One John Njoroge Paul of JNP properties sold an idea 2 yrs ago about this development of residential houses along mombasa road - Jopa Villas and took 10% deposits from humble kenyans (See www.jopavillas.com). Now 2 yrs down the road the company does not answer nor return calls or mail,there website is on and off (and when it's on there are no more updates) . Is this a con by the guy who is reputed to even own a plane in Texas? Where the heck are this JNP people and will they ever deliver (complete) these houses? I am calling on other members who invested in this scheme to join me in DEMANDING answers or our money back. In unity we can! Class action lawsuit!!??? You can reach me at wasike_joseph at yahoo dot com

wen buying property always be wise. Process is lengthy & intricate. Were you buying off plan or wat was the arrangement?

I live one day at a time,without counting yesterday

Th guy has another office in Texas. As of last week the voicemail is full and cannot take anymore messages. The guy has stoped communication with his customers. i guess he will have to sell his so called plane and settle with us.. think about it if he put all the deposit money into a fixed deposit account he is laughing all the way to the bank from interest income.

To answer some more questions: The houses were being sold off plan. Construction commenced but did not go on for long,with the houses in various stages of completion.

I see lawsuit as the way out..this smells like a con any day...

I sent JNP properties a registerd mail and it was returned by the post office because 'No one claimed it'. So these boys have gone underground or what?!. Anybody have their Nairobi office address or JNP's phone number......let us know...

Ati 2 years? This thing started around 2004-2005. I paid 1% (28k for the 3 b/room) with the agreement that I will pay the remaining 9% deposit once the hses were ready. My bank was do the 90% the rest via a mortgage. This was before they started threatening the guys who had paid 1% to top up to 10% because OPIC had refused to release additional funds until they saw 'committment'. Thank God I didn't.

What I could never figure is why it took years to complete just one show-house. Even with only 1% deposit from each applicant,you would only need 55 such deposits to complete a 3-broom hse including fittings. Yet the development boasts about 500 hses. The dude is a C.O.N.


Time and chance happen to all.

I had followed JNP properties and even talked with John Paul himself in view of riding his coattails and build even a small community next to his.

I went to Texas,and later found JP in California,I also went to Kenya to look at his land,which to my surprise was undeveloped land full of brush and occasional small acacia trees and a railway line quarter of a mile in the back,and all open space. This was in 2006,and I knew all JNP houses were sold out in a matter of a few weeks,mostly to Diaspora folks.

First,I was no longer impressed with the project and thought I could do better elsewhere,for which the current data /development bears this out. I thought it was a bad choice and I still do. A project of that magnitude does not make sense in that kind of a location.

I therefore started looking at the man JP and the project itself. JP is a self made man who also can easily self-destruct. Secondly,JP was just a front for a number of OPIC investors and the 6-9 million were actually contributed/promised by a number of American investors to develop housing in Kenya.

I also understand there are a number of infrastructural developments that needs to be done on the land and there are many issues outstanding between Jopa Villas and city in order to move ahead,I also hear JP has proven hard headed on some outstanding issues ranging from the land being public land and so forth ...

To those that bought the houses: unless this project is a resounding success,I doubt it will ever be what was visualized. I would strongly urge you to get your money and move on.




NSE ndume

Where are these villas in mulolongo for SK to avoid being conned.

info is money

Like I said good people JNP properties does not respond to calls nor mail,Infact a letter mailed to their texas office was returned because it was NOT CLAIMED. Therefore there is no office. This is what we should all do

1) Demand our money back in writting. cc OPIC

Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Information Officer,Office of External Affairs
1100 New York Avenue,NW
Washington,D.C. 20527

2) Call OPIC Anti-coruption hotline ( they will call you back even if you leave a message...beileve me this is the US gov)

OPIC Anti-Corruption HOTLINE
Call the HOTLINE to receive guidance on anti-corruption practices and to report allegations of corruption and fraud in connection with OPIC supported projects.

Anti-Corruption HOTLINE: (202)-312-2153

3) US Small claims court to recover my deposit....in 2 weeks...

If we all call and write to OPIC something has got to give...

OPIC website...

http://www.opic.gov/about/contact/index.asp

This is part of the reason most of us are afraid of doing any business in digz. Customer service is a word of the past. For a project of such a magnitude,John Paul should at least let people know of any genuine hiccups in the project and give people a timeline.

Has anyone spoken to the Kenyan office to here where they are with the project.




Chance favors the prepared mind.

bonnyboy,

kindly let me have your email