HOW NANA OWITI BUILT 13 RENTAL HOUSES AT 24

TV personality Nana Owiti has talked about building her empire at the age 24 years old.

Taking to Instagram on August 18, Nana shared her journey after she was unexpectedly forced to become a parent, “Most of you don’t remember what you were doing at 22. I didn’t have that luxury. For me, every decision was calculated subconsciously sometimes. I became a parent in my teens by the virtue of losing both our parents. Life didn’t give me time to prepare for what that looked like and neither did it hand me a manual. My mother’s shoes had to be filled quickly! My 9 years old sister had to have a ‘mother’ or something close to that.” 

To make her life better, Nana decided to build makati houses for rentals, “Thinking back, I always thought I didn’t have a choice but to step up but now I know for sure I had a choice. I had an option. I would have simply cowed in and thrown in the towel if I wanted to. I had an excuse, I was a freaking child! Instead of excuses, I found a reason to fight. You see those mabati houses right behind me in this pic? I built those! Not from anyone’s money but my grind’s! Most of those mabatis were from scrap.

The first house the one painted (I’ve always had crazy tenants! Every lot had a crazy one. I have a series of weird stories. Jesus! I’ve had another lifetime before this one) that was my first house to build. It’s my favourite because it unlocked something deeply in me. I was 20 when I had that constructed. By the time I was 24 I had 13 rental houses! I was a landlady!”

She encouraged people in their 20s not to waste their lives, “I don’t know who I am talking to but age should never be an excuse to do damn sh*t. Also, to be the best you must be able to handle the worst. Life will always knock you down. Yes! Go down but don’t stay down! Manze halafu don’t wait to have it all to do what you plan to do. You will never have it all. Start where you are and with what you have because Everything you need, you have. Never be scared to start small. Also stay prayed up!”