The Cebu Retiree Write to us

A small team that lives on Cebu

One of us answers every message before you pay. Our partner on the ground does everything after that.

Our partner on Cebu, standing in a shop

Finds your apartment and meets your plane

On Cebu since July 2024, fluent in English. More than 120 people have settled on Cebu with our help.

Does the search and talks to the owners. Meets you at the airport, moves you in, then helps you through your first weeks.

The member of our team who answers your messages, in a café

Answers you before you pay

Lives on Cebu. Reads every email and WhatsApp message before you pay, and writes back within hours, not days.

Answers your questions about areas, money and visas, and sends the written agreement and the invoice.

How we work

We are a private arrival service. We find the apartment, talk to the owner on your side, and meet you on the ground.

We are paid once, by you. We take nothing from landlords on rentals.

One of us lost 10,000 pesos of a deposit to his first landlord here, over a rusted shower tap. That is why we started this.

Planning to buy, not rent? We help with that too.

How paying us works

  1. A written agreement first

    Before you pay anything, we email you a short agreement and you accept it by reply: the price, the steps, the refund rule, your budget and your must-haves.

  2. Then our invoice

    Every payment is made on our invoice, by Wise or bank transfer. A Scout Day is paid in full when you book; Soft Landing and Soft Landing Plus are paid in two halves.

  3. The second half on move-in day

    The second half is paid on the day you sign the lease and move in. If nothing suits you before you fly, most of the first half comes back: $800 of $1,000 on Soft Landing, $1,550 of $1,950 on Soft Landing Plus.

Ask us anything

Free to ask. We write back within hours, not days.

Real people in Cebu. We write back within hours, not days.