21/10/2024
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CAN A TENANT CLAIM COMPENSATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS MADE ON A PROPERTY FROM THE LANDLORD?
A tenant who wishes to improve the facilities in a rented apartment has to inform the landlord in writing of his intention to make such adjustments.
Section 6(2) of the Tenancy Law of Lagos State provides that:
*_Where a tenant with the previous consent in writing of the landlord, effects improvements on the premises and the landlord determines the tenancy, such a tenant shall be entitled to claim compensation for the effected improvements on quitting the premises._*
This means that where a tenant improves on the property with the consent of the landlord, the tenant would be entitled to claim compensation if the landlord evicts him.
If however, there is no written consent or the consent was refused by the landlord, the tenant is not entitled to compensation for the improvements.
Also, if the tenant voluntarily leaves the apartment at, or before the expiration of the tenancy, the tenant can not coerce the landlord to pay compensation for the improvements.
The intent of the law, it would appear, is to preclude a landlord from evicting a tenant after the tenant has made substantial structural improvements to the premises.
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