Tips, horror stories, budgeting hacks, and real talk from people who've been there.
"My PPA doesn't provide accommodation, please help me" is a timing problem, not a money problem. Use camp as your matching window and pick the area from the posting.
How protected rent payments work, what SecurePay’s release and refund policies mean, and the receipts you should collect before moving in.
Two areas, two different kinds of pain: Surulere's year-two increases against Gbagada's access premium and landlord gatekeeping. Compared on what is actually advertised.
Real Yaba prices with the fee stack applied, the salary maths, where to live in order of sense, and the three things worth asking your employer before you resume.
It depends on how each person was put on the tenancy. Three possible positions, the section 13 notice defaults, and why nobody may remove anybody personally.
Ten fixes ordered cheapest first, including how to store against damp and heat, and the one-in-one-out rule that is the only discipline that survives a year.
A ₦3,350,000 solo year against ₦1,400,000 shared, worked from real adverts. Why the fees matter more than the rent, and where the ₦1.95m difference should go.
It is not a personality clash, it is two people needing opposite things at 7pm. The decompression window that fixes most of it, plus guests and the 1am problem.
Real September prices from ₦3m mini flats to ₦5.5m terraces, then the four-step arithmetic that tells you whether the expressway costs more than the rent saves.
Over 50,000 students, fewer than 8,000 bed spaces. The areas around Akoka ranked by what they cost you, and why splitting a flat beats a private bed space.
You already have a tenancy agreement even if nothing is signed. The clause that actually gets sharers evicted is section 7(6), and there are three safe ways around it.
What "total package" actually means in Yaba, worked through real September 2026 adverts, plus the five questions that stop the surprises before you spend on transport.