The landlord wants his house vacated by end month and has accepted to open the house. My tenants were so mad and refused to come get the key. Clearly I could understand their anger at how they were treated. Remember I had an agent who was our middle man, even he all over sudden became scarce.
So I had the key to the premise, I called all the fundis who had done various amendments to the house to meet at the house and undo what they had done i.e the painter had to return the house from purple to white, the plumber had to removed the sink and toilet we had put and the electrician had to also so some work. Our tenant accepted to come to the premise, he understood my story and I thought that was favour because if it were any other, I would have been sued clearly. However he mentioned that they wanted their deposit and wanted to pro rota the rent for the current month. I was like what, yes we will return your deposit but your rent for the current month no. Infact in their anger, they had written a letter and stated that they wanted to move out with immediate effect and that we should deduct their current month rent from the deposit and give back the rest of the money. So we agreed to meet in the evening and sort out the issue. At the same time, I was digging deep into our pockets to pay for the repairs of the house. All this time SAS is closed because I am the one who runs it.
Anyways when we met the tenant,thats when we discovered that our agent had lied to us from the beginning. He knew that the tenant was not residential but was for commercial purpose yet in the contract he indicated that it was residential. So this caught the tenants by surprise when we pointed out that they were on the wrong like us. Secondly as the tennant spoke I just said the lord must have spared us from disaster and never be caught in the wrong side of the law. The tenant was revealling all the plans they had for the premise, they were even invloved with public relation activities with an aspiring politcician and had used the place for their meetings.As he spoke ,i felt like I would dig a hole and hide there forever.He said how some of his friends wanted the property for many other projects because of its strategic position. We looked at each otehr with my partner and just said thank you lord for protecting us even when we were on the wrong.
My tenants culture really respect women and so they like dealing with men especially while discussing business issues. So the tenant kept asking where is your husband so that we can argue with him?They found it hard to argue with us on the pro rata rent issue and we agreed that we just give back the deposit. They moved their stuff the next day and my fundis finished renovations and I handed the key to the landlord last week Friday.
Looking back we inquired such losses as we had already paid the agent his commission, had to refund the deposit and repairs etc , meant we did not make any money and should have just pulled out of the deal early in the year.But with my ambition , I convinced the rest to dive in with my brilliant idea and we lost and lost hard.
Today am not proud of what I did but am glad that I am wiser now and am not perfect. However I saw so much favour, because truth be told, I had visualised myself in court, with a scarf over my face,hiding from cameras..am serious my mind had gone that far. I asked for forgiveness and there was no excuse for what I did,
So please don't judge me, learn from me and follow your instincts.
So I had the key to the premise, I called all the fundis who had done various amendments to the house to meet at the house and undo what they had done i.e the painter had to return the house from purple to white, the plumber had to removed the sink and toilet we had put and the electrician had to also so some work. Our tenant accepted to come to the premise, he understood my story and I thought that was favour because if it were any other, I would have been sued clearly. However he mentioned that they wanted their deposit and wanted to pro rota the rent for the current month. I was like what, yes we will return your deposit but your rent for the current month no. Infact in their anger, they had written a letter and stated that they wanted to move out with immediate effect and that we should deduct their current month rent from the deposit and give back the rest of the money. So we agreed to meet in the evening and sort out the issue. At the same time, I was digging deep into our pockets to pay for the repairs of the house. All this time SAS is closed because I am the one who runs it.
Anyways when we met the tenant,thats when we discovered that our agent had lied to us from the beginning. He knew that the tenant was not residential but was for commercial purpose yet in the contract he indicated that it was residential. So this caught the tenants by surprise when we pointed out that they were on the wrong like us. Secondly as the tennant spoke I just said the lord must have spared us from disaster and never be caught in the wrong side of the law. The tenant was revealling all the plans they had for the premise, they were even invloved with public relation activities with an aspiring politcician and had used the place for their meetings.As he spoke ,i felt like I would dig a hole and hide there forever.He said how some of his friends wanted the property for many other projects because of its strategic position. We looked at each otehr with my partner and just said thank you lord for protecting us even when we were on the wrong.
My tenants culture really respect women and so they like dealing with men especially while discussing business issues. So the tenant kept asking where is your husband so that we can argue with him?They found it hard to argue with us on the pro rata rent issue and we agreed that we just give back the deposit. They moved their stuff the next day and my fundis finished renovations and I handed the key to the landlord last week Friday.
Looking back we inquired such losses as we had already paid the agent his commission, had to refund the deposit and repairs etc , meant we did not make any money and should have just pulled out of the deal early in the year.But with my ambition , I convinced the rest to dive in with my brilliant idea and we lost and lost hard.
Today am not proud of what I did but am glad that I am wiser now and am not perfect. However I saw so much favour, because truth be told, I had visualised myself in court, with a scarf over my face,hiding from cameras..am serious my mind had gone that far. I asked for forgiveness and there was no excuse for what I did,
So please don't judge me, learn from me and follow your instincts.
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