motlau

There are a lot of IFS here

Firstly how things are with your wife --how long have you been with her do you trust her --really trust her!! ,does she always tell you the truth --is she in the pocket of her father or brothers or any of the rest of them, how much land do the family have and how many other loans ,a piece of their land has almost certainly been committed to support the loan does it have have the family house or anything if value on it

If you have any doubts and I mean any doubts it is 99 per cent certain you are being scammed

If after all this you decide to clear the loan and really its either clear it all or nothing you should insist to your wife and the family that the land certainly and land with the family house on be transferred to her name, no ifs no buts certain ,this means that they cannot go out and borrow from it again ,my experience with my wife's father is that he kept borrowing until he had no land and then tried an unsecured loan from a friend who expected my wife to clear it ,only when she refused point blank did the borrowing stop

As an aside she owns all her families land and when the brothers come round whining for their share she tells them that they can have their share after the parents die and after all the costs of the funerals have been deducted

By the way do not believe for one second that there is any legal redress, the village loan sharks are many and very influential and have the whole thing organised ,the absence of any banking easily available to poor people is why they are used ,borrowing from the bank involves endless all day visits to distant banks and being treated like sh*t by the staff ,the local moneylender is easy ,sign over the land as collateral and away you go ,it may not be right or fair but that's the way it is

From what I hear in Chaiyaphum the new "authorities" are clamping down on land deals involving non chanote land so go carefully people are being advised to keep their heads down

The real value criteria is location and this will dictate a price between 30000 and 300000 so no one can really advise without seeing and knowing the area

As an aside ,in the past Chaiyaphum has been considered remote and land almost worthless but the last 10 years has seen a real strengthening of land values and speculators from the south and Bangkok have been buying up there.

Uunless you are desperate for the money it should be a great investment over the next few years as more and more roads are constructed after all with land they are not making any more of it !

Location location location if land is by a road it can be 1/2/300000 per rai but identical land maybe 5 kms away in the middle of nowhere you would struggle to get 25000 per rai

Your most trustworthy source of advice is a wife/girlfriend who you can trust,however and one that is trying to get you to purchase from a family member doesn't pass that test

Keep picking on the small people, easy ,what about sorting out the big and influential ,sorry cant do that they are influential

Why don't the British authorities get a DNA sample from the parents of the two suspects --no need to involve the RTP I am surprised that the British media haven't done it themselves seeing the interest in the UK

Without the flood how would they justify spending more hundreds of millions of baht on "flood prevention", don't worry they know what they're doing more work more money--they've been improving the drainage for more than 20 years ,it takes real planning to make sure the floods keep reoccurring

Well done RTP, now that you have made Thailand a safe and law abiding Kingdom you can now devote time to sorting out all these foreigners who after all are at the bottom of everything that's bad happening in Thailand

Obtain the suspect DNA simple --making sure the UK police do it themselves

Its comical if it was not so tragic, whoever heard of illiterate murdering Burmese going out and buying condoms --why? simply the Asian semen (racially profiles)that they confirmed at the beginning was in the victims body and now it doesn't match ==solution they used condoms so in that case what about this other semen --it wasn't her boyfriend so perhaps they hope we will believe that she had consensual sex with an Asian man/men --unknown== and then these two Burmese guys happened to come along condoms in hand and raped and murdered her!! as they say the case is perfect

Sounds great ,no doubt when the body of the poor girl was returned to UK ,DNA samples must have been collected ,very simply all the detectives need to do is to personally obtain a sample from each of the accused and job done --at least regarding these two

Mark Kent appears shameful .,he doesn't seem to care that two of his taxpaying Nationals have been slaughtered and seems supine whilst a mockery of an investigation continues--is his only purpose to smooth trade deals and never be proactive on behalf of British Nationals

Perhaps some inmate may murder them because of the 'disgrace!--brought on his beloved country --so its a crime of passion foreigners harming Thailand therefore perfectly understandable, a small fine and all is back to normal

The frightening thing is these people think this will just go away

Who says you need to get on with this man --he is not the problem, he is behaving normally towards a farrang ,the majority of Thai fathers care little for their daughters and not at all for their farrang husbands, your wife clearly doesn't give a toss about you other than the money you give her ,the relationship or should I say non existent relationship cannot be recovered --you are a 29 year old man living with a 30 year old single mother who treats you like sh"t get off your knees get a real life and a new relationship, walk away dont look back and don't believe the pleading that will follow when you surprise them all by acting like someone with pride and sense

When seeking the next one accept that any girl who is in the pocket of her family and barring a little help for mamma and papa, thinks you must support her brothers, uncles, and myriad idle wasters is to be avoided ,there are lots of nice girls around but picking them is not that easy ,even being alone is so much better than the present situation

Good luck you have time on your side this will have been a great learning curve for the future

Got a new Civic --managed to get (after a fight) a car Manual but the sat nav system they tell me doesn't have an English manual

had lots of Hondas but have had enough of the hassle --its a Ford next time