HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES
HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES It all started when a land developer company purchase a piece of land somewhere within or near the urban areas and develop it by constructing concrete fence and roads, install streetlights, build water system, provision for utilities like electricity, internet, and cable television. The developer subdivides the land to lot sizes affordable to average-income employees and build row or single-detached houses. Parallel to this, a group of ever-active self-declared “ real-estate brokers ” begin selling these properties before the groundbreaking is made. Few months later, new homeowners start migrating to their dreamed-houses and meet for the first time their totally-stranger but lifetime-to-be neighbors. A typical modern Filipino community is born. As the community gradually grows, the land developer starts to turn over the management to the homeowners by urging them to