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If your close to town it will appeal to both Thai and foreigners. Out toward the mountains or Pranburi forget it. Price is also relevant, The properties not saleable are the standard 3 bed pool villas at 5 mil and above any owner of these must be realistic there just isn't a market for them so its land value only,

do you think the houses within soi's 2 - 110 or so, and within a couple of km of the railway tracks will retain their value, if they are of decent build and within a nice neighbourhood etc??

do you think the values will even increase in the medium term, as thailand becomes more prosperous??

Soon Tree at the bottom of the soi beside burger king is nice...... about 700B at other times of year...... not sure on high season..... clean and nicely run, and central

....... every agent in town for four years. Only one of the agents I used brought customers around. Most of them were useless. I had a well used and popular agent in town explain to me only 5-10% of the second hand homes on the market move every year. We did finally get one serious offer but it was from a lady from BKK whom just tried to low ball us................

Gee that sounds tough Hobiecat!!

i read the locals are not keen on second hand houses, but four years is a long time!!!! is your in a farang area, or a thai area??

we are the third owners of our 8 year old house, so from what you are saying it may be very difficult to sell when the time comes. have you heard your story repeated across much of hua hin, may i ask??

have other people found this problem too??

sure she was breaking he law.... but this is what the public do sometimes.....

you would expect this.......

but the cops being bent.... this is what you would hope wasn't happening......

i bought a car over a year ago, from a farang in hua hin, for 50,000B also

it is a mitsubishi lancer / champ and now has over 250,000km on the clock

i have never, touch wood, had any problems at all with it (apart from me mate taking the mickey out of me, for driving an old car)

probably the best 50K i have spent in thailand..... been all over in it

dont pay the tips.... it makes us non tippers look bad

my mate was fishing here today, and was told that they are putting the prices up

he was told the prices will be going up from 50B an hour on the small lake, to 600B a day

and prices on the specimen lake, will rise from 800B a day, to 1600B a day

also, he was told that the fishing will be limited to 9 am - 6 am

i hope this isnt true..... the Lodge is a great little fishing venue, but for a local like me who likes to pop down in the evening for a few hours, 600B is just too expensive

yea i googled it, and a thread on huahinforum from back in 2008 was asking for tool hire, and everybody said there was not one around back then

i would have thought there would be a good place for second hand tools though, as many items seem to get reconditioned here..... i saw somewhere at the tuesday market on canal road, but he didnt have any palm sanders......

I would also be interested in a second hand petrol lawn mower if i could find such a shop..... there is one on Pala U road, just after G supermarket, but he hasnt had much stock in the last few times i have visited.....

hey guys.... i am attempting a bit of DIY around the house, and need a palm sander for just a day or two......

i dont really want to buy a new one, so was wondering, if anyone knew of a tool hire place within the hua hin area, or even a second hand tool shop?

my mate got a new pcx 150 in hua hin other day, with insurance and tax etc it was 76,000b

if you can speak some thai, and you are happy to talk to the police, you could ask them...... our car was towed away from the bottom of soi 70, and that is the scrapyard they took the car to until i paid the parking fine

the police box at the corner of soi 55 / opposite soi 70 was where they informed me my car was, so you could ask them where he's relocated to

These lot make ours look like angels!!

http://phukettuktuks.com/

scary article on tuk tuk drivers.......

(if link is not allowed it is - phuket tuk tuks dot com)

i am gonna have to stop doing keyboard short cut smileys.... my expressions are way off!!

thanks lomatopo..... i went to the DTAC shop and they said i couldnt swap my existing sim to the new 2499 promotion sim

but after what you posted above, i signed up on the dtac site, and sure enough i could swap my promotion across

so now all texts and mins are 0.99B, and if they are to a dtac phone, they are 0.24B..... great stuff )

thanks guys.....

i just did a google search and found here what looks like a great deal

calls 0.99b / min

calls to dtac 0.24b / min

texts 0.99b

texts to dtac 0.24b

the mrs is on dtac so this looks like a great deal )

http://www.dtac.co.th/en/prepaid/products/newsim2499.html

a lot cheaper than the 3.5b / min & 3.5b / text that i am paying with my present True sim

Hey guys...... what companies are offering the cheapest deals for minutes and texts at the minute?

i found a DTAC offer the other day, and it costs 49B for 42 days (weird length of time i know) and this makes all calls to all networks 1B / Min...

i know my mrs gets DTAC > DTAC for 0.25 B / min, but i think this is a special sim, and the offer was not available when i checked in the DTAC shop the other day apparently

true move seems to be about 3.5 B a min with my SIM..... so a lot more expensive, but this SIM does allow me to call UK landlines for 1.5B a min, so is great for that

i tried a one2call sim the other day, but that too seemed to be knocking off my credit at about 3.5B / min

what company is the cheapest for thai mobile to thai mobiles?

also, who does the best deals for data??

either get tourist police to help you regarding the theft of your cash via the ATM (see how sympathetic they are, and are they prepared to assist you.... my experience with them has been positive so far).......

or call up a couple of mates and get them to help you throw him out, whilst changing the locks and telling security they cannot come back to the building

either way mate, good luck to ya

i googled it...... it is actually nearly 40% lower than the uk.......

and if what Psych01 is correct, it will be even lower for people on a one year (does that include international?) licence

http://www.drinkdriving.org/worldwide_drink_driving_limits.php

UK = 0.08

Thailand = 0.05

so if the family name is european, the fail level is very low??

i should have guessed really

what is the fail level here in thailand meant to be? and how many beers does this equate to?

i know in the UK it is 35mg of alcohol / litre of breath, or something like that..... which equates to about 2 regular strength beers

what is the fail limit here guys??

there is also a bus company running from the bottom floor of the airport, right next to the food court. ticket 130 baht...... about 7 buses a day..... i got it last week....... stops at jomtiem and will drop u near patts bus station also....... also a bus going to hua hin from there, which i never knew about (we paid 1500B for a taxi just a couple of weeks earlier)

they set the bar a bit high there didnt they with the number of voters required?! they required 300 million to vote before they would consider it a valid vote...!! and just over 1/2 a million did

yet about 90% of those who voted were opposing

why do facebook think 30%, of what are possibly mainly light users of facebook, would show interest in this?

the classified sections on this website, plus bahtsold are quite good.... and as said above, worth getting a hotel room for a few days and having a good nose around

will learn a lot on the ground, having a look for yourself, rather than leaving it all to an agent

there's no flies on steve coleman then hey?

my best mate was nicked on the island back in 1997 when i was with him, with 0.55g

he was on 50,000B bail and spent three weeks on bail before going to the court in surat thani on the night boat, handcuffed to a BIB

the lawyer who had previously offered to get him off all charges for the full 50k was waiting at the port and offered to get him off for 25k

he still had to go to court, but didnt get deported and no stamp in his passport

the lawyer had great fun handing out his 500B bills to whomever he came acrossk

u will be fine mate, but it may cost ya 20K i reckon