You spend weeks, sometimes months, trekking from one house to the next. The one with no water. The one where the bathroom situation is a whole conversation. The one that looked perfect in the photos and turned out to be a single room staring at a wall. Then finally, finally, you find one you can actually live in and afford.
That is when they hit you with the entry fee. Three months of rent, sometimes six, paid up front, before you have slept a single night in the place. Plus the broker's cut, for a man whose whole job was to point at the door.
Think about how mad that actually is. You are handing a stranger months of your money to live somewhere you have not tested for a day. If the roof leaks in month two, that is your problem now. You already paid for the rest in advance.
There is nothing else in life we buy this way. You do not pay three months of electricity before they switch it on. You do not pay three months of data before you load a single page. Only housing, and only because the landlord holds all the cards and you hold none.
And here is the part that gets me as a builder. We are a region obsessed with fintech. Everything is mobile money, everything is an app. And one of the biggest payments most people make all year is still a fat brick of cash, handed over in advance, on nothing but trust and desperation.
Somebody is going to fix how rent gets paid here. Spread it, hold it, release it as the months are actually lived. Whoever does it is going to let a lot of people breathe.
He used to walk door to door in Kampala as a university student, asking strangers if they had work he could do.
Now Allan Tumuhimbise is building a platform for the millions of Ugandans who still start every week from zero. And it's taking off.
But, curiously, how he's gone about it involves deliberate choices that go against typical startup logic.
For instance, a sign-up process that actually reduced daily registrations.
And, somehow, it turns out it's working.
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This episode of #TheUgandanPodcast spotlights the dreamers and doers turning Ugandan innovation into global influence.
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Join @abwandera as she chats with @PearlGakazi of @kolaborate_p, Eng. @iBaino from @Makerere, and @hakiza256 of VESTAFI.
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