Mr. Guillermo Choa’s PRO-FRIENDS should not be part of Very Bad Companies

A college friend working abroad forwarded a link to Very Bad Companies to me in facebook regarding PRO-FRIENDS and the company chairman Guillermo Choa. I felt so bad given I am currently paying hard earned money for a house with them. My immediate action was to call an aunt who used to work for the Mr. Guillermo Choa before she and her family migrated abroad about 3 years ago.

The picture she painted regarding sir Gerry, as she still fondly calls him, is a far cry from the image of the man being depicted on line. She told me that she began working for PRO-FRIENDS in 2002 about 3 years after the company was established. She said that sir Gerry is a humble, soft-spoken man who goes to work before 7 am and that he is a very hands on boss. She said Mr. Guillermo Choa would greet each of them by their 1^st name and even know the names of each of their child, he is the type of boss who will text you at 6:30 am on your birthday. That if not for her husband’s decision of migrating she would still be working for the man.

My aunt said that back in her day Mr. Choa was part of each team for each project. He would be there from the beginning, they started with small villages and before my aunt left she was part of the Lancaster New City planning. She said Mr. Choa shared with her team the vision for Lancaster New City and she recounts this to me with so much pride. I informed her that as per my last visit a building  for the Suntech Ipark has already been erected called Lancaster Square, that the school inside now has two buildings. She said that the Ipark will be the 1^st IT park, BPO hub in Cavite and that it is designed to accommodate 11 thousand seats.

Hearing all this, I started to wonder about the accuracy of the all the things I have read on-line. How could someone so loved by his employee, someone with a vision so grand (and note that the land is already there and it has been and still continuously being developed) in such a bad light? My aunt also told me that PRO-FRIENDS now has at least 15 finished projects with more than 40 thousand houses built and turned over to residents. She said she is aware of the circulating stories and that she hopes some of the happy residents will share their stories to even out what’s found on-line.

I hope that whoever those people posting negative stories are, I wish they never become my neighbors. To those like me who dreams of owning a house and works hard for it, do not despair, I hope this blog gives you another side of the story.