A wise maneuvering by BFHI. Here we are again engulfed in the greediness of who else (BFHI) coupled with the evil designs of some of his cohorts. Our counterpart homeowners from Las Piñas should be enlightened on the ill effects of declaring the LPC portion as an open area. UBFHAI having no control and direct supervision of the aforesaid open area will make us vulnerable to all sort of inconveniences including criminality. Why did and what made MWSI consented to such an agreement with BFHI and LPC which is onerous? I don’t know. Was there no objection or opposition to the aforesaid agreement. It will be the same dog with a different collar for our Las Piñas side homeowners when the ROW takes effect. Cost wise, it does not differ from the Parañaque side homeowners. The biggest winner here is BFHI because it is the beneficiary of the toll on ROW while the losers are MWSI for shouldering the cost of the reticulation system and the whole BF homeowners for declaring the Las Piñas portion an open area. I wonder why there is no uniformity in the application of what was agreed in Congress considering that we are talking here of one subdivision.
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I’m not residing in the LPC side. But I’m just curious whether the Maynilad arrangement with the LPC area as an OPEN AREA would consequently and obviously also mean that the roads in those areas will necessarily be at the disposition of the LPC Mayor? BF-LPC residents may be getting a more affordable water deal but effectively forfeit their right to secure this portion of BF Homes with UBFHAI guards. LPC on the whole will definitely stand to benefit as BF roads can now be utilized to ease traffic especially along the Alabang-Zapote road.
I’m not residing in the LPC side. But I’m just curious whether the Maynilad arrangement with the LPC area as an OPEN AREA would consequently and obviously also mean that the roads in those areas will necessarily be at the disposition of the LPC Mayor? BF-LPC residents may be getting a more affordable water deal but effectively forfeit their right to secure this portion of BF Homes with UBFHAI guards. LPC on the whole will definitely stand to benefit as BF roads can now be utilized to ease traffic especially along the Alabang-Zapote road.
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Why we don’t agree with the proposed Las Piñas model.
1. The P10 per cu.m. or P300/month (average usage of 30 cu.m) will be charged as Right of Way (ROW) for the next 4 years on top of the water consumption. This ROW has been paid for when we bought our lots in BF.
The P10 per cu.m x 30 cu. m. x 48 months (or 4 years) x 4,000 Las Piñas residents is equals to P57.6 million which is almost the amount of the P60 million loss from their investments that BFHI is trying to recover from the residents. Maynilad initially offered to pay BFHI P10 million.
Why should the residents pay for BFHI P60 million losses when their business is water but they do not have water? Why take it from us? Everyone can afford the P10/cu.m. but we are fighting for the principle of fairness and justice and our basic right to have water.
2. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) which was drafted by BFHI and their allies for the Las Piñas residents is among (1) Las Piñas Homeowners, (2) BFH Inc. (Aguirre) and (3) Phil. Waterworks and Sewerage System (PWSS)?? The draft of the MOA also included blanks to charge additional fee for the next 4 years after the first 4 years and another blank to charge a certain amount thereafter.
How can we be sure that they will charge only for the first 4 years as BFHI is saying and not charge thereafter?
What we know is that BF water supplier is not PWSS but PWCC, Phil. Waterworks CC with expired franchise since 2003. How can they supply water with no franchise, no water and no money to pay Meralco?
3. Why pay BFHI for Right of Way, after they have deprived us of water for more than 2 decades? In fact in the past, they billed us even if it is only air that is coming out of our faucets? We were still hoping then.
4. Why is BFHI billing the residents the Right of Way for Maynilad to lay the pipes? Why haven’t they done so for Meralco, PLDT, cable companies and other service providers?
5. If it is legal to charge, why are other developers not charging their residents for the entry of Maynilad, ex. Tahanan and Ayala Alabang?
6. If the developers have the right to charge Right of Way, no prospective homeowner will be interested to buy lots. Specifically, we bought our lots in BF Homes because of the amenities, i.e. well-paved roads, water supply, electricity, church and commercial center.
7. The Right of Way issue is the recourse of BFHI to collect more money from the residents when BFHI actually has the obligation to turn over the roads and parks to the homeowners which they have not done so intentionally considering that BFHI has been our developer for almost 50 years.
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