Comments on: Rent Control Law in the Philippines

By: Rosalyn Paraiso

Rosalyn Paraiso — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:21:06 +0000

Hi. please advise. I had been renting our apartment for six years already. I started paying at 4,500 monthly, but our landlady increased it to 5,000 last year. Then again, she decided to increase it to 6,000 this month.
Why such law being violated?how would we react to our rights? Our worry is, she might just force us to vacate if we insist about the law?We are currently residing at Pasay City.
thanks.

By: leah

leah — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:31:58 +0000

i have a question here folks…i hope someone could provide me an answer..are landlords/landladies allowed to lock the place ur renting or even lock the water meter, something like that, and force u to leave the place when in fact u have an agreement with them that u will pay them the whole rent when u find a new place to stay…and also where/to whom is the 3-month leeway apply? and if they’re not issuing a receipt are they considered illegal? also, theyre adding up our rent a 200 increase for water, is that possible?
thanks…:O)

By: dave

dave — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:40:20 +0000

i need information if my landlord is allowed to increase their rent even if they do not give me official receipt of my monthly rental???

By: Nerie Acebes

Nerie Acebes — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:44:48 +0000

Hi to everyone. I just want to ask when and in what newspaper or general circulation this Rent Control Law 2009 was published? I really need this for my research. Thank you so much in advance.

By: carlo

carlo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:41:54 +0000

is this implemented also in Cebu?

By: Arnel Lim

Arnel Lim — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:38:41 +0000

Hi to everyone, could you please comment on the below instances?
-The owner of our rented apartment charged us with an additional 10% from our rent of 9k.
-The increase was demanded this July, so us, together with 3 more tenants of the building decided to not agree with it since the New Rental Law was already released.
-The owner instead served us with a legal letter demanding us to vacate our rented units.
-Though no contract was active in our 41 years of living in the said unit, we have with us every monthly bill paid as rent.
-He wouldn’t follow the Rental Law and insisted that he is going to charge additional maintenance fee as payment for his 2 security guards, a total of 28k to be divided among all tenants of the 4 storey building, raising our monthly rent to 14k.
-We decided to move out as we felt we were being pressured to do so.
Question:–What can you comment on this? Also, what i know is that since we are forcibly pushed to go, though we are constantly good payers of the monthly rent, that we are allowed a free 1 month of rent so as to give us ample time to look for another residence.Please advise if this is correct, as the owner is insisting we pay for it. You’re fact based comments and suggestions will be very helpful. Thank you.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:32:14 +0000

@James Bandong, if the monthly rent for a property is more than P10,000, the Rent Control Act does not apply. It only applies to rented properties within Metro Manila whose rent is below P10,000 per month.

By: James Bandong

James Bandong — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:28:53 +0000

The Rent Control Act of 2009 is commonly violated. A 3BR with 2CR will cost 15,000.00-18,000.00Php, excluding water & electric. The worst is they dont issue the official receipt. What government agency to report? Please help. Thank you.

By: Dr. Lawrence Tinio

Dr. Lawrence Tinio — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:28:23 +0000

Laws like this gets passed every election time. It makes you wonder what the ulterior motives are?

By: Jay Castillo

Jay Castillo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:58:23 +0000

I agree with your concerns James, I just hope the implementing rules and regulations for the new law will address all the concerns you mentioned. May I also add that the new law does not cover rent-to-own agreements which offers greater flexibility to real estate investors. Besides, why rent when one can go for rent-to-own right?!
Jay Castillo´s latest blog ..Rent control law exempts rent-to-own agreements in the Philippines