Where do you get money to buy real estate? You probably work an 8 to 5 desk job for which you receive a salary at the end of the month (in arrears). You put aside some savings for 5 years, take a sacco loan to buy a 1/8 plot of land at Rongai. How many people do you employ? What your contribution to the economy? Now ask yourself, who is the genius? The person you work for 8-5 or yourself? You sell your empty 1/8 plot in Rongai after 5 years for double the price. You are now a certified genius right? But wait, what would have happened if GOK didn't upgrade that dust road, your neighbours didnt build those nearby schools, nyama choma vibandas, clinics? But wait, why are you working your 8-5 job? I thought your real estate investment made you rich? Now your employer has transferred you to Rongai Branch as the Assistant Manager? Who is the genius, you or your employer? Lesson for the day:- Passive real estate is an investment for the lazy and unimaginative.

If you have to grope in the dark seeking answers to some of these questions then clearly you are not cut out for real estate, brother. Just mark time hapo hapo waiting for Godot, munching your "safe" payslip nation paycheck monthly

Buying empty lots in the Kajiado dust bowls .

And there lies the most important factor in real estate investments. As the platitude goes, real estate is about location, location, location. If i was to buy a plot in Ruaka today, i will build a Umoja-kayole-githurai-pipeline-mwiki-mathare north-roy sambu-style apartment because that what Ruaka is....an over-glorified slum. Unfortunately, that is the reality across the country.The government of kikuyus and other greedy tribes has left wanjiku(taxpayers) at the mercy of dumb greedy kikuyus (and other greedy tribes) landlords. We have wazuans here dreaming of squeezing 60 one-bedroom houses on 33 by 66 feet plots in residential flats of 6 floors. These are Houses without natural light(sunlight) which denies children of vitamin D leading to health complications such as iron-deficiency, pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis etc. To top it all, since all the greedy landlords(kikuyus and others) have planted their 30 by 60 apartments wall-to-wall, there are no playing fields and recreation areas for Kenyas future generation therefore, we read of stories of kids turning roy-sambu flyover and other risky places into a playing fields.Let me not even talk of how much rent these greedy ilk is raking from poor helpless and hapless wanjiku for such hujuma ya hali ya juu. Only proper urban- planning and zoning will stop this madness and this require serious government policy. When Pope Francis visited Kangemi and saw human beings living like pigs in tin-shacks defecating on juala and hauling the contents on rooftops, he told Uhuru that Kenyan mabwenyenye greed will be our(Kenyan) undoing.Perhaps, this observation by the pope is what inspired Uhuru to build proper houses for wananchi, but as things stand, these affordable houses might never see light of day, reason being that ground breaking that was meant to be in May huko parkroad/Jericho/mbotela estate did not happen and now we are headed to July and what we see on tv is an overated PS of housing speaking kizungu mingi but hakuna kitu inaendelea... Anyway, real estate is a good investment. But i recommend you build houses even you yourself can live in complete with thorough consideration of innocent Kenyan children, persons living with disabilities and the elderly. Hii mabo ya kujenga nyumba ya gorofa bila dirisha na ground floor ni ma wines and spirits tuwache jameni...ama namna gani jamma?

Not to deter the discussion so far, but how would one go about buying land along the LAPSSET corridor?