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Increased Rent?: Here's what the law says about landlords

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 3 months ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 12 paracetamol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • Togbe Kporwomordzikpo KpornugloAvumako 3 months ago

    My friend, forget about that useless institution called rent control. Follow their advice and get evicted by your landlord. May be you've not heard that some rent control offices have been closed due to their failure inabilit ...
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  • JESUS IS GOD 3 months ago

    Jesus Christ loves you and wants to save you from sin and its consequences. Vanity upon vanity—everything in this world is meaningless without Him. He died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again on the third ...
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  • Lordma 3 months ago

    Don't say anything nonsense what about the air BNB price for a day charges and you are comparing monthly rent look at the prices and labor cost aday as at now . The only problem is salaries are too weak for workers

  • Hagoa Lovely 3 months ago

    So you see,as usual we are overlooking the obvious. That is why many landlords are not renting out their rooms. To think that a tenant will disrespect the landlord because of some law.

  • CB Agyeman 3 months ago

    In 1963 landlords were chasing prospective tenants to rent their properties because there were more spaces in the cities than those searching for properties to rent.Today is vice versa.The state has failed to provide accommod ...
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  • Ben 3 months ago

    Well, landlords will begin to keep their keys to themselves. After all the house is a private property and the landlord is not obliged to rent it out. Who controls prices of other items in Ghana, if I may ask? If demand and s ...
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  • Kofi, USA 3 months ago

    So much has changed since rent control bill was enacted. What was Ghana's population 62 years ago? Dr. Kwame Nkroma was our President. No wonder landlords pay no attention to this outmoded rules.
    Today's law makers don't ha ...
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  • Gavoe 3 months ago

    Law books in Ghana make great door stops. Especially landlord/ tenant and employer / employee laws. The law here is a matter of who can afford the biggest bribes. Greed is the rule of law.

  • Kwabena-kan Richard 3 months ago

    In fact is so pathetic to see usual incremental jump in renting of room in Ghana more especially the student in UEW and beyond.

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • Ike 3 months ago

    If ghana is having rent control why it doesn't have control of the building materials just look the prices

  • KKK 3 months ago

    Because of such laws, property owners prefer their uncompleted buildings unoccupied than give it and regret later.Na who cause am?

  • Majj 3 months ago

    How many accommodation have you built for renting. Do you writer knows what interests loans are paid by the landlords.

  • Kwaku 3 months ago

    Rent Control Officers are completely out of touch. Or better still the law operates in books but not on the ground.

  • Northern Boy 3 months ago

    Someone needs to do something about this arbitrary rent increase menace in Ghana

  • K. Bells 3 months ago

    Someone like who

  • Samurai 3 months ago

    that institution needs to be shut down.