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Am wrote:webish wrote:Am wrote:Gathige wrote:webish wrote:Gathige wrote:@Josiah33 ,Oletepesi is no deal. You can get an acre at about 150k. Do the maths. The road is currently terrible and place quite hot and remote.
1/8th is not worth unless you are buying 100s of acres
Good insight. I realize, One of the reasons why folks go for plots sold by companies is to avoid the hustle of getting title changed etc etc.
how better do you advice guys to get that land cheaper from real owners, considering most are employed, or are busy?
@webish, One trick is to befriend brokers. Once the brokers are your friends, negotiate a cut with them and then ask them to introduce you to the owner of the land and then negotiate directly. Brokers control the land market in Kenya and are a land buyers best friends.
@Gathige. WORKS GREAT!!!
@Gathige and @AM , Thanks. But do you mean the brokers uko mashinani? or the ones in Nairobi?
Either way.
A few months a go, I went with a Nairobi Plot seller to some place where the greater easter bypass will pass, near the Illuluwe golf project that seems to me dead. She was selling plots there. We were met by her broker on the ground as he was to show her some other piece on offer. The Kamba chap is a parrot, talks non stop and those are great characters if you know how to handle them and so I made sure I got his No, called him a few Saturdays ago for Nyama choma somewhere in athi river. He sees a brown bottle and became beserk. Of course the lady does not know all this. The rest is history, he calls me endlessly with with offers by old wazees that side laking pesa ndio shinda. You will get shocked at how much these guys who buy land and subdivide make. Of course you've got to be very careful but my point is, you win big by bypassing the broker.
@Am,Great you discovered that. In land matters, brokers are the kings. The sellers make a kill
"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
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