Chapter 72 THE FIRST BLOW

I bought the building the next week at a whooping one hundred and twenty million naira. Mr. Kinsley initial price was one hundred and fifty million, thinking that it would keep me off. He sold it eventually at my price after a couple of haggling, and he delivered the keys of the house the next day.

I was to bear the liabilities as well as the assets, he said. He told me that two tenants have paid their rent while the other two had not. I asked for the names of the defaulters.

Mr. Kingsley had looked at me.

“If I wasn’t a man that has seen a lot, I would say maybe you bought the building to victimize the tenants," he said. "The way you insisted on buying the building at this ridiculous price, and the way you keep asking about the tenants, I am convinced that you have another motive from just the interest in buying the house.”

I shrugged. “Who knows?” I said and smile. “It’s good doing business with you.” I shook his hands.

“You paid for a property that you did not even see the inside,”