Agents Bad Practice - Picking Up Agents In Eateries

As a Property Consultant, it is really annoying to receive a call from a prospective Client and after so much analysis, advice and courtesy, the Client tells you to meet him up at a Landmark (most often an eatery, filling station, or the property you're sighting) because your office is "too far" or she doesn't have "the time" to come down.

No thanks to street quacks who have made meeting points their norm and restaurants their office, thereby reducing learned Estate Surveyors, builders and Property Lawyers to unworthy business terms. Such "Agents" are not credible as they have no address, no means of identification and no reason to have or protect an integrity. They just charge you for "survival" in the name of registration (they're willing to collect even 500 naira if you're stubborn enough), then you both embark on a blind search, "together". They are so miserable that they would wear a native attire or shorts on a monday morning.
Such Agents are only there to frustrate your search as they lack the knowledge to match your budget with your taste in relation to what is attainable on the market. They also lack customer service and they're a total waste of your hours.

But what were you thinking in the first place?

I understand that you feel you direly need to get out of that present habitation, but have you asked yourself a question I ask victims of Street Agents;

Do you go to Chemists for Antenatal?

Asides the frustration and the feeling of hopelessness they leave you with, you also stand the risk of being swindled of your hard earned money. No rent money comes easy. After much sweat, dedication, long savings and sometimes loans from family and friends; it would be suicidal to loose it all to someone you can never trace to anywhere. Even the most intelligent policemen won't fish him out. Its only typical that such a case dies with time after "dashing" the police the little remnant.

So when next an "Agent" asks you to meet him up at Mr. Biggs, Tantilizers, Total, Oando, Sweet Sensations, Mobil etc, ask to meet him in his office. If he's not in the office, pick a convenient day for both of you and fix a proper appointment. Don't rush!

Follow your heart too, if you ever smell anything fishy...RUN!!!

Best Regards.