LIVING IN A HOUSE HAS BECOME VERY HARD-KERICHO,KENYA

It is very hard to get a house instantly when you need it in our cities nowadays. You have to spend some, say from two days to three weeks before you can get one. This makes it very hard for people who have been thrown out of their homes by their landlords for various reasons that go with the renting of a house or they might have been forced out of their homes by the various unbearable conditions to survive. Most of the times, when such conditions arise, the people are forced to find a very quick solution to avoid camping on the streets with their families and the most ready solution to getting another home fast enough, recently, has been , the commercial agencies and estate management companies in our cities.



Here, you can get a house readily, but going through these agencies and real estate management companies has its own advantages. Almost ninety nine percent of the tenants I have come across have been complaining of harsh and very inhuman treatment by the rent collectors or any other people who go and collect the money on behalf of the landlord. It expected that they are the experts in debt collection yes, but their techniques of dealing with the situations is very inhuman.



Abnormal harshness and excessive force that is exercised by the company’s staff during this times or any other debts collection is very degrading to the tenants who sometimes are very good gentlemen who deserve to be treated with a lot of dignity. They are the experts yes ,but throwing someone out of the house just because there has risen some complications in their salary payment mechanisms isn't very good.



These debts collection companies have abnormally strict rules for living in the estates that they manage. They have a set date at which the rent money has got to be paid. They do not accept to listen to your problems no matter what happens. Be it a funeral, a road accident or illness of any kind or any defects in the working of the systems at your place of work, they just can not give you a chance what they want from you always is their money and they don’t want to know how or where you will get it. So if you are delayed by causes that are beyond your powers say for a week or so, they come and throw you out of the house and leave you with your belongings heaped in the compound and they give you the maximum time that you can use the compound otherwise they will move you to the road side and leave you there. Wherever you will get a house fast enough is none of their business.



Some companies charge the tenants up to one percent of the months rent if you exceed the set date of payment by even one day. If money is not paid in the following two days from the date of payment they then go on charging one percent of a months rent each and every day that passes. The one percent charge is added to the fifty percent of one months rent that is charged for passing the set date for pay the tenants physical the other bills that are in the powers



So if your pay doesn’t arrive within two weeks from the last day of the previous month or the set date for paying rent you will have to pay perhaps three times the amount of money that you pay one month as the house rent. If you go too far, say for whole month, perhaps they will question your property.



These companies are abnormal strict that is impossible for their kind thing to happen in real life. The slightest mistake that you will make and you left in the compound with your belongings or if not so a third or two thirds of the lowest income earner in our country is gone to the debt collectors.



At least, they should develop a better way of handling the tenants than leaving them in the compound stranded. They should give them a chance to fill up for any inconvenience that may come up as a result of the human weakness. Staying in the house for two months or three months is not too bad. And when they are forced to throw them out, then their property should be kept in their offices and not to heap it in the compound.



Living in a house has become quite an experience. You have to make sure that you don’t make a mistake in your salary payment procedures or else, you will be in for the worst.