Landlords demand one to two years of rent upfront
Renting an apartment means finding 12–24 months of rent at once, plus agency and legal fees on top. Salaries are monthly. People either stay somewhere bad for years or borrow from family at the worst possible time.
- Who has it
- Young professionals renting in Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi and similar cities
- How often
- A few times a year
- Pain
- Seriously hurts
- Would pay
- A monthly fee on top of rent, if it meant paying monthly
- Today’s workaround
- Borrow from family, salary advances, informal savings groups.
Who’s building this
Nobody yet. This one’s up for grabs.
I’m building this
Me too
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