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Most clients think that until they buy the property you don’t deserve to be paid for consultancy and doing due diligence for them. In other words, if you do due diligence for them and find out the property is not “clean” and ask them not to buy, they don’t think they owe you a fee. They will just tell you “thanks” and walk away.
This is why some colleagues and agents don’t care about due diligence. Once a client points them to a property, they will just take a day or two, do absolutely nothing, then just report back to the client that the property is clean, the client will pay for the property and small generational curse on it, everybody will share the money and leave the client and his children’s children to deal with the wahala.
Agents even laugh at people like us. They will say, “Barrister, all these things you are checking, just know we can’t share the money if you tell them not to buy o. You won’t see shishi.”
And they are always right.
I will check AGIS, check CAC to see the directors and shareholders of the company offering the land for sale; I will spend my time, money and expertise in all these and I will advise a client not to buy because of legal issues on the property, and they will say thanks and walk away. Talking about next time, when the deal click, we go do you well. Emeka, you are a bascad! Do who well, which next time?
Mehn, I’m just tired. I have to start suing these clients for my fees, what no lawyer wants to do, since I can’t just lie to a client that a property has no issues so that he can buy and pay my fees.
My tired is tired.
By Firsts Baba Isa (FBI)
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