I asked our agent and he quickly said he was not aware but he would be passing by the place once in a while to see how they are keeping the place. 

2 months down the line, as I am in the kids furniture shop, I receive a call from my landlord's "property manager". He said something like" Wambui am told that you want to move from the house? Someone called me asking if they could rent the house". Oh I didnt even think about it, I lied so much . I responded" what are you talking about? I have been paying my rent and am just about to do the June payment then see mzee for the renewal of the contract in August". As i said those words, i repented for lying and later that evening told Alex, something is wrong at the place, Alex my love said maybe not and so we slept.

Next morning, at 7.30a.m. I receive a call from the Mzee(landlord) and he has his facts. He asked me who are the people staying in his premise and why did I sublet? Oh what a way to start the morning. I mumbled an excuse and he demanded to see the payment receipts for the rent we had been making since last year. So I called my beloved and later on we dropped the receipts to his office. He was satisfied with the payments but the drama was just unfolding.

Later we received a letter from our tenant who said he had been thrown out of the house. Yes all this time Alex is talking with the mzee, his caretaker went to the premise, put a padlock on the door and threw out the caretaker who was staying there. Is that drama or what? So I waa at the shop receiving calls from all sides, Alex is there asking the landlord why he has sent people to throw out the tenants yet we are discussing etc.

The mzee allowed the tenants to stay upto end month and then vacate his house.However our tenants month ends mid month and not end month so ideally they are to move out mid June..can you see trouble?

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