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Every about 30 minutes? Every single day? From early morning till late?

See clause 6 of this screenshot from a friends condo-regulations as announced by the management

Does help 0%. Not at all. Nothing smells as disgusting as an addicts smoke from cigarettes. Check your condo, many update their regulations and enforce the law which prohibits smoking on balconies in Thailand.

I know the law in and out - but with the majority of Thai co-owners keeping quiet in case of criminal corruption there is no way. Your way works in a ideal world. Not in Thailand. Good for you you do not have a bad experience yet....

Actually for about a year or so smoking on condo-balconies is illegal... Smart committees already updated their condo-rules...

The condo act is not worth a thing since no punishments come along for a management not obeying its clauses. The land department needs ages (if they respond at all) and can not do anything since no punishments for any wrongdoing of a management company are in place. Going to court? Waste of time, judges here are far away from using common sense or from (scientific) evidence. They believe any <deleted> a management company would tell them, even if they would tell: 1 and 1 = 3. Farang says it should be 2. But since a Thai management company says it is 3 it must be 3. End of story.

NO farang in the committee? Run. In most cases Thais are not able to manage a building. They are lazy and do what they think is right, but their thinking is far away from laws and science....

I see, yes. Yet daily rent out is no problem in many condos despite being illegal. So I am still not entirely convinced... Anyway thx for your input ????

Now, who would challenge a lawyer, spending X00,000 Baht and years in court to prove him doing the wrong thing?

Register and operate an office in the residential zone of a condominium? Is it legal or restricted? Logically it should not be legal, but I am not sure...

Most likely both at the same time. If my online business keeps going as it does right now I am out of here next year. Found a country where they want to see 6000 US$ in a bank account at the time of the application for yearly extension of stay. Thats it. Even Thai wife is welcome. No need to be married to a national or to work or to purchase a luxury visa, no 90 day reports and slightly higher education of the population...

I found the app just by searching for immmigration thailand 90, something should appear in the results then...

thx for your patience. Yes, tripple checked. Of course, after trying many times I know my arrival card number so much that I dream about it... I tried entering a wrong arrival card number and then it gives me exactly the information it should give: that the arrival card number is wrong. Trying again with the correct ACN give the same old error message without a hint about what is wrong (I design websites, am coding a bit, I applied to a gazillion online whatever subscriptions and services, so as the immigration thing is the only thing that does NOT work I would say that most likely the error is not on my side...

No passport change within this time...

The app for Android gives me a failure message as well. Initial registration works well but then for the actual process: no success. I tried to insert different versions of information after the first failure but no matter what: It does not work... Finally I have to print out everything and try the very bad mail in service, start praying that this time they can handle everything within 6 or 7 weeks.

even using the good old Internet Explorer delivers the same result. What could one do wrong on the first page to get the well known message? Will try on a smartphone later as a last resort, then I do the mail thing again. Sure, can go in person, but waste half a day to get there and back? For again and again and again stating that I still live in the same address?

Which browser did you use? At what time of the day did you do it? If it works for some and does not for others there must be a reason. But then, this is Thailand, so who knows what happens on server side...

The last was my first 90 day report and as required I did it by mail. They received and stamped it just 2 days after I sent it out but needed 30 days to hand it over to the post office, so in addition (and As required by law) I went there in person just to receive a copy of the receipt from immigration. So since this is the second time it should be possible to get the online registration done - at least this is what I read and thought.

I try 90 day Online registratin - this is the message I got after step 1, independent from the browser (tried firefox and chrome). It is due on November 10, so it should be possible already, right?

Interesting, so what about cameras in residential floors of a condo where residents protested against yet were told it is legal to record floor activity. In general, no one enters our condominium gives consent of being recorded at all times in every corner...

thats the answer I want to hear but evidence is a bit thin. Yet in most countries in the (western) world you can record just anything, only publishing is regulated. Same information (anything can be recorded in public) I found for Singapore, just to name an example

Not simple at all. Only Farang cares, Thais are not interested in safety. Farang do not have 25% to vote current board out. Current board believes whatever management says...

Definitely they would. They are very talk active presenting themselves in the best light possible at all times, no matter how much audience. Not sure if we can convince the BMA again. They told us that some management officials went to the BMA after their visit complaining about the visit since the building is in perfect condition (that was before the BMA issued the report, management thought by complaining they can avoid a report). But it seems to me that BMA has the right to inspect but no further rights to force a management to get active.

We have many safety issues, potential buyers are not blind. Now, as the management always claimed: "Farang lies, everything perfect", we brought in the responsible section of the BMA. They not only confirmed all our findings but found even more issues. We have that in writing. After the visit the management claims that everything is perfect, they do not care. And the "few" things that are not ok are on the way to be fixed. Yet, 15 months after the BMA visit, 0% progress... I am pretty sure that we can go to court suing them (yes I know expensive, thats not the subject). But the more proof I have, including statements, the better, right? Non existing water hoses for example. They claim it is just my opinion that there is no water hose in the fire cabinet. Yet, I am not blind... No one would believe they make these statements if not recorded...

So given that, as it seems, any juristic person can record just anything the other party should have the same right, right? Or is there somewhere a law that gives companies special rights?