Hi All,
I need you advise. I subscribe to a housing scheme in Lagos; [size=14pt]Essential Homes by Gran Imperior (Metropole Interprojects)[/size]. They are the developer behind Northpointe, Southpointe and some other projects for which they are erroneously advertising 6 months delivery. In a bid to stop paying the hefty house rent in Lekki Ajah area of Lagos, I subscribed for a 3 bedroom apartment in one of their estates in April 2014, and completed my payment per schedule, in August 2014.

Almost 1 Year after, all they have to show me is a foundation of the supposedly allocated unit. I have tried all means to communicate with them, and they are currently frustrating this effort, I have engaged lawyers but will like inputs from my well learned and experienced folks here, on how best to deal with this situation.

My demands from them are quite considerate, to commit in writing to a new delivery with agreed penalty for defaulting and take care of my temporary accommodation as I exhausted my credit limits to pay them and fulfill my end of the contract. Court case might take a while, so I want to explore all diplomatic means of resolving this first, but ultimately will do whatever will get me justice.

This should not be the appropriate means to reach out to them, but well meaning Nigerians who have contacts there should help me talk to them, maybe the right set of people in the organization are not aware or involved. I will keep the post updated with new developments as they unfolds.

Thanks all. (Mod, pls help another Nairalander)

#16mil?!! and just foundation? a bungalow or what? do you have your papers you made the payments with? ?
do you know a name or some names of the top mangers? i mean names of the final decision body if the firm?

ejikeme:
#16mil?!! and just foundation? a bungalow or what? do you have your papers you made the payments with? ?
do you know a name or some names of the top mangers? i mean names of the final decision body if the firm?

I have all docs, I know some of their account officer, Legal people and Sales Manager, I know their office in Lekki Phase and some of their site offices. It's a bungalow

i doubt if they ever used the money....we have more corporate thieves than arm robbers.

Rella1234567:
Hi All,
I need you advise. I subscribe to a housing scheme in Lagos; [size=14pt]Essential Homes by Gran Imperior (Metropole Interprojects)[/size]. They are the developer behind Northpointe, Southpointe and some other projects for which they are erroneously advertising 6 months delivery. In a bid to stop paying the hefty house rent in Lekki Ajah area of Lagos, I subscribed for a 3 bedroom apartment in one of their estates in April 2014, and completed my payment per schedule, in August 2014.

Almost 1 Year after, all they have to show me is a foundation of the supposedly allocated unit. I have tried all means to communicate with them, and they are currently frustrating this effort, I have engaged lawyers but will like inputs from my well learned and experienced folks here, on how best to deal with this situation.

My demands from them are quite considerate, to commit in writing to a new delivery with agreed penalty for defaulting and take care of my temporary accommodation as I exhausted my credit limits to pay them and fulfill my end of the contract. Court case might take a while, so I want to explore all diplomatic means of resolving this first, but ultimately will do whatever will get me justice.

This should not be the appropriate means to reach out to them, but well meaning Nigerians who have contacts there should help me talk to them, maybe the right set of people in the organization are not aware or involved. I will keep the post updated with new developments as they unfolds.

Thanks all. (Mod, pls help another Nairalander)

With N16 million you could have bought a plot of land around Ajah and built a very decent bungalow. I don't know why people continue to fall for all this estate developers crap. Checkout the litany of woes on the Lekki Gardens Estate thread. If and when they deliver your house, i bet it will not be up to the standard you expect.

Back to what you can do next? It's a wait and see situation you have put yourself in so "wait and see....and also pray".

They know what they are doing and they know that you ppl will eventually react. I believe they must have put a lot of things in place for whoever want to take any action, be it legally/illegally. I'll advice that you send your lawyer to the management to see things for themselves. You should be able to work things out. Then, pray about it personally. Its always preferable to build your own house.

drkay:
They know what they are doing and they know that you ppl will eventually react. I believe they must have put a lot of things in place for whoever want to take any action, be it legally/illegally. I'll advice that you send your lawyer to the management to see things for themselves. You should be able to work things out. Then, pray about it personally. Its always preferable to build your own house.

Thanks

see if you can find twitter handle of any top excos and bombard them. also create an embarrassing harshtag for them. I've solved some issues with this method.

Rella whats d update? Am in ur shoes now.

glogirl:
Rella whats d update? Am in ur shoes now.

huh?? you too?? what's your story??