4 Tenancy Laws Your Landlord Doesn't Want You To Know



Understanding your rights and responsibilities as a tenant is an important part of living and working in Lagos state. While we encourage every tenant and home owner to read a copy of the full tenancy law of 2011, RE/MAX has highlighted a few interesting laws every tenant should know.

Caution Fee & Service charge

First of all, not all properties are liable to a service charge or caution fee. Speak to your agent about whether the properties you’ve expressed interest in come with these additional expenses.

Your landlord or his agent should give you a separate receipt for the payment of the service charge and/or caution fee. Additionally, as a tenant, you are entitled to a written account at least every six (6) months of how the service charge and/or caution fee has been spent.


Notice Period

Depending on the nature of your tenancy agreement, your landlord is mandated to issue you a notice to evacuate his/her premises prior to forceful eviction for non-compliance, they are:

  1. A weeks notice for a tenant at will
  2. One (1) months notice for a monthly tenant
  3. Three (3) months notice for a quaerterly tenant
  4. Three (3) months notice for a half-yearly tenant and 
  5. Six (6) months for a yearly tenant
Note that in most cases where an evacuation is ordered by the court, tenants will not be served an evactuation notice by the court but from the landlord. It is the landlords responsibilty to inform his/her tenants of any intent to evict on the property.
Unreasonable Rent Increase 
You can declare an unreasonable rent increase, and your landlord can not evict you until the matter has been settled by the court.

Two Years Rent 

It is illegal and punishable by jail time or fines up to N100,000 to pay or demand more than 1 years rent in Lagos state.


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