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4 hours ago, cracker1 said:

You will definitely be in trouble with Immigration Police if you are caught WORKING.

You are absolutely incorrect!

Im the OP and raised this thread. 

I had to go to the immigration dept' to apply for a multi re-entry permit. I showed him the 10 yr lease and photo of our building. The officer said no problem to do it. 

cheers

I am on an ext of stay based on marriage and I want to paint a commercial building that I have rented. We signed a 10 yr lease in my name and the wifes. Its registered and we paid the tax. 

Surely Im ok to paint out there by myself. Theres a lot of traffic going by. Am I breaking any rules? Obviously I’m not getting paid.

Thanks

30 teaching hours is a nightmare. 15 to 18 max. 30k a month.


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We have moved into a rental building and that has an old water tank. It was mostly empty the other day (due to a problem) and had some dirty residue at the bottom. Maybe all tanks have this?

We are trying to decide if we should have a filter at the tank OR have one attached to the kitchen tank. We might later be having  business on the ground floor that utilizes the water. Thus unsure if we

should just have one on the tank?

What set up do you have?

thanks

21 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

So it is not stated it is his property or not. if not his property he needs to mind his own business. 

precisely. we plan to call the number on the for sale sign tomorrow to see who owns the land. It could be our landlord as its behind their huge house

We moved to a new city recently and rented a building in which we are living. There are not many places to walk my dog apart from one street close by that has land for sale on one side and other areas as well. 

When I first started walking my boy there (twice a day) one old guy didn't look too happy. His wife was all smiling at me but the old man looked so serious. He has 3 dogs of his own which my dog is trying to get along with. 

The other day my dog was off the lead and walked into the huge vacant land opposite his house. He gave me this look of disgust. Admittedly it could be his land and if it is then Im in the wrong. 

We are away for a few days at the moment and the dog walker told us that the old guy says we should not let our dog walk on the area of land in question. He says we should pick up any poo with garbage bag. 

I hate being told what to do, but for the sake of our business I assume I have to let go of my ego and play the game so as to not make enemies with the locals. When we get back should I be taking the wife to have a friendly chat with this guy? 

On 5/11/2018 at 6:35 AM, mogandave said:

It was good that you were able to find the shop and compel them to refund your money.

yes. I sat in their shop and refused to leave. there was a new fridge in there and tools. The worker tried to get me out and lock up but I refused. Its possibly the main reason that we got our money back. Otherwise I think they would not have gone to the atm

On 5/2/2018 at 12:03 PM, DJ54 said:

Please post pictures when the work is done on May 6 Thanks

read above. it didn't happen. but we eventually got our money back

On 4/30/2018 at 3:52 PM, csabo said:

They robbed you. You are never getting it back and the police won't care. I use a contractor that I trust to work in my home and businesses and twice he subbed the job out and the subcontractor either did shit work that needed to be completely redone or they just ran off with the deposit. Both times my contractor ate the losse. My opinion is that if Thais are will to screw my Thai contractor occasionally then they would probably do it to me regularly. He gives me receipts for every purchase and is very affordable. I am well aware I found a rare gem. 

Im the OP. The update is that they tried to rob us but we got the money back. On the day they were due to do the job they didn't turn up and would not return phone calls. We found their fbook account  and a photo of their so called shop. Actually, it wasn't much of a work shop at all. More of a shack and he is cambodian. We turned up and one of his workers was there. He tried to lock the door and I sat down inside during the 'negotiations'. Its probably the only reason after 1 hour that they went to an atm and deposited to our account. Lesson has been learnt big time. Have to see their shop in the first instance and never pay in advance...

14 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

As said you do have a signed agreement as normal for any contract and receipt for deposit (or noted on agreement)?  

 

Edit:  reread and note "All we have is their bank acc number and evidence of the 2 deposits.".

 

Explaining to person who recommended might be first step.

no contract. Just bank deposits and some evidence on LINE where he sent some photos. 

What can we do?

On 4/27/2018 at 9:07 AM, poanoi said:

i thought everyone does that ?

Why is it necessary to do that? We dont bother doing that...

We had a guy come and give a quote 20,000 to install an internal aluminum gate structure to be installed at the entry point of a stair case in our building. At the time they said that they needed 10k to buy the materials. We did that bank transfer. We told him we wanted it to be installed 6th May which is when we move into the building. 

Then the day before songkran the wife of the guy called my wife 6 times asking for a further 3000 baht. I said to her that we should get a copy of his id card and was told dont worry about it as the guy is referred by our landlord. Instead I asked to see a photo of the work in progress which he supplied. 

We have been calling him and his wife asking for updates and further photos and they have not sent it to us. Now they are not answering the phone. 

All we have is their bank acc number and evidence of the 2 deposits. 

If they dont do the job for us what are our rights? Is the police the only option? Are they going to be able to get the guys address via the bank account?

thanks

On 4/25/2018 at 9:39 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

It is almost certainly the SCALA2 3-45 as my new on looks exactly the same

did you buy yours at a hardware store like home pro or a specialist dealer?

thanks

Last night I got back from being away for 4 days and noticed that I accidentally left the gas burner on. It was on a low heat setting. I was in a major rush when leaving but can't believe that I left it on and slightly suspicious. Im also surprised that the gas bottle didn't run out as its quite old and must have been running low before we left. 

I suppose we are lucky that the cook top didn't overheat and catch fire after being on so long. I think its one good reason to take out a building fire insurance policy even if one is renting. 

cheers

We signed a long lease on a 4 level building. The pressure on ground and first floor is ok. Above that is no good. City water is connected but no pump yet. 

How do the pumps work exactly? Theres an old tank in the back garden and an old pump. I thought that the tank has to be on the highest part of the building and then pump the water up to that and then this supplies the whole building. Is this correct? Should we aim to put it on the upper level or will it work being located on the ground level?

Is an electric pump system guaranteed to give strong water supply to all floors once working correctly?

thanks

Im registered with a NY based exchange and they are asking many AML questions from me. They want to know the source of my funds for last yrs bitcoin purchases. I assume its all the norm? I have nothing to hide

On 4/3/2018 at 3:21 PM, lordblackader said:

No, and I say this as someone who bought Ripple at 8 baht and sold it at 57. 

Price fluctuations are still way too tied to the overall cryptomaket and while there are some positive stories around it, it's primarily the technology and not XRP itself that is being used. 

If crypto bottoms out (it will eventually) and XRP itself gets some good tie ups, longer term it has potential, but not in the short term. If you're holding it now, sell. It will bottom at about 15c US or about 5 THB.  

do you accept that you are wrong about your price predictions? I think this yr will see it over $3

I read this article

Does it mean that theres a risk that I will get less bang from my buck if sending AUD over here in the future?

thanks

On 6/1/2017 at 1:19 AM, stravers said:

I can be happy anywhere as long as there's regular girls that are interested in meeting me. Not bar girls.

 

I've been to CM a few times and the student body did not seem to look in my direction. I felt maybe it's a faux pas to go with farangs up there?

 

you need to instead head to Issan. you would get plenty attention up here

Im arriving on a long distance bus into NCA Pats. 

I have a large hard case and thus cannot take a motocycle taxi. If there are none of the vacant thongthaews around what should I do? Do you think there are any yellow cabs driving past? Or can I call a taxi company?

thanks

18 hours ago, blackcab said:

Are you building your wall inside your existing building?

 

What I understand from your explanation is that you want to add bricks inside an existing room to make the wall thicker. In non-technical terms, you want to build a smaller box inside the existing larger box.

 

If I understand you correctly you do not need planning permission for this.

Thanks. We have asked many different sources about this and it seems they all say what you mention as well. 

Im disappointed with the greedy designer implying that we have to pay big money to do a 45 day approval process etc. Many of my wifes friends in the same occupation as her mention that we dont have to do this. 

cheers

19 hours ago, blackcab said:

1. A 6 year lease should be registered. If you have a 3 year lease and a contract for a second period of 3 years, this does not need to be registered.

 

2. Are you changing the footprint of the building by adding additional square meters of space? If what you are doing to the rear of the property is single floor construction that does not get within 2 meters of the property line then no permission is needed as long as the building's maximum built up area will not exceed the limit for fire safety.

 

If it's a small building you will be fine.

 

If your construction goes within 2 meters of the boundary and it will have windows then you could have issues. Were the previous windows removed because a neighbour complained?

 

3. 250k is outrageous. You need to wise up quick if you are going to succeed in business here, or you will be bled dry.

1. we did register it at the land office and pay the tax

2. We are not adding any additional sq m of space. We are just creating a double brick room for the X-ray machine. The 1 side of the wall is the boundary with the neighbour but we will add double brick there. This is the big issue we need to ascertain if approval is required for this as its on the boundary.

Its just a normal double shop size width building with ground floor and 3 above it

The landlord owns next door. 5 to 10 yrs ago they were going to make a hotel or something and thats why they removed the windows and bricked it up I assume. 

3. I dont think I need to wise up quick at all. I stated above that I would never pay that sort of money. Its even more expensive than western prices. I lost respect for the women after she quoted that and after she told me that she would have to hire a 'drafts person' to do the drawings. She is just s sales girl interior designer or whatever.