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I am old enough to know the old rules and the new rules but I am asking here about practicality.

Say I have a beloved older car which I get into Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos or a border country etc.

What are the immediate issues and what are the medium and longer term issues and what are the potential options.

Please, don't clog this up with 999 posts of "cannot be done" or similar. I know the 99%, I'm looking for the 1%.

Just remember that "your" lawyer is not "your" lawyer, they are thieves working an angle for themselves. 1 in 100 is half decent.

99/100 agents are unscrupulous. They are working their own angle with fake buyers and so forth.

Give David Gray a call at East Coast Real Estate. Not the cheapest but honest Scotsman as many will vouch for.

https://www.thaiproperty.com/

https://www.facebook.com/eastcoastrealestate

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010331474516

Amateur landlords

You are all missing the point.

Currently, Thailand considers income earned over 12 months ago as capital and capital is not taxed.

Thus, if you can earn income tax free at source and then spend income earned 13 months ago, you legally have no tax to pay.

However, if Thailand changes their interpretation of capital or requires income earned anywhere to be taxed in the year it is earned, you would technically have to declare your income and suffer Thai taxation.

In reality, if you are paid into Hong Kong and transfer capital, no-one is ever going to ask you where the money came from because it is none of their business.

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Is there anybody out there who thinks Thaksin would come back if he would go to jail?

No.

Of course he isn't going to go to jail.

At worst it will be at some mansion in Bangkok or Chiang Mai.

In reality, this is only until a new story can be spun about how he is innocent and a free man.

Visa approved.

Back and forth a bit on email.

They wanted the kid's passport put in multiple sections and they couldn't understand that the kid might actually be in the UK with me already but hey ho.

Uploaded bank statements but they wanted another one showing £1000+ for a single entry (original was £50k+ uploaded so no idea why they wanted another one).

You get the feeling like you do in all Thai administration scenarios, that they don't really know what they are doing but that they all want someone else to say it is ok or to sign it off as they don't want any responsibility.

My advice is to apply well ahead of their 15 days suggestion, at least a month I'd say.

On 5/24/2023 at 5:09 AM, jimn said:

Listen to you Mr Angry. @BritTim always gives sound advice. What he has suggested is not an illegal dodge. Are you sure the problem is not with you? Have you applied on the correct visa section? These online applications are generic and not all sections are applicable. A simple explaination or an upload of a relevant document will suffice. Your rant and calling the form stupid just shows what type of person you are and why you are no longer married. Chill out or you will have a heart attack.

Yeah, sound advice to overstay !

"Departing with a four-day overstay will mean a 2,000 baht fine (500 baht per day) and an overstay on your immigration history which, while not a big immediate problem, could be held against you in the future."

I know this forum is the home of westerners who want to be "more Thai than the Thais" but why are they so grovelling and loving of the fraud that Thai people inflict on nearly every westerner in every occasion where compensation is due ?

We all know this is never Bt30,000 or anywhere near that amount. It might be Bt1000 or maybe Bt3000 but the "demand" is at least 10 times the true cost.

So like the cowardly white knighting of someone in the hope of gaining favour from a Thai woman, what is really in it for these people who think it is fine for a Thai to demand 10, 20 or 50 times the true compensation ?

15 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I understand people who have no money, no other options, they always make excuses not to buy.

 

I live in a gated community, close to town. I bought my first house 2001, second house a couple of years later, me and my family have been living in this house ever since (renting out the first house). 

I've calculated, rents and renovations etc. I'm way ahead, house price has increased, so have rents over the last 2 decades.

 

I'd hate to think how many times me and my family would have had to relocate over the many years (landlord issues etc.) plus I've got the house exactly how I want it. 

They are the same people who don't have a car and despite 30+ years of car ownership back home, they say it is not necessary and a frigging scooter is enough, until they have an accident, for which they have no insurance.

They always have an excuse to hide the fact that they shouldn't be an "expat" as they don't have enough money.

 

I think more poignant is the high percentage of western men who father a child and then run away and fail to provide. Cowards.

Then you have the Thai men who also leave their offspring. Cowards.

Finally you have the western men who father children in Thailand in their later life but have no resources to send their kids to schools and universities which would give them the opportunity to break out of Thailand and earn a living on a world scale. Condemning your kids to a life as a Luk krueng version of Somchai the local XYZ is beyond comprehension and selfish beyond extreme.

3 hours ago, UKresonant said:

I've not got to the application yet still getting a few supporting docs together. Will register on the e system shortly, and have a look soon.

 

If your going on the basis of your Daughter for the Visa, just get her to write a note and copy her Thai passport on the same page perhaps, and upload that perhaps? 

 

Once registered I'll maybe spot something once I'm in, I also don't wish to have to go to an immigration office!  Just waiting on the posty hopefully with the second last thing I need for the supporting docs.. 

 

Are you flying soon or waiting on the school holidays like us.  ????

Daughter finishes school mid June so flying for the whole summer.

1 hour 35 minutes on hold this morning to the UK Embassy without getting through. Another 37 minutes and counting as I write now. Absolute joke.

I design online forms and information gathering questions and you need to be so careful not to create a loop from which there is no way back, forward or out and this is exactly what their online system has done.

I can prepare anything except the stupid letter they list as mandatory. Perhaps a picture of a Ouija board might suffice ?

9 hours ago, UKresonant said:

Question "9" is not on the list I got back from an e-mail enquiry at the start of May. I'm also traveling with teenage Thai National (son)

.......

 

If your sure it is not required, what we do on one of the tourist visa questions, (for single entry) is to type out "Not thought required for the visa requested" make that into a .jpg image, upload it, and it let's you proceed. The templates for the supporting docs, seems to be for a group of visas rather being exactly specific to the one selected perhaps.

This is not a list, it is a mandatory question on their website.

It is required as it is mandatory but in the way they ask it, there is no way to answer it.

25 minutes ago, BritTim said:

Departing with a four-day overstay will mean a 2,000 baht fine (500 baht per day) and an overstay on your immigration history which, while not a big immediate problem, could be held against you in the future.

 

You do have the option of applying for a second extension of your visa exempt entry (paying 1,900 baht) which will be denied, but you are given seven days to leave the country. That can be useful, on occasion, but there ought to be better alternatives with forward planning.

Absolutely shocking "advice".

Was I not clear, that the hurdle is Q 9 on the stupid online system and not looking for an illegal dodge ?

9 minutes ago, stubuzz said:

I recently did a 90 day single entry based on marriage and the financial requirement was listed as 10,000.

Yes, so when you got your version of question 9 which needs to be completed i.e. mandatory, you could have put the letter from your spouse.

My question is not about financial requirements.

3 hours ago, Soondae said:

 my simple take on your issue is to come in on a tourist 30 day, extend it for another 30 days, then you have the grace period of 7 days in both instances, ie. apply for 30 day extension 1 at say 34 days then get your extension. show up at airport for departure and there should be no issue.

Did you not read that I don't want a tourist visa or visa waivers or extensions ?

I'm not married to a Thai anymore but I want to visit for 68 days which means I need a visa and before you ask, I would rather simply not have to extend a tourist visa.

There is a non immigrant visa option which suits my purpose but one of the questions that must be answered or you cannot submit is this:

9 . The letter from your spouse indicated that you both are still married and he/she acknowledges of your visit.

But there is no spouse and I am not married.

So I went back and fiddled with the marriage options but as the form was designed by an illiterate clown and never tested, it assumes everyone applying for a non immigrant visa is married to a Thai.

I'm travelling with my teenage daughter, which satisfies the visa requirements but I cannot get past this stupid question.

Any ideas ?

Who answered the question "did you pack your bag yourself ?"

The BiB ?

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I lost a good friend when I was younger.

He started to try cannabis, said it was just like a cigarette.

Then it wasn't enough, so he tried other substances.

Then they weren't enough, when at university he got in with an older crowd.

Lets just say three years later he was on heroin and eventually died.

I'm not saying ban cannabis, but it's use and availability has to be controlled.

Too many young people get on it for a joke, and then find they can't handle it.

You will never get get any sense from a pothead or wannabee pothead as from the very first spliff they are brainwashed by the peddlers of the drug that it is:

a) not addictive

b) far less harmful than alcohol

Yet go see anyone in the west who has a serious "dangerous" drug problem and almost all have started on weed.

It isn't even the drug performance that is the issue but simply that those supplying weed either also supply "hard" drugs or they know people that do and the user may very well not try hard drugs if they didn't know where to get them. It is their use of weed which opens that Pandora's box.

Of course, in Thailand, it is printing money season, which will blow up as you cannot have every 3rd shop as a drug den.

Just like at university, I don't mind those who want some weed and sure I've tried it but I also lived in a drug house without partaking and every day was wasted on weed or the pursuit of weed, to the detriment or absence of work and weekends were a series of uppers, then ecstasy, LSD perhaps, then downers and of course, constant weed with some strengths being a million miles away from the "not addictive" and "safer than booze". All this started from beautiful, safe, non harmful, non addictive pot.

Neither of these places has a functioning website with details and they use gmail accounts.

Weird for a business.

1 hour ago, OneZero said:

SkyPark Jomtien near intersection Tappraya & Jomtien 2nd Rd.  Short walk to Baht bus route on Tappraya.

 

skypark gym jomtien - Google Search

 

Is this it ?

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

❌ Incorrect. In Pattaya for example there definitely can be a difference in price, demand for foreign quota is greater than thai quota, if foreign quota isn't full then there should be no difference in price, but sometimes still is

Equally, to reverse the argument as quoted by some who say there is no difference, if the prices are the same then it could means there is a lack of demand, which is not good for a new development.

If demand is coming solely from Thais and thus no pressure on the potential foreign quota then who is going to be your next buyer as Thais are hugely reluctant to purchase condos on the resale market ?

I know a property can be moved from the Thai quota to the non Thai quota with certain agreements in place and the total sqm not being exceeded but I would never rely on that, though I would check from time to time if I thought I could move a property across as it would be more valuable.

1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:

Is the purchase as a means to give your daughter future financial benefit or accommodation. If it’s about investment for her future I’d stay away from real estate in Thailand. Put some cash/gold etc in an account in her name with a maturation date. Her mother or even your daughter does not need to know. 

Honestly, you would park cash in an account as an "investment" ? You'd see the value eaten alive by inflation.

I look at some Thai properties as simply yield to redemption and assume little or no forward value to the asset. If you can get enough of a yield then values are largely meaningless.