House Hunting: A Quest for a Better Place

For a while, the thoughts of leaving my present apartment have been going through my mind, and that is because of some of the challenges I have been facing at where I am. From the bushy compound to the scarcity of water and many other inconveniences,

My apartment is not bad at all, but where the problem lies is that we don't have good management. The owner of the building had died, and since then, the family has not taken the responsibility to finish what he had started. So what do I mean?

This is the compound of the apartment I stay in. The landlord was building another building just beside it before he died, and since he died, it has remained that way. I didn't know the landlord in person or even ever get to meet him, but from what I heard from my neighbours, they said he was a very rich man, and if he were alive, he would have completed it.

I guess you can see how the compound is bushy. I have tried my best to complain to the tenants that we need to pay people who would help us clear off the bushes in the compound, but nobody is ready to contribute towards doing this.

I have gotten really frustrated, so I decided to go house hunting to see if I could find a better place to move to.

One of the places I got attracted to was the "Rahkaz Modern Hostel". The place looked like an estate and was well maintained. I had to go in to ask the security if there were still rooms available and how much they were worth.

To my surprise, a single self-contain i.e., just a room, kitchen, and toilet, was $400 per year, while a room-and-parlour was $500 per year. That was a lot, and it was more than what I could afford. My budget was $200, and I didn't plan to go any further, as if I tried, it would affect my finances and possibly hurt my Hive Power.

So I decided to move on. I was with an agent who was taking me through different apartments, and there was one he suggested for me that I would like. Earlier on, he had sent some videos and pictures, and I happened to like what I saw. I just need to see it in person; maybe it is the same as what I see in the video.

The few things he told me about the apartment were that it had a personal transformer, so I would not need to worry about low voltages, and also that it has a powerful solar panel inverter powering the house, which is also strong enough to pump water into the house.

So in general, I would not have any problem concerning light, and the price was $220. With all the descriptions, I had fallen in love with the hostel without even seeing it, so I had to check it out to see if I would still remain in love with it.

I went along with @creativepearl; she accompanied me in this house hunting, which made the journey not boring as I had someone to chat with. When we got there, we took some pictures.

Finally, I got to this place. I was a little disappointed about the compound, and it is quite painful that I don't have the picture on my phone. But let's move on to the things I found out that I don't like about this place.

First, they had way too many rooms. I dislike places that have too many rooms, and I always have the feeling that too many people mean more problems. The whole apartment alone would have nothing less than a hundred rooms, if not more.

So I went inside the room to check it out, and here is what I found.

The kitchen was too small and not well constructed. I cannot imagine myself having to cook in such a small place. This leaves me wondering where I would place my tabletop gas cooker or where I would place my fridge.

The rooms were too small. My bed alone is too big to fill the whole space of the room, leaving no space for my workstation. I had to check all the rooms in the building, but that was how all of them were constructed.

I could not understand the reason why the place had so many rooms that people had not taken them because the people who came by to check the rooms were probably discouraged by the way the rooms were small.

I was laughing at myself while imagining how I had fallen in love with a place that I ended up not liking one bit after visiting.

The truth is, I actually fell in love with the place because I had imagined how much I would save if I moved there. I would not have to worry about money for electricity or money for fuel to run my generator.

As much as running my generator on gas is cheaper than fuel, I still spend quite a lot of money per month, which is about $20–$35 and can be less if the power holding company in Nigeria decides to be nice by bringing power very often in that month.

We checked quite a lot of more hostels, which I would have loved to share, but I have to stop here. Thanks for reading through.

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𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁

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_{Starstrings01, also known as Giftedhands, attends the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta to study mechatronics engineering. He is a lover of the hive, a guitarist from Nigeria, and a student.}

_{His ambition on Hive is to be more than just an ordinary blogger; he wants to be someone with a purpose. That's why he started the newbies initiative @newbies-hive to help guide and support newbies. Please follow the @newbies-hive curation trail by clicking here.}

_{He tries to juggle education with being active on the chain, but his love and passion for Hive keep him on track..}

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