Best Posts in Thread: 181 establishments found operating with no permits

The number is massively low, maybe they didn't check to make sure they are real permits. The permit situation is very expensive for a small business in Dumaguete and very very tedious and long in most cases unless you grease the wheels. There are also quite a few people who do your permit for you but the majority of them end up with fake permits being handed over to you but it was far cheaper.

Add in many of the places can't get a building permit because how far back the business is from the street keeps changing or the street creeps up on them everytime its redone. Many business's that were built and great 10 years ago no longer are eligible without moving the entire building back a bit. Of course greasing the wheels a bit helps sometimes as well but not always because someone much more powerful may want to make sure said building permit can't be renewed so the property hopefully gets sold.

 

We run a small resort here and have been working at renewing our permits for nearly a year..We pay taxes every quarter, have paid all the fee's for the yearly fire inspection, building inspection, sanitary permit etc etc etc..We were told not to worry about a permit as we have all the receipts. No one has come to do the fire inspection, building inspection, sanitary inspection and we cannot get a Mayors permit until these inspections are done.. That's my answer..