To me the best solution is to buy a ready made house. It might be more expensive but u'll save yourself a lot of headache and you will get your choice.

Hello,

What a Timely Topic!

This is what we do Exactly.

Cribpark:
Building a house in Nigeria is a social status. We all want a permanent home address and the desire doesn’t end when we travel. Infact, a sizeable portion of the $25billion sent by diasporans to Nigeria last year must have gone into residential housing projects. If you are in the Diaspora and you are building in Nigeria, you must be familiar with these scenarios and you can learn from the solutions proffered.

No 1.

Sending Project Money:

With us, You do not send any project money to us, you only have to send the payment for agreed stages to a Trust Fund. This Trust Fund will be opened for you, and managed for you by FBN Trustees ( a Subsidiary of First Bank). FBN Trustees Ltd is a Strategic Partner to Artizanni Ltd for diaspora Projects Like This.

FBN Trustees will ONLY pay us, when YOU instruct THEM to pay us, AFTER they (FBN Trustees) have verified what we have done.

Apart from FBN trustees, Our Other Trustees Partners are Meristem Diaspora Trustees, and Diamond Securities Ltd.

You have a choice of selecting any one of them.

Nice write up op. Den we waba claim dat naija is de best in Africa. Gosh, bunch of poo

Cribpark:
Scamming Relatives
Junior was one of your favourite brothers and you never hesitated about giving him the task of handling your home project. He kept sending you pictures of ‘your house’ in Ajah. The pictures always looked so great and were constantly updated. Though you noticed the picture hardly depicted the surrounding houses, but it didn’t matter to you. Eventually you had to be in Nigeria for an unscheduled visit and that was where problem started. First Junior claimed labourers were on strike, later he claimed the state government banned access to the site’s neighbourhood. You went ahead anyway to realise the site was as empty as the pot we keep in the kitchen cabinet. That was how your hard earned money turned into Junior’s allowee.

Scamming Relatives:

With us, there is nothing Like scamming Relatives: There are two levels for verifying what we do for you.

1. Our Fund Trustees: Our Fund Trustees, who are in charge of your money, will make sure that we did what we agreed to do because they are LIABLE if anything happens, or if it is discovered that we have been lying to you. FBN Trustees Ltd, Meristem Trustees, and Diamond Securities Ltd will NEVER ADVICE you to issue payment instruction to them to pay us until their consultants have VERIFIED what we have done. They will take pictures, videos, reports and communicate such directly to you.

2. Online Construction Management Portal: Immediately we commence a project for you, we will open an online construction management portal account for you and provide you with the login details, this gives you access to GEOSTAMPED project Pictures, Vidoes, files, drawings, schedules, daily reports, and plans. you can contribute to the project via these portal, raise issues that are automatically tracked etc.

3. Couriered REPORTS: Every Two weeks, we will send you detailed ( and I mean detailed) progress reports on your project in a format that is understandable.

4.Gurantees: We will not build houses that will collapse for you, or of poor aesthetic quality and finishing. To assure you that we really mean that, we are indeminfied by AXAmansard Insurance Plc. You know that means.


5. Cost: what about cost?, all these things we want to do for you, will it not mean that it will be very expensive for you?..No.
...and here is why.

a. Once you sign up with us, we discuss with you via Slack, whatsapp, fb,twitter,email,skype, google hangout ..to know exactly what you want us to do for you.

b. based on the outcome of (a), we will send you an initial FREE proposal, that will include plans, boqs, cost , schedules and duration of your project.

c. We follow best practices always, so Our BOQs are detailed, and we also include Material and Labour Schedules, so you know EXACTLY what we are talking about.

d. Our fee for all this and construction is just 15% of the total design and construction cost. This includes the fees for the Fund Trustees and our Own Profit.

Cribpark:
‘Calamity ‘ supervision
It is not hard to know a staircase made by “proudly naija artisans”. For some part of the steps you don’t even need to lift your leg high enough to move to the next step, while some steps are so high you wonder if it was still a step and not a fence.
You need a professional to handle your project. You don’t want to sit down jeje in UK and you hear a building has collapsed in Lagos only to realise it is your site. Most times, the older brothers, uncles and aunts who are handling our home construction have acquired building practices that are unsafe overtime, and in a culture where respect for elders is paramount, you need someone with guts who would insist on the right thing.

CALAMITY SUPERVISION: This is very real, we have once been called upon by a UK based client to remedy a building in Ibadan that was DANGEROUSLY poorly built. It was like a time bomb waiting to explode.

Our Team is made up of professionals( Architects, Engineers, QSes, Builders, Master Masons and artisans) who understand the art of paying attention to DETAILS.......

We also have teams across the Country.

So, we can build for you in your village, or your City. your choice.

Cribpark:
Slowly But Surely Projects
They started digging for the foundation in Nigeria when you were in winter in Canada, by spring -they were still digging; during autumn and summer the digging continued; and by the next winter they were still doing digging reloaded. You begin to wonder if they are digging for your foundation or they are trying to discover oil. Maybe it has been long since you left Naija, and it may sound cliché, but things still work extremely slowly in Nigeria. Most of our efforts in the building industry are manual. It doesn’t mean it should get as bad as digging for months though.

The Digging that NEVER ENDS.

1. This never happens on our projects for the following reasons (EXCEPT YOU HAVE OMO-ONILE ISSUES)

A. Our Project Management Team will calculate to a T, the actual time it will take to construct your project in a specific location based on the context, and our experience in that area.

B. Guranteed Payment: Once you pay into your Trust Fund, we are certain of getting paid as long as we deliver on time and to specifications, due to the economic fact of the time value of money, it is in our interest to deliver your project in time, following strict quality standards.

Living in London

Cribpark:
Building a house in Nigeria is a social status. We all want a permanent home address and the desire doesn’t end when we travel. Infact, a sizeable portion of the $25billion sent by diasporans to Nigeria last year must have gone into residential housing projects. If you are in the Diaspora and you are building in Nigeria, you must be familiar with these scenarios and you can learn from the solutions proffered.

Thats true, a sizeable portion of diaspora remmittances goes into buying Lands & biulding projects.

artizanni:


No 1.

Sending Project Money:

With us, You do not send any project money to us, you only have to send the payment for agreed stages to a Trust Fund. This Trust Fund will be opened for you, and managed for you by FBN Trustees ( a Subsidiary of First Bank). FBN Trustees Ltd is a Strategic Partner to Artizanni Ltd for diaspora Projects Like This.

FBN Trustees will ONLY pay us, when YOU instruct THEM to pay us, AFTER they (FBN Trustees) have verified what we have done.

Apart from FBN trustees, Our Other Trustees Partners are Meristem Diaspora Trustees, and Diamond Securities Ltd.

You have a choice of selecting any one of them.

Was this thread set up for/by you?see how you came in high jack it without thinking of how the followers/creator and etc will feel,to be honest,this attitude reflects very badly to your personality,it shows your lack of conscience,I wonder who will trust their hard earned monies to you o.

Besides that,you have no history/reference here aka cv/past work.

Good luck with your gorilla mkting.

euromilion:


Was this thread set up for/by you?see how you came in high jack it without thinking of how the followers/creator and etc will feel,to be honest,this attitude reflects very badly to your personality,it shows your lack of conscience,I wonder who will trust their hard earned monies to you o.

Besides that,you have no history/reference here aka cv/past work.

Good luck with your gorilla mkting.

I hope the mod do the needful by removing his posts. This thread is very important and useful. Mod pls.

KenModi:


Bros please send me a message on whatsapp or viber.

We cannot discuss properly here on NL.

am not on whatzapp or viber. If you are on Skype let me know..

englishmart:
no need building in lekki when I have my lovely Enugu to beautify

Not just Enugu, Owerri is another serene & beautiful city you can build your house & have absolute peace & rest of mind with your family.

euromilion:


Was this thread set up for/by you?see how you came in high jack it without thinking of how the followers/creator and etc will feel,to be honest,this attitude reflects very badly to your personality,it shows your lack of conscience,I wonder who will trust their hard earned monies to you o.

Besides that,you have no history/reference here aka cv/past work.

Good luck with your gorilla mkting.

Hello,

1.Most certainly this Thread was not set up by us.

2.Also, while we have obviously been a bit over-interested to comment on the thread, it in no way reflects on the Personality of the Company, or the Company management.

3. The Op did not set this topic up to a restricted audience. The Topic is in the public domain, and since the OP stated the Problems, We stated the Solutions we have created that destroys these problems. Stating solutions to a set of problems that we have formed a Company to solve does not equate to marketing, If we want to market, we know how to advertise officially on nairaland.

4. Conscience: We have not solicited for money from the public, we have not criticized any SOLUTION the OP might have posted, and we most certainly have not asked the public to do business with us. The OP posted Problems, We posted Solutions. It is as simple as that, no thread was Hijacked.

5. It will most certainly be IDIOTIC for the public to Trust any body or Company with their hard earned money. The SMART thing to do is to check out the company, and checkout the SECURED gurantees the Company has put in place to Safeguard their money in a risk free manner, and deliver quality projects in time. We are not asking the public to TRUST us.

6. We do not have any history or reference on NAIRALAND because we are not trying to WIN the Business of Nairalanders. We have representatives in 8 Countries that do that directly for us. Client Confidentiality is CRUCIAL to how we do business, as such we will neither post pictures of Buildings under construction, without EXPRESS Client approval.

7. We are not new in this service, the quality of our strategic partners speak for us, we merely saw a topic, that FALLS into our EXACT business niche, and we thought it important to educate the public on Our Solutions, since the OP has educated them on the Problems.

8. The diaspora Real estate business is a 2.1 Billion Dollar/Year business in Nigeria, 1.8 Billion dollars/year in Botswana, and 1.2 Billion Dollar/year in Kenya, these are our next Target Markets, and so we most certainly are beyond guerrilla marketing..

True. The family members can just provide oversight

lonelydora:
Nice write up. It's better to involve a professional contractor to build your house and then tell your brothers to just visit the site, than allowing your brothers handle the whole project. Most think people think money grows on trees in US, not knowing that it's not as easy as they think.

Wahala plenty for this brother thing.

True. A professional's involvement in your project rather than the family member allows you to be able to take objective discussions without worrying about how family relationships would be affected.

222Martins:
The issue of shrouding your building project and any other investment in secrecy is something most of us in Nigeria are guilty of. I think it is a Nigerian factor that stems from the fear of evil people and security concerns. As for the issue of handing your project to a family member, i don't do such. I would rather give it to someone without blood or friend ties; so that when the chips are down, i can skin the person alive without feeling an iota of pity or regret.

lol. You are welcome

enoch273:
I never build house o, neither do I stay in boys quarter self, but I must comment, because I believe in the beauty of my dreams....

Nice one OP

They both have their pros and cons.
By building your house you should spend less, you can build in phases, and also control the quality of your project. However you are faced with the unsavoury issues like omo-onile, contract disputes, delays etc
Buying your house may be expensive but it is faster and strips away a lot of bad experiences which happen during construction. However you are also faced with the possibility of poor quality of work, hidden terms and conditions which dont favor you, and more.

whocanbewho:
To me the best solution is to buy a ready made house. It might be more expensive but u'll save yourself a lot of headache and you will get your choice.

ifenes:
Leaving matters to god simply means you are ready to do nothing because you know god doesn't exist.

When people say "god is my witness" It is to show they have no witness

Anyway,why build a house in lekki when jesus is building mansions in an unknown planet for you? Just chill till he returns,if he ever returns

must all you atheist use every opportunity to tell us how disillusioned you are with God. Abeg shift

Hello Artizanni,
Your comments are welcome, we understand your company is doing something related and you must have found the topic quite applicable and interesting. However, at a point your comments seemed to have been enough to make another thread.
We also do something similar like your company, but this thread was meant to engage with people and share experiences. Sometimes it is just cool to engage with people.
Thanks for adding your posts, you have thrown in some light

artizanni:


Hello,

1.Most certainly this Thread was not set up by us.

2.Also, while we have obviously been a bit over-interested to comment on the thread, it in no way reflects on the Personality of the Company, or the Company management.

3. The Op did not set this topic up to a restricted audience. The Topic is in the public domain, and since the OP stated the Problems, We stated the Solutions we have created that destroys these problems. Stating solutions to a set of problems that we have formed a Company to solve does not equate to marketing, If we want to market, we know how to advertise officially on nairaland.

4. Conscience: We have not solicited for money from the public, we have not criticized any SOLUTION the OP might have posted, and we most certainly have not asked the public to do business with us. The OP posted Problems, We posted Solutions. It is as simple as that, no thread was Hijacked.

5. It will most certainly be IDIOTIC for the public to Trust any body or Company with their hard earned money. The SMART thing to do is to check out the company, and checkout the SECURED gurantees the Company has put in place to Safeguard their money in a risk free manner, and deliver quality projects in time. We are not asking the public to TRUST us.

6. We do not have any history or reference on NAIRALAND because we are not trying to WIN the Business of Nairalanders. We have representatives in 8 Countries that do that directly for us. Client Confidentiality is CRUCIAL to how we do business, as such we will neither post pictures of Buildings under construction, without EXPRESS Client approval.

7. We are not new in this service, the quality of our strategic partners speak for us, we merely saw a topic, that FALLS into our EXACT business niche, and we thought it important to educate the public on Our Solutions, since the OP has educated them on the Problems.

8. The diaspora Real estate business is a 2.1 Billion Dollar/Year business in Nigeria, 1.8 Billion dollars/year in Botswana, and 1.2 Billion Dollar/year in Kenya, these are our next Target Markets, and so we most certainly are beyond guerrilla marketing..

Hello Cribpark,

Your comments are welcome, though according to what we know from VC4Africa, Cribpark is into Online sales of Construction Materials (You Guys are actually the most well Structured).

Yes, we got carried away, But thats in check now.

We understand that you may be pivoting into our domain, thats welcome, the more, the merrier.

Have a lovely weekend.

Cheers.

Cribpark:
Hello Artizanni,
Your comments are welcome, we understand your company is doing something related and you must have found the topic quite applicable and interesting. However, at a point your comments seemed to have been enough to make another thread.
We also do something similar like your company, but this thread was meant to engage with people and share experiences. Sometimes it is just cool to engage with people.
Thanks for adding your posts, you have thrown in some light

artizanni:


Hello,

1.Most certainly this Thread was not set up by us.

2.Also, while we have obviously been a bit over-interested to comment on the thread, it in no way reflects on the Personality of the Company, or the Company management.

3. The Op did not set this topic up to a restricted audience. The Topic is in the public domain, and since the OP stated the Problems, We stated the Solutions we have created that destroys these problems. Stating solutions to a set of problems that we have formed a Company to solve does not equate to marketing, If we want to market, we know how to advertise officially on nairaland.

4. Conscience: We have not solicited for money from the public, we have not criticized any SOLUTION the OP might have posted, and we most certainly have not asked the public to do business with us. The OP posted Problems, We posted Solutions. It is as simple as that, no thread was Hijacked.

5. It will most certainly be IDIOTIC for the public to Trust any body or Company with their hard earned money. The SMART thing to do is to check out the company, and checkout the SECURED gurantees the Company has put in place to Safeguard their money in a risk free manner, and deliver quality projects in time. We are not asking the public to TRUST us.

6. We do not have any history or reference on NAIRALAND because we are not trying to WIN the Business of Nairalanders. We have representatives in 8 Countries that do that directly for us. Client Confidentiality is CRUCIAL to how we do business, as such we will neither post pictures of Buildings under construction, without EXPRESS Client approval.

7. We are not new in this service, the quality of our strategic partners speak for us, we merely saw a topic, that FALLS into our EXACT business niche, and we thought it important to educate the public on Our Solutions, since the OP has educated them on the Problems.

8. The diaspora Real estate business is a 2.1 Billion Dollar/Year business in Nigeria, 1.8 Billion dollars/year in Botswana, and 1.2 Billion Dollar/year in Kenya, these are our next Target Markets, and so we most certainly are beyond guerrilla marketing..

Sorry if I came across as attacking you,but you have not been of any help here in nairaland especially on property section by answering questions or bringing solutions to difficult projects in crisis in the past,nor have you ever created any thread for your past works,here you are talking about setting up a trust fund,you can however,create your own thread to promote your empire,instead of trying to derail this thread.

Am sorry,but I just felt I should express how I feel.

No hard feelings bro.

Hello, no problem here
Thanks for checking us out, we really appreciate. You can buy your materials from us
We are still focused on being a marketplace for building materials, but interestingly a lot of our recent orders have come from people in the diaspora who are building in Nigeria.
So we are not exactly competitors, we can collaborate.

artizanni:
Hello Cribpark,

Your comments are welcome, though according to what we know from VC4Africa, Cribpark is into Online sales of Construction Materials (You Guys are actually the most well Structured).

Yes, we got carried away, But thats in check now.

We understand that you may be pivoting into our domain, thats welcome, the more, the merrier.

Have a lovely weekend.

Cheers.

ifenes:
Leaving matters to god simply means you are ready to do nothing because you know god doesn't exist.

When people say "god is my witness" It is to show they have no witness

Anyway,why build a house in lekki when jesus is building mansions in an unknown planet for you? Just chill till he returns,if he ever returns

For your mind you don talk na ba?

Hello euromillion,

Thanks for your views.

1. Artizanni is not a person, its a Company.

2. Folks behind Artizanni have actually contributed to solving problems in the Property Section via their personal monikers, it is bad practice to propose solutions that are tantamount to personal opinions that may fail in practice behind a corporate identity. the Operative word been ''may''.

3. Any writing you read from Artizanni is guaranteed and backed by our corporate identity, postulating solutions to problems in the property section on which we do not have certain data does not speak well to our competence, apart from the Legal consequences that may arise from such.

4. Again, we do not create Threads on the projects we are doing because we value Client Confidentiality, and also because certain aspects of what we do must be under wraps. An example is Saferoom design and Construction.

5. Trust Fund, or Escrow is set up for the Client by Our Strategic Fund Trustee Partners, we neither set this up, nor do we have any control over it.

6. We will create such threads, but 78% of our potential Clients are not even on nairaland. The Outstanding percentage is split between whatsapp groups, Linkedin,quora, facebook, nairaland and twitter.

7. Its unfortunate you have the impression that we are trying to derail the thread, which is actually far from our purpose. But its all well and good.

8. Thank you for expressing your opinion, apologies for creating the wrong impression.

Have a great weekend.

Cheers!

euromilion:


Sorry if I came across as attacking you,but you have not been of any help here in nairaland especially on property section by answering questions or bringing solutions to difficult projects in crisis in the past,nor have you ever created any thread for your past works,here you are talking about setting up a trust fund,you can however,create your own thread to promote your empire,instead of trying to derail this thread.

Am sorry,but I just felt I should express how I feel.

No hard feelings bro.

Hello Cribpark,

Beautiful, we are always open to collaboration. Kindly check your page on vc4africa for us to discuss the collaboration in detail, we have left a message for you there.

Also, we will be pitching(Hopefully) at the next Startup Friday Event in Abuja, so you are welcome to meet the team.

Cribpark:
Hello, no problem here
Thanks for checking us out, we really appreciate. You can buy your materials from us
We are still focused on being a marketplace for building materials, but interestingly a lot of our recent orders have come from people in the diaspora who are building in Nigeria.
So we are not exactly competitors, we can collaborate.

222Martins:
The issue of shrouding your building project and any other investment in secrecy is something most of us in Nigeria are guilty of. I think it is a Nigerian factor that stems from the fear of evil people and security concerns. As for the issue of handing your project to a family member, i don't do such. I would rather give it to someone without blood or friend ties; so that when the chips are down, i can skin the person alive without feeling an iota of pity or regret.

very true...you just wrote it all

Schwartz:
An aunt in the USA had a worse experience. She sent money consistently to her trusted nephew. This guy collected the monies and indeed built the house. As soon as this woman came down to Nigeria to inspect and enjoy her finished building the guy stopped her from acquiring her own property. The case has been in court for years with her having to travel down to Nigeria multiple times a year because of continuous adjournments. In court the guy, her nephew o tendered receipts and documents showing only his name because he actually was the one who purchased everything in cash. It therefore made it difficult for her to prove she actually owns the house because everything he did from land purchase to building materials he did it in his name.

That is where a hired agarawu boys come in. Scammers like him does not deserve to live. Sometimes some things are justified.

Hajji M.

Thanks

artizanni:
Hello Cribpark,

Beautiful, we are always open to collaboration. Kindly check your page on vc4africa for us to discuss the collaboration in detail, we have left a message for you there.

Also, we will be pitching(Hopefully) at the next Startup Friday Event in Abuja, so you are welcome to meet the team.

this is an open forum.it is left for individual to check out this company . i see no reason what so ever to take this topic as personal. please continue to educate us with this topic. God bless.

mufutau55:


That is where a hired agarawu boys come in. Scammers like him does not deserve to live. Sometimes some things are justified.

Hajji M.

Well and good,but the lady in question is actually lucky because people in naija has the upper hand when it comes to hired agarawu boys,as a matter of fact many diasporians has died in the hands of wicked naija relations like that,I remembered a case of my church lady that was killed on her arrival to naija in 2004 she did not even reach home,she was taken out from the airport.sad but true.

@artizanni,
Thanks for your understanding.
We may need your service some day.

Thanks again.

Cribpark:
Take Away Tips To Consider when building from Diaspora
• Involve people you trust most and who have demonstrated financial discipline, and not necessarily people you love most.

• Do not send huge sums of money at once. Instead, send the money gradually.

• Ensure project updates include pictures, video, budget and other site activities

• Don’t walk alone. Join a housing group where you can share information about your project and ask questions.

• Buy land from estate developers who do a proper layout. Because most people buying the land are middle class like you, there is a better chance of having a posh neighbourhood.

• Dont hesitate to hire a professional. Registered professionals have a reputation, but sure they are more expensive. Your trusted persons can do oversight functions and manage the project.

• If you feel your project is moving way too slow, it may be a time to take caution. Stop the project temporarily and send another friend or family who has not been involved in the project to give an independent assessment.

• Don’t spend all your resources on your housing project if you have a thriving business at the moment which also needs more investment. You can design your house in a way that allows you to build in phases, so you have extra money to invest in your business.

• Please feel free to share your opinions on the above tips shared or add any more tips from your personal experiences on construction sites. Thanks.


Further enquiries, suggestions and private questions can be directed to the writer in private message here on Nairaland or via info@cribpark.com or Call/Whatsapp 08025059733.

Hi cribpark,
I read ur article on NL. Thanks for the info. Just to advice, I visited your website but couldn't find your blog. An excellent article like this should be published to your blog, and then maybe a paragraph or two posted on NL, with a link back to your site, thus readers are lead to your site and would have the opportunity to be informed about your products and services.

It also provides non NL visitors to be informed
Regards,
HK