Mikkihiiri

If you put aside the same yearly amount you would pay to an insurance company you will not be covered enough if something serious will happen. I am 65 yo and have a 5,000,000 THB coverage insurance with PACIFIC CROSS. The premium is around 52,000 THB per year with no coverage below 50,000 THB of hospital bill. You get a 10% on the yearly premium if you did not use the insurance the previous year.

Obviously, the fastest way to solve the problem of the balcony rail is to do it yourself and avoid long discussions wirt the Juristic Person.

But that will not answer the original question, that is: who is responsible for the balcony rail or who owns the balcony rail.

If you check the Chanote the balcony is included in it and so the balcony rail comes with it. But that does not mean that you can do whatever you want with your balcony. The balcony should be kept in a way that is not modifing the external look of the building.

Obvioysly, it is the joint duty of the Committee and the Juristic Person Manager to enforce the By-Laws and the Thai Laws even taking the offenders to Court. We did it several times in our Condominium and our Juristic Person always won. But it is not easy to find a Committee or a Juristic Person willing to take cases to Court for Co-Owners breaking the Law. It takes time and experience and some headaches, which is something most of the Committees or Juristic Persons are more than happy to avoid closing their eyes on Co-Owners that are not respecting the law.

The balcony rail belongs to the Unit and, as such, is not part of the Common Area.

I was the Chairman in one condo in Pattaya for 12 years. Our Committee obliged all the Units to maintain the balcony rails properly otherwise they were fined for two reasons:

1- safety

2- the external look of the building was affected as the rotten balcony rails were of a different color than the good ones (there is a Condominium Act section saying that Co-Owners are not allowed to modify the external look of the building).

I registered for the vaccine yesterday in Samui. They asked me the passport and my insurance card. The took a photo of my passport and they recorded my name, surname and passport nr. That's all and they said thank you and bye bye to me. But oooopss .... I reminded them that maybe they needed my mobile nr. and address if they needed to contact me to give me the jab in the future. And yes, they agreed that the those two additional data were indeed important.

What a stupid, if they are able to identify the homeless they can easily identify us without a mobile and an address.

Absolutely amazing. But I love this Country.

Totally agree with you. I have been working 5 years in BKK for a German multinational and did dozens of job interviews. If you offer an interesting position with the possibility to grow and a good treaining plan the person should show much more interest into his career than the money.

He should than first shows his capabilities and skills and then he should get a good salary increase.

Recently I heard a friend of mine saying that an Immigration Officer told him that if a Farang has a Marriage VISA he can work without a Work Permit if he works for his wife's business activity or his wife's company.

Is that true?

Mikki

Right, firast time 60 days and later 90 days. However, many Lawyers studio can make it, even if you do not have the money, for a 20,000 Baht Fee.

According to the Thailand Condo Contract Regulation (in attachment) the ARTICLE 3(6) says:

The business owner shall be responsible for income tax, specific business tax (SBT) and duty stamp with regard to the transfer of ownership. Particularly, with respect to registration fee or contract fee, the business owner and the consumer shall equally be responsible.

So, the Consumer (the Buyer) will have to pay only half of the Registration Fee. At the moment the Registration Fee is 2% so 1% goes to te Seller, Matrix in this case, and 1% goes to the Buyer. That is what the law says and regardless what it is written in a contract the Developer cannot over-rule the law.

For sure Matrix will die hard and will refuse to transfer the property unless you pay the full Fees and Expenses.

Furthermore, in their contracts Matrix always mention that the Buyer have to pay for the Cost of Premium, Stamp Duty and the Various Expenses but they do not mention Sales Tax or Withholding Tax and a tax is a tax, not an expense. So, in the worst case, any tax should not be paid by Matrix anyway.

Get a goog lawyer and fight for your right. By the way, as long as a Developer hold the Title Deed (Chanote) they have to pay for the Maintenance Fee. That is what the Condominium Act says.

For further and deeper details on condo law feels free to contact me: [email protected]

I have quite an experience in condo matters :-)

Yesterday we had quite nervous meeting with the Developer on several Accounting topics. Anyway, they showed us the PEA electricity invoice of August 2011 for the temporary meter. Almost an A4 paper full of calculations.

Grand Total (including a low 3.something %VAT) was 55,000THB. Total consumption 16,000 Units. That makes 3.44THB/unit.

This is what PEA replied:

For about a current rate of TEMPORARY METER of PEA electricity is 6.4369 THB per unit. For about a rate 4.3093 THB per unit is the old one.

So it seems that the current rate is 6.4369 THB per unit.

Anyway I will try to get a PEA bill for the temporary meter used by the Developer in the Condo where I own an apartment. At the moment the Building Manager refused to show me one.

Thanks a lot!!

I will write them an email

Thanks a lot for the document!!

There is still some confusion because I have another document by PEA (attached) that says 4.3093 THB/unit.

PEA Services Rate.pdf

Like it or not. Companies come to Pattaya to have their meetings or Conventions. You might find the place inappropriate, without a Opera House or whatever but that it is not what is needed to hold meetings. And the market gives the ranswer. Companies come to Pattaya to hold meetings so, going on discussing if that makes sense or not, does not change what the market percives.

Any more words are just a waste of time.

I know the electricity rates for a normal meter. I was just asking the rates for a Temporary meter

I have been working in BKK for a German multinatinal company and we used to have meetings and conventions in and around Pattaya. It is nearer to BKK than other places like Hua Hin, for example, and offers a huge choice of first class resorts and hotels that are very well equipped to satisfy the needs of 200+ guests. Company meetings are always organized in a way that your time is already booked for various activities so not much time to hang around the streets, except maybe the last night. So I find Pattaya a convenient location for BKK based companies. You can always have a 3 days and 2 nights meetings in Phuket or Chiang Mai but that comes with much higher costs especially if you have to move a 200-300 of your employees. WITH A FOCUS ON MICE I agree that Pattaya is a good location. The place made a good improvement compared to 15-20 years ago and there are lots of places where to live in quiete areas and away from the party zone

Does anybody knows what is the eelctricity rate that PEA applies for a temporary meter in a residential building (condominium)?

The information I have is 4.3 THB/unit + 7% VAT. Is that correct?

Thank you

Mikkihiiri

I recently came into possession of a Unit in a condo in Pattaya. Actually I already paid the last stage payment on February 2011 but the developer still have to transfer the property, Title Deed, to my name. Talking to other owners I found out that in the current fiscal year some some Units were asked to pay a Common Areas Maintenance Fee of 45 THB/sqm per month and some others pay 55 THB/sqm per month. Those fees where actually written in the contract when we bought the Units. So some Units were sold with 45 THB/sqm and some other with 55 THB/sqm. I checked the Thai Condominium Act and reading section 14 and section 18 I understand that each Owner have to pay for all the common area maintenance and management expenses according to a % that is obtained by the ratio of the Owner's Unit sqm divided by the Total Units sqm. So it clearly seems to me that the developer is not applying the Condominium Act regardless of the fact that he wrote different fees in the contracts. Is that legal? Can he do something like that simply because he is still owning the property, even if we have already paid the full contract amount, so he feels free to apply all the rules that he wants?

Mikki