Stop the Excessive Exploitation and extortion by Real Estate Agents and landlords in Nigeria
Report your bad experience with any real estate agent or landlord to prevent other innocent Nigerians from falling prey, also to prevent further victimizations from any landlords and agents.
Financial Exploitation
• Charging multiple or inflated agency and agreement fees (e.g., 20-40% of rent).
• Collecting non-refundable or making caution/damages fees non-refundable.
• Taking rent for non-existent or already-occupied apartments.
• Introducing fake inspection, form, or processing fees.
• Arbitrary rent increases without notice or justification.
• Rent collection for incomplete buildings or unfit apartments.
• Withholding unused rent or security deposits after tenancy ends.
Legal and Contractual Exploitation
These involve manipulation of tenancy laws, agreements, or tenants’ ignorance of their rights.
• Refusal to issue a written tenancy agreement.
• Drafting one-sided agreements that favor only the landlord.
• Illegal evictions without proper notice or court order.
• Inclusion of unlawful clauses (e.g., “landlord may evict at will”).
• Withholding receipts or providing fake tenancy documents.
Psychological and Emotional Exploitation
• Threatening tenants to force rent payment or early eviction.
• Public embarrassment of tenants over rent issues.
• Intimidation or verbal abuse by landlords, caretakers or agents.
• Sexual harassment, particularly toward female tenants, in exchange for rent discounts or acceptance.
Operational and Service Exploitation
Here, landlords and agents neglect their duties while maximizing profit.
• Refusing to maintain or repair essential facilities after collecting rent.
• Renting out unsafe or unsanitary apartments.
• Overcrowding buildings to collect more rent.
• Neglecting tenants’ complaints about safety or maintenance.
Professional and Ethical Exploitation
• Fake agents posing as licensed professionals.
• Double renting a single apartment to multiple victims.
• Misrepresentation through fake pictures or listings online.
• Collecting inspection fees for apartments that don’t exist.
Information and Awareness Exploitation
Many victims are exploited due to ignorance of their rights or the housing laws.
• Misleading tenants who do not understand tenancy laws.
• Refusing to issue receipts to conceal illegal payments.
• Exploiting the desperation of apartment seekers in high-demand areas.
About Xpos-RE
Xpos-RE is a web platform that seeks to address the exploitative
practices in the Nigerian real estate sector that is making
sheltering unbearable for Nigerian masses.
We provide the Nigerian masses the opportunity to report real
estate exploitation practices, and ensure that actions are taken to
expose such actions (including the actors) so as to prevent other
Nigerians from falling victim of such practices...
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