Tobi Ajayi

Tobi Ajayi Author. Construction Engineer. Real Estate Consultant. I Write Relatable Real Estate Content. I Help People Acquire Lands For The Right Value.

The fact that some people have seen the past yet still struggle to predict the future usually amazes me.I once took a ma...
15/05/2026

The fact that some people have seen the past yet still struggle to predict the future usually amazes me.

I once took a man in his 60s to inspect a site around the Atan Ota axis.

While we were on our way, he started telling me stories about how Ikotun was in the 90s.

According to him, Ikotun was mostly bush back then. He said many people avoided buying land there because they felt nothing meaningful would ever develop from the area.

Then he said something interesting.

He mentioned that today, to rent a decent 2 bedroom apartment in Ikotun, you may need close to ₦2M per annum.

I was listening carefully because, unknowingly, the man was already teaching the exact lesson many people fail to understand.

But the shocking part came when we finally got to the site.

Immediately he saw the environment, he said he didn’t like the place because it was too bushy and not developed to his taste.

At that moment, I just smiled quietly.

The same history he used to explain how Ikotun transformed over time was the same lesson he refused to apply to the future standing right in front of him.

That’s one major problem many people have with land investment.

Everybody wants to buy in a place that is already developed, already expensive, already crowded, and already validated by others.

Very few people have the patience, foresight, and courage to enter when a place still looks uncomfortable and uncertain.

To make it worse, some people are not even realistic with their budgets.

You cannot carry ₦2M and expect to get prime land close to the main road in already developed locations and still expect massive future appreciation.

Most people admire successful land investors today, but they forget those people bought when others were complaining:
“It’s too far.”
“There’s nothing there.”
“It’s too bushy.”

The future usually rewards people who can see beyond the present condition of a location.

For any Real Estate consultation, reach out to me 🤝🏾

If you're capable of building a 3 bedroom bungalow up to roofing level within 2 years, you're actually rich.
14/05/2026

If you're capable of building a 3 bedroom bungalow up to roofing level within 2 years, you're actually rich.

14/05/2026

Why not just lay them straight in the first place?

Something happened to me in 2022 that made me understand the importance of dealing with professionals.I helped a man sec...
14/05/2026

Something happened to me in 2022 that made me understand the importance of dealing with professionals.

I helped a man secure 3 plots of land around Papalanto axis for farming purposes.

After acquiring the land, he told me he needed water on the site, but because he couldn’t afford to install a borehole yet, he decided to dig a well instead.

I introduced some people to him for the job.

Few days later, he reached out to me saying the amount they quoted was too high for him. He then told me someone had introduced one Aboki to him that would do it cheaper.

I said okay.

Later on, he narrated what happened between him and the Aboki.

According to him, they both agreed on ₦2K per foot for digging the well.

Everything was going smoothly until the man had dug about 5 feet deep. Suddenly, the Aboki changed the price and said he was no longer collecting ₦2K per foot, that the soil was too hard and the new price was now ₦3.5K per foot.

The land owner refused.

He reminded him of their initial agreement and told him he wasn’t adding any extra money.

That was where the problem started.

Argument turned serious right there on the land. It even got to a point where the Aboki carried the digging tool and started threatening the man and the person who came with him.

At that point, he got scared.

He had no choice but to pay him off with the new amount the man demanded just to avoid further trouble, and he immediately told him never to return to the site again.

Now, this is the main point I want people to understand.

When you hire someone who positions themselves as a professional, they usually understand that in contract or business, you don’t suddenly change price in the middle of a job because conditions became harder than expected.

A professional will either, continue the work and count their losses or stop the job respectfully if the condition is no longer favorable.

But once someone starts using intimidation, emotional pressure, or threats to force extra payment halfway into a job, that’s no longer professionalism.

This is why the cheapest option is not always the best option.
Sometimes, what looks cheaper at the beginning can later become more expensive, stressful, and even dangerous.

For any Real Estate consultation, reach out to me 🤝🏾

14/05/2026

In most cases, the cheapest part of land acquisition is paying for the land. Securing it is where you spend more money, and that’s mostly why many people pay for land but fail to secure it properly.

If you go into a very remote location to acquire lands, let’s say those lands are ₦200K per plot and you bought 3 plots....
14/05/2026

If you go into a very remote location to acquire lands, let’s say those lands are ₦200K per plot and you bought 3 plots.

The money you’ll spend to do the registered survey on that land may be more than the price you paid for the three plots. Don’t let that discourage you, still do it.

After doing it, mark your boundaries. If you don’t do this immediately, you stand a higher risk of losing your ₦600K investment.

For any Real Estate consultation, reach out to me 🤝🏾

I was with a man yesterday, just the two of us inside his car, waiting for his lawyer to join us so he could hand over t...
14/05/2026

I was with a man yesterday, just the two of us inside his car, waiting for his lawyer to join us so he could hand over the Deed of Assignment prepared for the land he just acquired around Sagamu Interchange axis.

While we were waiting, our conversation suddenly shifted to politics.

Then he said something that caught my attention.

He told me that if Fashola were to contest the presidential election against Peter Obi, Fashola would beat him comfortably.

Now, I really don’t like involving myself in political arguments because Nigerians take politics very personally these days.

But if I’m being realistic, I think there’s actually a possibility in what he said.

Not necessarily because Fashola is better or smarter than Peter Obi, but because Nigerian politics goes beyond social media popularity.

BRF has better political structure, influence, elite backing, regional strength, party machinery, and long-term political relationships than PO and all these play a massive role in determining who eventually wins elections in this country.

A lot of people underestimate how powerful political structure is until election results start coming in.

Or what do you think?🤔

Imagine a world where fathers don't allow their daughters to marry a man that has no landed property.Do you think a lot ...
13/05/2026

Imagine a world where fathers don't allow their daughters to marry a man that has no landed property.

Do you think a lot of men would be single or a lot of men would be land owners?

Ladies and Gentlemen, you’ve got to start taking chances. Nowhere is too far. Anywhere you see people and visible human ...
13/05/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, you’ve got to start taking chances. Nowhere is too far. Anywhere you see people and visible human activity is a place with investment potential.

The more you keep overthinking, the more these locations continue to develop right before your eyes.

A man was telling me this morning about an acre of land he bought sometime around 2005 for ₦50K per plot.

Today, a plot in that same location within Ogun State sells for nothing less than ₦9M.

This is why I always tell people, invest in landed properties now before you start calling your friends who invested heavily today ritualists in the future.

No, they didn’t do rituals.

They simply did what many people failed to do at the right time, they invested in landed properties while others were busy spending money on temporary enjoyment and frivolous things.

Some of the places you admire in either Lagos or Ogun State today, those who acquired land early in those locations didn't do so when those locations became how it's today, they bought when people were still asking:
“Who wants to live there?”

For any Real Estate consultation, reach out to me 🤝🏾

Who brought this culture of things being ridiculously overpriced online before they’re considered good?It has now spread...
13/05/2026

Who brought this culture of things being ridiculously overpriced online before they’re considered good?

It has now spread into the land and building industry too.

A land that is realistically worth around ₦3M in a particular location will suddenly be marketed online for ₦6M or even more sef, and people will now start making others believe that anyone selling below that inflated price should be avoided.

Some people have successfully created this mindset that expensive automatically means original, premium, secure, or better.

Meanwhile, that’s not always true.

In many cases, what you’re paying for is not necessarily quality or extra value, but hype, aggressive marketing, artificial scarcity, and branding.

This mentality is becoming dangerous because it’s making average Nigerians believe buying land and building a house is impossible unless they have huge money.

There are still decent lands, affordable building materials, and realistic opportunities out there if you do proper findings and stop letting social media pressure think for you.

Not everything affordable is fake.
Not everything expensive is premium.

Sometimes, the smartest buyer is simply the person who understands the real market value instead of following noise online.

For any Real Estate consultation, reach out to me 🤝🏾

I only expect you to have this type of TV setup if you live in your own house, not as a tenant.
13/05/2026

I only expect you to have this type of TV setup if you live in your own house, not as a tenant.

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