Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:34:14 +0000 Lusaka boarding houses ridiculously expensive Dear Editor, The charges landlords are demanding just for a bed space in boarding houses in Lusaka are ridiculously exorbitant as opposed to their counterparts on the Copperbelt. At some boarding houses, students are paying as much as between K1, 000 and K2, 000 for a bed space a month. Surely this is way too much, especially where landlords are offering substandard facilities! Many are actually. What these landlords seem to forget is that their tenants are students who do not work and therefore rely on parents. So where do these landlords expect these students to get money from. K1000 or worse K1,500 is too much and by the way this is rent parents are paying for the whole house in some areas. It is clear here that the whole concept of boarding houses has been misunderstood by many so-called landlords and this has been […]
