{"id":740495,"date":"2019-11-08T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/08\/landlady-weeps-as-tenant-converts-flats-to-hotel\/"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:01:09","slug":"landlady-weeps-as-tenant-converts-flats-to-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/08\/landlady-weeps-as-tenant-converts-flats-to-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlady weeps as tenant converts flats to hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 75-year-old landlady, Mrs Hannah Otite, has broken down in tears following the conversion of two flats in her property located at No. 3 Kafi Street in the Alausa area of Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria to a hotel by a tenant, Oshinsegun Ashley, without her consent.<\/p>\n

Narrating her ordeal to\u00a0PUNCH Metro<\/em>\u00a0on Wednesday, Otite said amid sobs that she got to know about the illegal conversion in December 2017, a few months after Ashley had moved into the house.<\/p>\n

She explained that several attempts to get him to reverse the situation failed over the years as the tenant resorted to threatening her.<\/p>\n

The septuagenarian said the tenant was introduced by her agent, identified simply as Kunle, in September 2017, adding that after paying N1.3m (about $3,575)\u00a0as the yearly rent for a flat, Ashley immediately indicated interest in securing another flat that became vacant.<\/p>\n

Otite stated that unknown to her, the tenant had the dubious intention of converting the two flats into a hotel without her consent.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cAshley was brought to me by my agent, Kunle, and he paid the N1.3m annual rent for one flat. After three weeks, I went to the property and discovered that he had not moved in, I called the attention of the agent, but he said I should not bother myself since he had paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI later travelled abroad and while away, I got a call that one of my tenants was moving out to his newly-built house. My agent again called to inform me that Ashley was interested in the vacant apartment for his brother, who was abroad; I was reluctant initially, because I didn\u2019t want to give two flats to the same tenant, but he promised to abide by the agreement he had earlier signed when he rented the first flat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know that he was collaborating with the agent, because shortly after, I got information from one of my other tenants that he had converted the flats to chalets. When I came back to Nigeria, I went to inspect my property only to see that Ashley had demolished the kitchen and other parts of the flats and converted them to rooms.<\/p>\n