Owerri Residents Groan Over Exorbitant House Rents

For residents, finding an affordable house in Owerri may be likened to a Herculean task, only achievable with a huge financial war chest and the ability not to get offended.
Residents complain that it is increasingly difficult to get a new apartment, not because people are relocating from the villages or other States to Owerri.
According to them, they have to endure exorbitant house rents and greedy house agents, always ready to trick house seekers out of hard-earned resources.
Findings showed that prospective tenants pay for forms to a house agent. And when the house is secured through several referrals from other agents, the agreement fee is increased so that every agent can recei...