An overseas Filipino worker in Lebanon is fighting to recover the P270,000 she paid for a housing unit in Lapu-Lapu City after the developer declared it forfeited.
Speaking to SunStar Cebu on August 14, 2025, single mother Rechel Igoy said she had been paying P10,000 monthly for 27 months toward the equity of a P4.9 million unit at Graceland Solar Bloc, developed by Greentech Land Development Corp. (GLDC). Her sister made the payments directly to the company while Igoy was working abroad.
Igoy said she was shocked to receive a letter on July 25 informing her the unit had been forfeited due to missing bank documents. “I trusted the agent because we went to high school together. I was willing to make the payments even if my family had to eat fermented fish and salted dried fish,” she said in Cebuano.
She claimed that GLDC has not replied to her inquiries for three weeks and has been slow in providing official receipts for the payments she made. The developer, in a message to SunStar Cebu, said the matter has been referred to its legal department and that it will coordinate with authorities, including the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development. GLDC maintained that the client or her representative was aware of the process before signing the contract.
Igoy said she is asking for a full refund to cover urgent family needs, including her children’s tuition, but was only offered a 50 percent refund. She has sought help from the Lapu-Lapu City Government to recover her money.
