kirkieb

Looking for any advise on sending freight back to Australia.  Golf Bag, Large removal boxes up to 25kg from Pattaya anyone got any ideas of affordable freight services door to door.

16 hours ago, Crossy said:

A plus is that if the cops take it away then the owner can't really complain, I'm sure they will "store" it for him somewhere suitably damp.

 

Owner doesnt want it but too lazy to move it. Its a piece of *&^%$ so we are organisng Thai style to remove it as we should have done in the beginning

Have an abandoned vehicle in our Village that has been there for two years. Owner tracked down, Police asked to help but to date the Vehicle sits in the middle of our Village that isnt Juristic.

How do we remove this eyesore? Has no Brakes I think and cant start buts its an old possibly few ton truck

Anyone know a Tow Truck Driver happy to Tow away?

In Nongprue

Free to Good home

Where to certify documents

Certified copies are copies authorised or stamped as being true copies of originals, by a person or agency recognised by the laws of the person’s home country. All personal documents such as Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Household Registration Book, Educational Qualifications, etc. must be certified by the relevant local district office as follow

Australian Visa Application Centre: Service Deliver Partner VFS Global.

Or

The Consular Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at the Australian Embassy in Bangkok can witness and authenticate signatures and provide certain other notarial services (fees apply for these services). (NO MENTION OF BEING ABLE TO PROVE AUTHENTICITY TO DOCUMENTS)

PLease note I have only recently done my retirement Visa and Even Though I asked them why they cant authenticate a letter from my Military Pension (Aus Government) If it was sent thru internal channels to them.  Their response was they dont have access to other Australian Government Agencies.

In Australia, copies may be certified by a Justice of the Peace, Commissioner for Declarations, or person before whom a statutory declaration may be made under the Statutory Declarations Act 1959.

Please note: Photocopies of certified copies are NOT acceptable.

Signing a Stat Dec is as mentioned by mamborobert a witnessing a signature.

The Stat Dec does not require you to say how much you earn.

It only needs to say I do solemnly swear that I satisfy all the requirements to obtain a Retirement Visa in accordance with Thailand Immigration Guidelines and requirements.

The rest is not the Role of a Notary

Good advise Blackcab, we have been dealing with top guy this year after last years top guy was relocated or retired. In the beginning top guy was very enthusiastic to assist but as we progressed through the requirements we received less and less response.  Will suggest your idea to our lawyer am first to believe in using the system we have and have followed it to the letter so far.  Will see where this goes cheers

Good advise Blackcab, we have been dealing with top guy this year after last years top guy was relocated or retired. In the beginning top guy was very enthusiastic to assist but as we progressed through the requirements we received less and less response.  Will suggest your idea to our lawyer am first to believe in using the system we have and have followed it to the letter so far.  Will see where this goes cheers

I love Thailand and have made it my home. I live in a Village that has been thwarted by a unscrupulous Developer that has dragged out the process of Transferring the Village to the Owners for more than 18 years.  This Developer has not only failed to assist in maintenance but has sold property believed to be Common Land including the Clubhouse and Swimming Pool forcing the Village to spend 100's of thousands of baht fighting for Servitude Rights.

Recently our Village obtained the Services of a Lawyer who has worked tirelessly to help our Village achieve something that has never happened in our history.  A Majority Vote in favour of Forming our own "Juristic Association" (Home Owners Group) in accordance with Thai Law.

Our Village has over 70% Thai Nationals owning property in our 161 property Village.

We all followed the Land Office Guidelines for the passed 12 months and now we have hit a snag that has repeated itself several times over the Village History.

That problem is the land Office now refuse to assist us any further and have claimed we are too hard to fix.

My question is this
'How does a Government Department, a role they claim on their web site to be

Powers and Duties of Department of Lands are as follows:

1. 1. Performing duties under the Land Code and Laws on Land Development, Condominium, Private Surveyor and Hiring of Immovable Property for Commercial and Industry Purpose and other related Laws.
   2. Performing duties in connection with legal affairs aspect under the Land Code and Laws on Land development, Condominium, Private Surveyor and Hiring of Immovable Property for Commercial and Industry Purpose and other related Laws.
   3. Formulating and coordinating Department of Lands’ plan in accordance with the government and ministry policies. Supervising, accelerating, monitoring and evaluating the performance of the affiliated bureaus, divisions and land offices within the Department and also implementing in the area of statistic, data processing and analyzing and evaluating any situation which related to Department of Lands functions.
   4. Developing systems, patterns and procedures concerned with land administration according to principles and procedures of Good Governance Programme.
   5. Managing land information system.
   6. Performing other activities which are duties of Department of Lands as prescribed by law or designated by Minister or Cabinet.

 Advise our legal representative that they are not willing to help in the transfer of the Village to the Owners because its too hard.  Also refusing to provide any documentation to support this to us.

Is the Big C involved again or is there something more sinister happening.

Love input from everyone as I am at my wits end trying to understand how an unscrupulous Developer who by all accounts can continue to trade with so many legitimate claims against them for breaches of contracts.

This Developer knows its a criminal offence not to supply a Sinking Fund and this same Developer has used those funds for various other projects and all with the knowledge of the Government Department who we have provided records to investigate.
Initially we were given support but now as the screws start to turn the pressure on Officials seems more important than the Mandate of the Office.

Having re read S1400 again it seems a little clearer. Is there a guide or schedule in the Code on where levels of compensation can be referenced

Section 1393. Unless otherwise provided in the act creating it, a servitude follows the dominant property when the latter is disposed of or made subject to other rights.

A servitude cannot be disposed of or made subject to other rights apart from the dominant property.

Seems to reflect the answer is No. ?

Cheers Ballbreaker

Not clear after reading if it can be relinquished for a fee seems a little grey

If Servitude is awarded in the Courts to a Village can it be relinquished for a fee if appropriate.

Situation has a third party owning property that was never included as Common Land and yet many years of using has provided that land the right to Servitude.

Can it be relinquished

Is there any laws outlining this?

What sort of compensation could someone expect to pay the owners with servitude rights by the owner who cant sell the property unless they do relinquish servitude.?

Any thoughts and facts would be greatly appreciated.

have some interesting points so far. The problem is the Common Land is all in Developers Name, The Pool and Clubhouse were sold to a private owner who we are still fighting after already winning Servitude years ago. Thai Law Protects third parties so we cant touch him but he can certainly try and get the property back by appealing in court. The Developer was interested in transferring the Village including the Utilities until he found out we knew all Villages must have a Sinking Fund. He has by all reports used that money and if its not where its supposed to be it becomes criminal activity with many years Jail. Since then he has done nothing to help.

The Village is 17 years old and this has been dragging on all these years and in the meantime has become run down and in bad need of some repairs.

Any suggestions anyone

Was this Chatkeow 2 on Soi Nernplabwan

No it isnt Chatkeow its Suwattana Gardens down the road

In our case the Developer refuses to maintain anything, he sold our club house and pool which now turns out were never common ground. That is another fight we are struggling to win but currently have servitude to use but is in such terrible condition believe we may loose in current appeal in Supreme Court due to condition.

Under Thai Law its illegal to collect fees and employ security, maintenance etc of grounds without a Juristic Person or Legal Entity as the Developer refuses to hand over the Village he still legally own's it all but Village has looked after itself for 15 years under the radar what a disgraceful situation. We try and establish a Juristic person but cant legally appear to be collecting votes or paying security or having our gardens cared for in the process. Seems many brown paper bags were swapped during the whole development and its a case of bad luck. They wonder why they loosing so much tourism, foreign investment and even faith by their own people in reform

Have been researching the Land Development Act for answers as to why the Developer of the Village I live in has his name still on the Utilities, has never attempted to transfer the common property and has even sold our swimming pool club house which was sold to us the owners under the assumption it was our village pool and yet was never going to be .

It was actually placed as a last minute thing as cheap as possible and been decaying ever since The unscrupulous Developer has now even started legal action to make us relinquish the servitude to use the pool after 15 years. After we were awarded Servitude a few years ago.

Several legal teams involved but outcome is now we cant convince the owners residents of the 134 houses in a 15 year old village fight to settle this once and for all and the Thai Law doesn't help.

Sinking funds spent illegally by developer

Failure to maintain anything in the village

Failure to transfer the Village after completing the village and he still owns the common areas we maintain and can sell them legally if he wants and we cant stop him.

And they say they are cracking down on corruption, this guy is still doing the same stuff with new unknown victims in many developments and it seems the brown paper bag under the desk is still a practice of many especially at the Land Office

I live in a Village developed 15 years ago and at the time was considered very High So it has never been transferred into a legal Juristic Person where the Committee could take necessary steps to retrieve from those unwilling to pay the fees. The village is slowly going down and has little to no maintenance and with the current laws making it almost impossible for us to make a Legal committee due to ignorance or a blase attitude and a developer we have been unable to locate so many years later. The Village is dying. I personally delivered by hand a voting slip to all 140 properties in the village asking if they wanted a juristic identity and we had an overwhelming response of about 70% in favour. Yet to this day we are unable to have a legally established committee because of the multitude of Chinese whispers by residents that our voting was unlawful or it was only valid for three months or whatever daily reason we seem to get from those opposing the need for change.

The reason these committees are necessary is to maintain a high level of security for all owners, common grounds kept to a high standard and maintenance of the village set to an acceptable standard so all owners can enjoy the village in its full glory. The other reason is to be able to lawfully place an encumbrance on a chanote of those properties not paying.

Its unlawful as I understand to restrict anyone access to their own property and making them open the gate is about as far as we can go on that. The use of swimming Pool etc is difficult to restrict owners without security 24 hrs a day policing such things. In the mean time these owners flaunt the fact they don't care and their selfish attitudes go unaddressed.

Why is it so hard to fix. Is it because our village has a few derelict properties that are owned by officials who intimidate? I'm at a loss but from talking to so many who live here it seems there is a case of how can we fix this once and for all so all owners/investors can see that things are being done to protect our investments is in place.

Operate a business and are forced to use Thai Post and its the most unreliable, unethical registered mail service I have ever had the displeasure to work with. They take your money for registered items then offer no solution when it goes missing. They offer no tracking unless you pay the exorbitant EMS rate of 650 Baht plus weight costs. They never respond to your emails or reply to phone calls. Have lost over 1 in 10 of a 1000 items sent in 12 months and to this day am still waiting for a response to my first enquiry made 12 months ago as to the items location or a refund.

Pigeon is more reliable

Have a dog owned by some wealthy foreigners who own a dog with a history of attacking other dogs without any reason. Dog has left his own area when other dogs are seen usually some distance away. Anyone know who we can contact that will ensure this dog who killed a smaller dog a few days ago and has apparently paid the local constabulary to look away. My concern is five other pets not street dogs have been attacked while walked on a leash. The owner have no concern if the dog bites a child and I want to know how can we remove the offending dog or atleast have it permanently muzzled

Ive been married legally for nearly 4 years of which we lived in Oz for 12 months and now I apply every year here and just got told my Marriage Visa is not acceptable, regardless the fact I have a mortgage paying off two cars and we still married and living together. No wonder only two steps removed from dragging their knuckles. Is bloody hard to know if I can live here or not via the legal channels how proud they must be

Does anyone know where I can find someone who may be either a retired jeweler or a silversmith looking for some part time work. They will need to make settings in silver and gold and be able to polish the jewelry to a high standard for selling overseas. Want someone reliable and honest and they will need to make ten pieces of each item per order. Can be a current jeweler but looking for wholesale prices not inflated tourist prices. Rings, Pendants and ear rings all with sapphires

Any help will be welcomed as have posted in classifieds to get some coverage

These are the only two left one girl the three colours and one black and white male

we have 4 male Border Collie Puppies still available from our recent litter of 8 and will be due to be weened and ready to go by 14 Jan 2014, selling them at 25,000 Baht each and will be inoculated and vet checked before collection.

Update to those interested and have an opinion, been breeding dogs many years and six weeks is fine if you ween them properly and ensure their development is right,, the price is expensive so the dogs only go to people who can look after them not someone who buys them and throws them away after they dig holes or chew a shoe. There are also a similar liter being sold in Chang Mai but that guy wants 45 000 Baht so all things considered we have 6 orders already so hopefully your posts will keep us honest and our dogs loved. Cheers

If Malaysia relaxes its laws on alcohol then maybe we all expats could go there. At Least we can own the spot where we going to pop off the twig.