[grandpainak]

When we were there last July and August we thought we had found the building lot of our dreams. It was just down the street from Rev. Robinson's house.
Like always we ran the papers by Attorney Maxino, and this is the email we got from him after we got back to Alaska. I thought that this might help some of you that are thinking of buying land there. And the seller swore up and down that this lot had a "Clean title".



Hi Jim and Marlene,

I evaluated the documents of the cantil-e land, and I also talked to the seller at my law office and discovered the following:

1. The title is still in the name of a dead person. The seller claims that he holds quitclaim documents from the other heirs of the deceased, but he is not sure if the proper taxes have been paid for the quitclaims and for the estate tax of the dead person. He could not present evidence of tax payments. When I asked him why he did not bother to process the title to his name, he said that it's too cumbersome and costly. I said that my client might not choose to assume the costs and the cumbersome procedure for him.

2. The title contains an unauthorized erasure. The entry on the face of the title, "married to (name)" was erased obviously an attempt to remove the name of the spouse. Although the land seems to be inherited land by the deceased titleholder and not conjugal, the erasure certainly affects the integrity of the title. the courts or the register of deeds do not blot out entries. Only the court can order any alteration of a land title by canceling the title and issuing a new, corrected one in its place.

3. The seller strikes me as a sincere man. The persons who accompanied him seemed like an unlicensed brokers, and they were the ones who sounded insistent and imposing.

I hope that I have clearly explained my position. I'm sorry if this is a let-down to you, but my duties as your lawyer come first. I have explained my position too to Ped who called me just now inquiring about the land. He said that the seller is his friend.

Jim and Marlene, as I have said, it is a buyer's market. It's so easy to find good buys. Let me know the preferred location. If you like cantil-e, I can ask my friends to start looking for clean titles.

Sincerely,

Mik


He is:

Mikhail L. Maxino
Attorney & Counselor at Law
4TH Floor
Plaza Maria Luisa Hotel
Legaspi Cor Sta. Catalina Sts.
Dumaguete City, 6200
Philippines

+6335 422 1536