Woman Dumped by Hubby Builds Beautiful Home, Rentals after Hustling as 'Okada' Rider
- In 2017, Eunice Otieng thought her life was crumbling to pieces; her husband duped her into taking loans and left her to service them on her own
- She also had months-long rent arrears and her landlord even closed down her house, leaving her and the baby out in the cold
- Now, four years later, the Busia woman inspired many after becoming both a landlord and a homeowner
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Would you have told Eunice Otieng' that one day she would be a landlord in 2017 when her life was falling apart, she would have told you to pinch yourself back to reality.
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By then, she was having a myriad of challenges; her husband whom she had financially supported had ditched her for another woman, leaving her with huge loans to service.
Speaking to YEN.com.gh, the mother of one baby girl recounted she and her daughter became homeless after the landlord closed down their house due to months-long rent arrears.
However, being the strong woman she is, Otieng, who works as a nurse said she decided to pick up the pieces and rebuild her life from scratch.
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"I almost ran mad with my small salary. I had no option but to think about how to start life from zeros. I had a motorcycle which I took and I started boda boda job," she said.
Working as a boda boda rider
Being that her salary as a nurse was going into the repayment of the loans that she took for her ex-spouse, she did night shifts and so during the day, she hustled as a boda boda rider.
She saved a sum of KSh 26,000 and started a small business in 2018. Since she had a piece of land that she had bought before marriage, she started building her house.
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"I decided that I will work hard for my baby to get the best. I think I was working hard with a lot of anger to change my life. That's why I was able to finish the house," Otieng said.
She also had savings for her baby and she decided to use them to build the rentals which she recently finished.
The hardworking Busia woman said she gifted her five-year-old daughter the rentals to heal the pain they went through when the landlord closed their house due to rent arrears.
"I gifted her the houses to wipe the tears we cried when the landlord was locking our house. I vowed to make her a landlady at this tender age," she said.
Nairobi woman moves into four-bedroomed house
In another inspirational story, YEN.com.gh also reported about Licette Otekho and her husband who recently moved into their own four-bedroom house that took three years to build.
It was a rollercoaster journey that taught her how to start small and trust in God to achieve even the scariest of dreams.
Based on her firsthand experience, she advised those who are yet to build to start small and trust in the process.
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