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MICRO-FINANCE
How Saving Ksh. 200 weekly made me a land owner
able him to buy a piece of land around Nairobi and its environment because it is very expensive.
Words Username Properties
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ared Obara is a bodaboda rider who plies his trade around Westlands in Nairobi. Through his hustle, he is able to fend for his family and save atleast Ksh 200 per week in a Chama with his mates. Back in 2017, he saw Username Properties advertising lands but he wasn’t keen on buy land. He could not imagine cumulatively; his weekly savings would enStartupmagazine.co.ke
April 2020
To his surprise, the prices of the advertised land were way beyond his imagination. “The plots were selling for Ksh 349,000, to me this was a too good to be true deal in Nairobi. I mean, who sells land in Ngong for Ksh 300,000? If the advert had mentioned over 1 Million that would be okay because that’s how prices of property around Nairobi sells anyway,” he narrates. He goes on, “The adverts continued
and I decided to test my curiosity, having learnt that the Company had an office in Westlands, I decided to give them an impromptu visit in between my schedules. When I got to the office maybe the front office executive thought I was there to do a delivery because indeed I was on my full protective gear. Little did she know I had come to verify about Ngong plots selling at an affordable price to me.” He booked a site visit and informed his fellow Chama members about the deal. A number of them were hesitant but a bunch agreed a went the site visit to view the plots. They were in a gated, in
