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Which works perfect in evening and night, when the island needs a lot of electricity...

Probably, just like the users of the airport instead of taxpayers... For many years the Samui paid for the mainland infrastructure in Surat Thani province, where the majority of voters are, while the tax-money came from Samui, so if the island finally gets something back, it might be fair...

Many Thai companies use servers in Singapore – when it happens that ASEAN NOW is down, the service provider says that my computer works, the network and servers in Singapore works, but the ASEAN NOW-site has a problem (could be reboot, or overloaded, or whatever). There are numerous hosting providers in Singapore with everything from a single web-hotel to virtual servers or real servers, or even parking your own physical server. You can for example try Contabo – "German quality with global availability" – link HERE. I've used the Munich serverpark for a number of years since the company's early days, today Contabo has datacenters worldwide...

It's depending of your immigration office. At some offices – probably most of them – the 90 date begins with first extension of stay and continue counting 90 days from last report; or 90 days from last entry stamp. Other offices resets the 90-days count with the annual extension of stay. In that case you should have a new slip stapled in your passport with the date for next 90 day address-report. When re-enter from abroad the 90-day report is reset to re-enter date. The immigration office I use is among this category...????

Cash money is becoming less attractive, high expenses to sit on them; at least one European currency is even difficult send back to the country of origin due to whitewashing fear, so the present exchange rate in Thailand to buy this currency in cash is between 50% of official rate and 0, like in "zero"...

This sound like a fair deal... "Somsak added that his company is willing to take care of Jindarat in every way but not at more than what she paid for the vehicle." –While this might be less fair after two years... "However she wants his company to give her a new Next-Generation Ranger pickup truck that costs more than the one she had purchased." (Quotes from the article)

It's is the shareholders that vote the director(s) at a general meeting. Who is going to inherit your shares, and thereby votes at a general meeting..? A last will is certainly worth considering, especially if not married to your Thai lady. It's actually very simple to make a last will. You can even handwrite it in simple language and go to the Amphur office and sign it - the office will work as notary office – and you can even put the will on file there. Check in advance if you also need to bring a witness or two yourself. A company can have more than one director (board member), so your Thai lady can also be a director. The general meeting can decide the power of the directors, i.e. two directors shall sign together for full power, or for example limit a director so he/she cannot buy or sell property. You will need a general meeting report and have the director(s) and eventual limitations registered. ????

You can use a standrad lease agreement instead, it works well and does not have any weird clauses. The benefit is, that it can be transferred to third party, which might be a good life-insurance, when using somebody else's land...

I din't understand, what you mean. An (adult) person with a name in a house book, can have electric supply form PEA. As I said before, my girlfriend got PEA-electricity for my house – yes, I'm the house-owner – on her house book registration at her parents home about 1,000 kilometers up north. During building construction we had a temporary one-phase 16A PEA-supply at a higher unit rate. I used my girlfriend to register, permanent supply, instead of waiting for house book to be issued. You should ask your local PEA if that is possible, where you live...????

A registered lease/rent for 3 to 30 years gives you same servitude protection as a registered usufruct; both are servitudes written on the back of the title deeds in the land office. Tax at the land office is 1,1% – 1% registration tax plus 0.1% stamps of the total agreed lease sum – which for a 30 year lease can sum up to a bit. Furthermore, the landlord has to pay rental income tax. Tax is often a reason to make only 3-years rentals – many for example offers 3x3 years – as it's not registered, presuming that a landlord might avoid to pay any tax. However, you have no legal protection on more than one rental period up to three years, the additional period will be void if you try to claim your rights in a legal way, as any rent period longer than 3 years has to be registered to be legal. I.e., anything agreed beyond the legal terms might not be worth the recycling-value of the contract-paper. A usufruct is cheap to make – costs about 100 baht in fee plus the pre-printed contract from a paper shop – so no tax question, if no additional payment change hands. Usufruct can run either up to 30 years or for life. It cannot be transferred to any other person, which means that when the usufruct holder dies, the agreement is terminated, no matter if a period is stated. I'm sad to mention it, but if – in worst case scenario – the land change for example owner, and the new owner has other plans for the use of the land, a suddently death of a usufruct holder might be a solution; in case that other unpleasant things don't make the holder of the usufruct to wish to leave and terminate the agreement. In short terms: One shall always be worth more alive than dead in Thailand. There are few cases where a land office deny to register a usufruct to a foreigner.

Usufruct can last for 30 years or for your life; it's a minor fee to register and it's often easily done. When registering a lease agreement, which can be from 3 year and up to 30 years, you need to pay tax for the full registered period. A lease can include transfer to third party – i.e., you can sell a remaining period of an lease agreement – or be inherited, while an usufruct cannot be transferred or inherited. Check that title deed is nor sor see – i.e. nor sor 4 or "Chanute" title – for full ownership. In both cases – usufract or lease – be aware of the contracts between husband and wife can be declared void, so having a servitude on land owned by a spouse, is not a solid guarantee of financial protection. Furthermore, when looking at worst case scenario, in my view it important that being worth more alive than dead. A minor can own land, but under guardian; so the land can normally not be mortgaged, sold or transferred as long as the owner is minor. When I registered for electric before I had a house book, I could register in my girlfriends name using her house book-registration, even it was an address in another province about 1,000 kilometers away. A foreigner can own a house, but not the land under the house. So if you intend to build something on "your" land, you shall have a superficies servitude. To prove that you are owner, you shall have architect drawings with your name; building permission issued to your name (here you need the superficies or other similar permission from the landowner); building constructor contract(s) in your name; any money transfers from your bank account or cash receipts with your name on it. These documents are your proof of ownership – the building can then be sold or transferred separated from the land and register to a new owner. Being owner of a building with a house book, you can have electric connection. My recommendation: Put the land in your child's name with you as guardian...????

That's correct. However, for electric bill you can get a temporary meter on a higher rate – I had that during my house-construction – until you have a house with a house book. I don't know about public water.

Little lower ferry fares due to diesel price-cut between Donsak and Phangan and Samui...

It seems to have changed and become more easy to get a Yellow House Book now, from what I understood in later posts. I needed to have my passport's name-page translated to Thai by an approved translator – it was several A4 pages of which one was a photo copy of my passport, another the translation, and then additional 5-6 pages with the translator's qualifications and diploms with the correct authorized rubber stamps; and of course copy of his ID-card. It costed me 5,000 baht. I needed to bring two witnesses that knew me well. At least one had to be a neighbour and one had to be government employed; could of course be a government employed neighbour. So I got my next door neighbour and the local poo yai ban – head of village, who was, and still is, an important person on Samui and counted as a "government employed" – to show up in the tessa ban-office. I used my girlfriend as translator at the quite intensive interview about why I wished to settle in Thailand, my religion, and many other questions. Later I could apply for a pink ID card, but by that time you needed to bring a recommendation letter also from the tessa ban-office. Both Yellow House Book and pink ID-card have serve me well; worth the effort...????

At the moment I think it's still only Lomprayah catamaran ferries to their Maenam Pier; Seatran has to my knowledge not yet restarted their express boat...????

Be happy for that, then your Thai driver's license in accepted in some countries abroad... You managed to do it much easier than I did for my Yellow House Book on Samui – it was like applyring for permanent residency, except I didn't need the language test and sing the national hymn (the staff at the tessa ban-office shall be happy that I didn't sing)...

Poland is a member of EU and not known for killing political or other opponents, there must be something more to his story...

I have always been charged 500 baht for a residence certificate, I have never heard anybody saying it's free on Samui...????

You haven't been living on Koh Samui then...

Sounds fairly difficult at the moment, as cheaper bungalows many places now are 100% booked, and the owners will only rent out on daily rate instead of discount for longer term. 13k baht a month – I presume it's baht, you didn't write a currency, but $ and € will of course change your situation...???? – for what you ask for might be too low a budget on Samui right now... @Mac Mickmanus's kind offer might not be that bad, after all...????

You can select FTT to be shown on Thai bank-statement in Wise, before you transfer the money...

...with 44,000 baht in his pocket. It's quite amazing so much gold and money India tourists in Pattaya are wearing...

Seahorse car ferry from/to Chonburi starts again...

I regularly get deliveries from Lazada to Samui with Kerry, lastone about a week ago...????