Viewed From Inside
It's challenging to believe what people have been saying. Except when you know someone, you can't know how sweet that person is.
Five years ago, my husband was searching for a house for rent. He moved around the whole of the town without seeing a single house. He went to a place where one of his friends introduced him to. The gentleman is an agent who deals with renting houses for anyone who needs it. He took my husband to a house that was under his care, but the price was just too much. He again took my husband to an area called Agric. This place is a place where rich people reside. We got to the place and the cost again sent us on motion.
The house agent got fed up and called one of his friends, who was also an agent. He finally directed us to a place where there are two self-contained. My husband loved this place. We contacted the landlord immediately. He was living in the compound but just left for an assignment. He asked them to wait a bit and that he would be home soon. I later went to meet with my husband and joined the waiting queue. Within a few hours, he came in, and the way he looked sent some messages to my head. He looked just like someone who would be wicked.
I first greeted him, and he answered without wasting much time. We asked him how much he would give us for the house, but he said a huge amount, which we were not prepared for. We started begging him, and he said we should go home. In the end, he said he would not drop his house unless we agreed to his price. My husband wanted to agree, but I used some tactics to speak to him. So, we left home. A man we saw who knew the man said he was a wicked man. We were getting frustrated after hearing from another woman that he was a wicked fellow who loved money so much.
We went back to meet with the man and begged him for the last time. After too much begging, he accepted and immediately my husband made the payment. After three weeks, we started living in the compound. We were just somehow careful not to attend to him, and also just to make sure we did not see the other side of him.
After living for three months, we discovered that he was a good man. He was different from the way people described him to be. He was so sweet in character. I told him I would be relocating my shop closer to the house, and he helped me find a nearby place. He even helped me with his cement just to floor the shop. I was so surprised to see him so different from what people knew him to be. Maybe they are seeing the outer side of him, but they have never had the opportunity to talk to him one-on-one.
This is what I call knowing someone from the inside.
After two years, my husband was not having the house rent to pay at that moment, and he went straight to meet with him. He explained to him about his present condition, but to our greatest surprise, he said “I'm not bothered, I knew you were going to pay me even if not now. Don't worry, just take your time and any time you have it, you can pay”.
It was just like a shock to us. No landlord would ever behave this way, not even the way he was described by people. My husband finally got the money and asked him for his account number. He said, “Please, if you know you still need the money, you can still keep it, I'm not disturbing you, OK?” This was another shock to us.
He is a good man and sweet deep inside of him.
You were very fortunate to find a compassionate landlord. Not many are as lucky as you.
With respect to your writing, this piece would be elevated if you approached it more from a Show don't tell perspective and if you used a grammar checker to put it through its paces and do a stringent edit before publishing. You could try writing your drafts in Google docs or using Grammarly to edit. It is also a little difficult to discern whether or not the landlord's character has developed and undergone a transformation or whether his true nature was simply not available to all to see.
One anomaly I picked up is:
Who exactly is speaking here and the sentence is somewhat anomalous?
Thank you for sharing a story from your life with The Ink Well.
It was an oversight. I have corrected it. Thanks fkr spotting it out for me.
You are very lucky to have an amazing person as that as your landlord. He is really a sweet soul.
Sometimes even though advices are very much needed, it's equally important to have your own opinions and experiences first hand.
You were both lucky to have still gone ahead and paid up, if not you might've lost the opportunity of having a great landlord.
Yeah, we don't wanna judge from the outward appearance or rumours made by people, the man is actually nice. You can promote this post via
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Getting a reasonable and considerate landlord is rare, nice write up from you.I noticed that you have not made a thread on Inleo and you are missing a lot.You can start with just a few words and see the engagement
Your landlord is a lovely soul. It could be that those people that were telling you he was a bad man never really knew him that much. That is why it is important to have an encounter with someone before making conclusions.