Rent is now Mr. Rent

May 06, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh the rental market done reach a place where even the landlords blinking twice before they write down the price—just to make sure them hand ain’t slip.

The other day dem boys see one advertisement: “Three-bedroom, fully furnished flat – $350,000 per month.” Dem boys seh, wait… that price include the neighbours too? Or at least a small swimming pool in the kitchen?

Now, to be fair—because dem boys like to be fair sometimes—when you sit down and actually think about it, building that flat ain’t cheap. Cement price gone up, steel gone up, tiles looking like they were imported from Mars, and don’t even start on the cost of a decent couch. By the time you finish furnish the place with nice fridge, stove and one bed that does make you feel like you sleeping in a hotel, you already deep in expenses.

So yes, the man who build it got to make a return. Nobody ain’t running charity with mortgage payments knocking every month like a debt collector with a megaphone.

But then dem boys seh—hold on a minute—who supposed to live in that place? Because when you do the maths, it start looking like a joke without a punchline. If husband making $120,000 and wife making $150,000, them combined salary still can’t even shake hands with that rent. That rent alone eating the whole paycheck and still asking for dessert.

So dem boys wondering if these apartments come with invisible tenants. Or maybe the target market is people who does get paid in oil barrels instead of Guyana dollars.

One man tell dem boys he thinking to rent half a bedroom—he say he willing to sleep diagonal just to cut cost. Another one say, he considering a long-distance relationship with his landlord, hoping love might bring down the rent.

But jokes aside, dem boys seh, this oil economy got people floating at the top while the small man trying not to drown. Because when rent alone looking like a luxury item, you got to ask: how the average family supposed to survive?

Dem boys seh at this rate, soon the only thing affordable would be the “For Rent” sign itself.

Talk half. Leff half.

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