Best Posts in Thread: should i use a damme for land and 50 year lease?

Yes, that’s the way it works. If you come here alone with no family support and don’t understand the culture, that is one thing. Here you should always consider balance of family and community power, people who will naturally look out for you as you look out for them, knowing that “most” people who would want to have a person killed do not want to kick the bucket themselves. So you have nephews and brother in laws and people in the community. If you get involved in drugs or deal with drug addicts or love triangles etc.. your balance of power is lacking. The Philippines is actually quite civilized with its social checks and balances. But yes, be careful whether you live in downtown Miami or Dumaguete Phils.


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Of course we have thought of that and people tend to bring that up all the time. It is an obvious exposure in this country. If the guy was so inclined to do that, it would happen whether I am personally “having fun with this” or not so I don’t understand that part of what you are saying. Even the excellent security we have established cannot absolutely guarantee full protection; at the same time, we cannot and will not allow fear to rule our lives and we refuse to do that in our older years. People who would allow fear and intimidation to rule their lives should not live in this country.


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Rye, here is the case:

Quote: “An interesting case decided by the Supreme Court was that of Spouses Chua vs. Soriano, GR 150066 promulgated on April 13, 2007, about the use of falsified Special Power of Attorney (SPA), how it affects an innocent buyer, in good faith and for value. In that case, the registered owner of a titled property entrusted another person for safe-keeping of the title. The trusted person executed a Special Power of Attorney and forged the signature of the owner, making it appear that he was authorized to sell the property. A third person then purchased the property.

The Supreme Court ruled that the buyer was in good faith. Although the signature in the SPA was subsequently declared by the trial court to have been falsified, it would not revoke the title subsequently issued in favor of the third-party buyer. The reliance by the buyer on the duly notarized SPA presented is sufficient evidence of good faith. Buyer need not prove anything more for it is already the function of the notarial acknowledgment to establish the appearance of the parties to the document, its due execution and authenticity.

This case was a shock to many foreign-based landowners, a reality check on whether they should leave the original owner’s copy to someone, or to think about issuing power of attorney to anyone. Also, a frequent problem is the issue of selling a property in installment, where the buyer who does not pay in full and obtains an SPA creates a problem on the title of the owner.”


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