The account of my last and final oy vaavoy visit to the Donggwang Ode County. The purpose of the visit: I talked to a good public attorney and he advised me to get the legal closure of the contract. The contract mentions a termination letter, I inquired by email DCC lawyer, but didnt get any reply. It is pretty serious issue, so they would not tell me later they hold the unit waiting for a formal move from my side. An unfinished business is not a provocation. I was in Manila for 3 days, so I allocated one day and went there on October 22. First of all the property security now reminds that one of a fortress. Guards are posted on entries of every building. Other guards are patrolling. There are security cameras. I went to the admin office, the time was around 11:45am (almost lunch break). I talked to the lawyer, he admitted the termination letter wasnt sent, and he told he only does what he is told to do and he didnt get a command from above to mail a termination letter. He advised me to go to the sales office and told that they are in charge. Then I went to the sales office and asked the assistant manager, he advised me to go back to the admin office. I told him Ive just went there and then told him about termination clause of the contract, that while the contract is not formally terminated they have to deal with me as tenant, then I mentioned the fake notarization, he replied that to notarize they just bring the documents to a notary (without the buyer, so nothing changed), I opened my laptop to show him the law on the Notary Practice in a friendly gesture so he will be aware that the practice is illegal here in the Philippines. The assistant manager reaction - he calls an armed guard, then the second armed guard joined him. I wonder if the assistant manager did it in the first time, since it was very fast. In the country I grew in there was military training for 3 years in the high school, then 4 years there was military training in the university, then I moved to another country and had there 6 months of full time military training and then for around 10 years I served in the army for around a month each year with shooting practice while carrying automatic weapon all the time. The purpose is not clear since I just try to clarify who is in charge to solve a legitimate problem. The security officer arrives, I explain to him the problem, he understands, the assistant manager finally waves them to go (since there no ground whatsoever, no conflict). It is good foreigners are not allowed to carry a weapon, if the guards were Koreans frankly I wouldnt feel safe. From that point on Im followed by an armed guard. It is the lunch time, the armed guard calls me and shows me the property manager (who deals with building repair, the subject I may cover in the future). We talk, it immediately becomes clear he is not in charge of contract termination matters. After the lunch break I go towards the admin office. Im not allowed in there, the security officer goes there instead and the lawyer relay the same reply the sales office is in charge. So I go back to the sales office. The sales manager arrives. He informs me that he will use the recorder. When I explain him I need a termination letter to have the contract legal closure he doesnt want to understand. He brags about me going against them and causing damage to the company. He persists in asking what I want trying to change the subject to refund even as the matter has been absolutely clarified by him and the reply was unequivocally negative, so nothing to talk about. He slips the word that since I had asked for refund the fact has terminated the contract already. More threats, then he informs me that he bans me from the entry to the property. The conclusions: 1. They may resort to using armed guards against visitors, who dont pose property security risk and are not in physical confrontation. I wont speculate further about such security arrangements and its applicability e.g. to conflicts with tenants. 2. Instead of resolving contract issues within the contract clauses - a termination letter ending the contract would be easy to produce and it would have the same effect especially when the other party in the contract is requesting it, in my case they preferred to use an uncivilized method of the sales manager trying to play an iterrogator and then calling security forcing them to act as bouncers which is more appropriate when running a night club, not a retirement condo project. 3. It appears while their policy is not to tell who is in charge - their sales manager is in charge, but I stil dont know for sure and the lack of transparency is evident. Their lawyer doesnt have a say in legal issues and only follows orders of the person in charge.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:32:19 +0000
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