Director of Communications and Cooperation Affairs for the National Tenants Union of Ghana, Reindolph Afrifa-Oware , has disclosed that tenants do not necessarily have to be friends with their landlords.
According to him, the same way not everyone at your workplace is your friend not everyone in your house especially your landlord should be your friend.
Speaking in an interview with Sefah-Danquah on Happy 98.9FM’s Happy Morning Show he said, “The relationship between a landlord and tenant is a business relationship it’s not a friendly relationship. It’s purely transactional after paying your rent he has to give you your property and that should be it”.
He explained that this is why at the national tenants union they always advise for tenants to always have their tenancy agreement.
“The contract or business between the landlord or tenant is your tenancy agreement so you should always have it. The only relationship should be the transaction between the two which is the tenant paying the rent and the landlord giving the property to the tenant and all these should be stated in the tenancy agreement that should be the only relationship the two should have” he emphasized.
He however added that if the a tenant decides to extend it to friendship and other things come up it has nothing to do with the national tenants union of Ghana as it is a personal choice and between the two parties.
“But ideally the relationship between the landlord and the tenant is purely transactional and should always be in the tenancy agreement” he said.
