Stop guessing with your money.
Before You Put Money In That… takes you deeper beyond land banking, location, and the marketing hype, to know for yourself and decide whether a piece of land, a building, or a deal is worth the value someone is asking you to pay for.
A Practical Guide to Diagnosing Real Estate Investments in Nigeria, for the Middle-Class Investor Who Wants More.
Available internationally as ebook & paperback across multiple stores.
What's inside?
Before You Put Money In That… gives you a working method for reading a market, trends, a corridor that will appreciate, and even a business partner, before your capital ever moves.
Investing is not the same as owning property. And not every real estate investment involves owning a property.
Investment is the relationship between your capital, how well you understand the risks it comes with, and the outcomes you want.
— Before You Put Money in That
"What makes the book particularly engaging is the language. You do not need to be an economist or urban planner to follow the conversation. The examples feel familiar, relatable, and grounded in the realities of everyday life. This is a book that makes you pause, look again at the world around you, and see the economic potential hidden in ordinary places and moments. Informative, accessible, and thought-provoking..."
Damilola Moyosore
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BETA reader.
What makes this book different?
This isn't another book on how/where to buy land on the outskirts and wait.
Before You Put Money In That… sits somewhere between urban economics, personal finance, real estate practice, and plain diagnostic method. Instead of handing you one strategy and telling you where to apply it, it teaches the reasoning that tells you whether any given strategy actually fits the specific plot, the specific capital, and the specific moment in front of you.
01
Rising price is not evidence of value.
A flyer that reads "prices to increase by month end", a billboard, and a growth-rate statistic all cost nothing to publish. This book teaches you how to read and measure the real evidence of value that is worth betting your money on.
02
The cost of an investment is never just the sale price.
A property's real cost is the sum of all it requires to turn it into a legal, bankable, and transferable leverage. The sale price is only where that sum begins.
03
Every good investment has a corresponding risk.
What makes the difference is identifying it and knowing who owns, bears, or handles it when it arises. This book teaches you how to create structures for managing risks.
This is a book about the specific, step-by-step decisions and actionable strategies that separate a real investment from a mistake, and how to make each one deliberately for individual investments no matter the location.
“How to build wealth with real estate” is everywhere and in every real estate book.
Not this one.
This book (written on lessons from close to two decades of working, building, failing, and building again across architecture, construction, and managing housing developments in Nigeria's real estate market) only cares about helping the middle class who want to achieve economic mobility through real estate get investing right.
The right investment produces cash flow, preserves capital, creates options, and helps a middle-class household move up the economic ladder.
Not this one.
This book (written on lessons from close to two decades of working, building, failing, and building again across architecture, construction, and managing housing developments in Nigeria's real estate market) only cares about helping the middle class who want to achieve economic mobility through real estate get investing right.
The right investment produces cash flow, preserves capital, creates options, and helps a middle-class household move up the economic ladder.
who is it for?
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For the middle-class Nigerian planning a first move into property, or a newer investor looking to grow a modest portfolio into something larger.
First-time land buyers, diaspora investors, small business owners, civil servants, rental property owners, aspiring developers, and anyone tired of guessing whether an investment is real, fake, or just well marketed trouble waiting to happen.
READ on any device.
Beyond price and location, and if used properly, real estate is a tool for genuine cash flow and economic mobility, not simply an outcome you hope for.
Before You Put Money In That… breaks down exactly how.
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242 Pages
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Independently Published
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English
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2.2MB
Six things determine whether any real estate is worth investing in or not. And price is not one of them.
Understanding and measuring the six things is what makes the difference between an investment and an expensive mistake.
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