Apology.

Thanks Steve, for the update. No worries at all and it's still darn cheap in any case! I bet the prior owner was just tossing those, lol.

Cheers,
John

Thanks for you kind note, Steve.  Apology accepted.

I can see how you came to the assumption that you had.

All good my friend.

Cheers

PJ

pnwcyclist wrote:

Thanks Steve, for the update. No worries at all and it's still darn cheap in any case! I bet the prior owner was just tossing those, lol.

Cheers,
John

Thank you also John for understanding my, while innocent rhetoric at the time, was blatantly incorrect. Again my bad and the local municipal hall for not having a decent archive/computer system.
We went to pay the extra this morning and guess what,,,,,,,, yet another holiday "ramadan"/"eid al-Adha". 18 public holidays in PH, Australia only 10. Another trip tomorrow though only 6 minutes away had myself psyched up ready ready to be patient/bite my tongue with regards to the 800 pesos in fines for bills we never received, change the billing address etc.

Yes John while cheap for us compared to Australia more expensive than I sprouted but still very attainable.

Cheers, Steve.

pej1111 wrote:

Thanks for you kind note, Steve.  Apology accepted.

I can see how you came to the assumption that you had.

All good my friend.

Cheers

PJ

Pj, thanks for your kind words, I am humbled considering my rant against you defending my beliefs that turned out to be half truths. Please see my previous reply to pnw.

Cheers, Steve.

Yes regarding holidays I cannot believe how many there are. There are city holidays, like Cebu Charter Day, National holidays, religious holidays of all types, and then the schools have various special days off also. How do these people get anything done?

Oh wait.. hahaha...

Well John, we are guests and mostly 99% retired or only touring the balance of, the inconvenience comes when one wishes to conduct business for a multitude of reasons only to be thwarted yet again, Timing? Buyer beware and seriously look up the local/public holidays that apply to your locale and then some prior to attempting to conduct business.

Cheers, Steve.

Follow up on rates, wow going to the local municipal hall is similar to immi in Intramuros, go here, go there then go to the cashier. They waived the fines as we were first timers so all up 4,750 pesos in total. They don't deliver our rate notices, it's up to the property owner to front up Nov/Dec and if you go then to pay you get a 20% discount, very generous so that would make our rates under PHP 4K at the end of the year. I suppose that's why we still have a gravel road as mentioned in another post.
While there we overheard a lady arguing over PHP 47K in fines on top of 10 years of rates unpaid, her excuse, like ours was she never received any rate notices so she shouldn't have to pay the fine, the clerk very quickly pointed out to her that she did come in to pay her rates in 2007 and 2008 and their system hasn't changed, at least she tried.

Cheers, Steve.

Not bad for beachfront property, Steve. Well done!