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In two weeks we will be on the 3F of the Justice Hall in a courtroom with the Register of Deeds as respondent where my Attorney will be demanding and explanation from that office as to how they could allow a scam-adverse claim to have been filed by a family member the land we bought from his family with his agreement. His adverse claim filing means nothing other than to discourage cash buyers from buying your land. Why did the RoD allow the fake filing? Well, it will be funny hearing what they have to say in open court. They must be so surprised, never thinking that the new owners of 2004 would ever actually “move” here and be able to plant our feet on the ground permanently and sue them right here in Dumaguete; to do whatever it takes! Yes, it costs me money to do this. My other option was to pay the family member scammer US 3K so he would remove the adverse claim based on some extrajudicial settlement amongst brothers and sisters divvying up land that they had no control over because dad had sold the land to a richer daughter 8 years previously and whose records are right there in the RoD, backing up our claim to free and clear status with the RoD. Sorry scammer, no pay you SOB.Here is my point: Watch out in the Philippines! I am about to flag this to the Duterte anti corruption project. But watch out; know that Philippine real estate law is based on American law which is based on old English law, which dates back to the magna carta. In itself this means nothing except that old English law was practiced by people who valued gentlemen’s agreements, a buy-in to play by basic rules of good conduct, honesty and good faith that the seller or buyer will not lie, betray or otherwise try to screw you later on, not taking advantage of the “code of honor” amongst businessmen. Under English law, you can totally screw up the system if you are dishonest and you can get away with it. Good if you have a lawyer, however, STILL no guarantees. In the US and Probably UK, civil methods are place as tools to protect against land scammers in spite of the generally honest land dealings back home. There you will find things like “title insurance” to protect you and to chase away dishonest little family scammers with their tail between their legs. I have never heard of that being available here. There must be a reason. I know I will be ok on the waste of time attempted land scam, and I suspect some RoD people may be embarrassed in court in a few weeks, and who knows, with this new Duterte anti corruption attitude in place I may even see a little justice, such as having my legal fees paid for. If I lose? The fight has just begun.


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Thank's, I found my "dream-lot" now in Valencia/Jawa and start with construction.

 

for local interest; there are several "buy and sell dumaguete" facebook sites, some bigger, some smaller, inexpensive property is sold relatively fast there, nationwide online selling at Property 24, Lamudi, Persquare, OLX Philippines, Mitula, to name the bigger ones

 

LOL Yes too small!

I WISH I had have bought the 3x 1-Hectare lots (for less) which were available when I bought this Lot. This Lot is one house off of the Highway, very close to the Malatapay Markets, it is very convenient, no need to own a Car as we catch the Jeepney's or local Tricycles to Dumaguete once a month. Just now; my wife is seeing things as I do, and would rather be further away from the 'obvious' as well as neighbours etc.

We would love to be able to build a House well away from our planned Pig Sty's and Chicken Coops etc, as we want to become self sufficient growing our own Meat and Crops etc. We are not planning on anything fancy, maybe a Mexican Desert style House with a terrace on top, small, abstract, comfortable, nice thick walls and insulated from the elements. (Think: Fred Flintsone's House lol) A small Pool is on the bucket list for somewhere to exercise and cool off, just for us, not the entire Barangay, which would most likely be the case if we built one here.

We have a small Nipa Rest House on the lot and are currently having a Bamboo Chicken Coop built which I think is around 4M x 6M (I have not looked at it yet) and it is beginning to look a tad crowded towards the end where we would like to put our House, so might be better to cut our losses and find somewhere with more land before we sink money into it we may not recover.