MadMac

Nothing wrong with it, just a different form of greeting. You can use one hand or just nod if your hands are full. Imagine they would do that nose thing as the Kiwis or kiss you like the communists

Besides any police or immigration, if you would want to rent from me a passport copy is one of the basic things you'd have to provide besides the deposit. That does not even touch all the BS that is going on with tracking of aliens, next thing is chipping us.

Your post seems a bit contradictory. Your tenants have to provide you with a copy of their passport, the next sentence says tracking of aliens is BS.

What do you want?

Why contrary? If you give something away to someone else for a certain time frame like renting out a room or an apartment, you want to be sure that you get it back or some compensation for any damages done. How would you do that without a form of identification of the tenant?

Has nothing to do with the now supposedly enforced tracking of "aliens" through government agencies and their aligned data sources, that is guesthouses and hotels.

Two different things, two different purposes/causes. But same symptoms.

Question: is a TM30 required to apply for an extension of stay based on marriage in Chiang Mai? These applications are sent to Bangkok for approval and it is not a requirement there. Any experience? In worst case one could now go to building 3 at the airport immi and pay some fine, but why if not required....

To answer that myself, no TM 28 or 30 is required when applying for an extension of stay. Makes actually sense, as it is the responsibility of the property owner, not the applicant. Neither is that 3 pages personal details form required or any similar personal details many people panic about. So it's a lot of hot air in the interwebs with barely any meat on it. Jai yen.

Yup, we report tenants all the time. It's a requirement to do so within 24 hours of their check-in. Takes 5 minutes to do.

So you have that web access, any idea how to get that on a non-commercial basis (no hotel/guesthouse)?

2 years ago I bought a one million baht car and after a while I decided to put it in my name, just to have ONE thing in my name.

Cost me, a very expensive (30.000) yellow book, for which I had to travel to BK twice (from Loei) with expensive paperwork.

And finally at the motordept, I was charged 8000 baht for the name change and a 22.000 for some prime insurance.

Since I am leaving I am only getting 500.000 for my car with only 25.000 km driven.

I am pissed.

Yellow housebook comes for free. Transfer of the car cost something around 500B incl. the number plates. If it comes from another province they will send the old number back and issue a new one. Standard procedure. No such thing as a name change fee and the first class insurance is up to you to decide. Not really needed for an old car/bike, get a 2nd class with high coverage.

Besides any police or immigration, if you would want to rent from me a passport copy is one of the basic things you'd have to provide besides the deposit. That does not even touch all the BS that is going on with tracking of aliens, next thing is chipping us.

Yeah, partly true. There are tons of dealers at the auctions and they get crazy on the crashed or otherwise run down bikes. Monkey business, load 4 of them an the pickup, drive home, fit some new parts and sell them for 5x the price. It's the usual clientele there.

But, you can inspect the bikes before, look at the condition, the age, the kilometers. There are lots of failed financing returns waiting to find a new home and if you are not completely stupid you can find gold without digging. Just set your budget and the model you want. If not, there is always another auction the next week. Same goes for cars, even more, the lots are full after Yinglucks 100000B tax rebate and people who can not pay up any longer.

We bought a Scoopy a couple of years ago from Union Auction in Bangkok, was absolutely easy, no additional tax, just the lump sum in cash. 28kTHB, that is half the new price for a 3 months old bike from failed financing. It came from Khon Kaen, transfer was also not a problem in Chatuchak. They sent the old number back and you get a new one. All papers were provided from the auction. I have no idea why it should be any different in CNX, that's an experienced international auction house that runs the place at Hang Dong Rd.

And keep in mind, you pay what you want to pay, it's an auction after all.

Question: is a TM30 required to apply for an extension of stay based on marriage in Chiang Mai? These applications are sent to Bangkok for approval and it is not a requirement there. Any experience? In worst case one could now go to building 3 at the airport immi and pay some fine, but why if not required....

Look here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/898085-id-card-for-farangs/

Got my 2 plastic cards today renewed and scored almost 6 years again, about a week after birthday and expiry. This took however almost the whole afternoon, more than 4 hours.

Arrived at 12:45, went to the information at second floor, application, scanned pass and yellow book + pink ID printed and copied. Lady at the information desk sent me straight to counter 23 without queue number, the lady there after shortly checking the papers to 28 and I got a number on a small blue card, C 2xx. Waited till 13:15 when they did that ridiculous test with the colors and reaction. Surprisingly some really failed that. Afterwards the big cinema event, went to the wrong room and was redirected to room 3, where they have some training PCs and the video in English, grosses Kino . I learnt that it is left before right, but only if not entering a roundabout the same time. Technically not possible but something like that....nevermind, having never seen such video it was actually interesting.

One our later had to go back to the other Thai video room to get my application papers handed back (they keep that for the time of the video so nobody can run away). And then my mistake, under the false assumption of same number for all I waited 30 mins only to realize I had to go to the information desk again to get another one. Complete waste of time and another 1 hour in the queue.

Finally time to pay, ended up with 1060B, including 2x 50B for address change, 2x 5B for I don't know and 2x100B for the photo service. The latter is ridiculous, she tried however (not so hard), made two shots and just used the first one. Such thing did not happen in Bangkok before, small extra money, but I got a tax deductible receipt, great. I skipped the plastic pouches and saved 20B after all.

Perhaps interesting to know as I also was not sure before.

They asked for a work permit, but yellow house book is accepted equally.

My house book has my BKK address and I got my DL with that address. No problem at all.

Tried to get the 13 digits Thai ID on the DL card (as that was the check criteria for national park ripoffs), showed them the pink ID. It would probably have been possible to use that but she said they would only issue 2 years DLs with pink ID cards, a passport gets 5.

Was out at 16:40.

Gunter, Villa Germania Jomtien best snitzel s money can buy.

Did they actually produce season 2? I really liked the first part. Was a great show for german Blutfernsehen. And they probably were the only ones who could gain from it. Never tried the Schnitzel though....

Having said that I nominate Udo and their Schnitzel on Mondays + buffet @ Auf der Au.

You don't need a lawyer for this, these are all standard things the land office will have standard documents for. And they will be happy to help you, unlike you bring some weird contractual masterpieces from a pampa lawyer that nobody understands and does not want to understand.

I grab a hooker or hilltribe person off the street to send subversive anti junta material. Doesn't everyone know that?

Does this count as social media now or not.....but wait...we're not in Phuket. These inactive posts must become rare....

It says "General Alien", alone that is worth it

I don't want the responsibility of a General. Could I get the rank of Captain?

Nothing wrong with it. Wear a Darth Vader outfit next time you apply for an extension.

It says "General Alien", alone that is worth it

Will try that on Monday, just back from the other side of the disk today. So old Immi it is now again. Let's see how that goes. Also have to get a new extension next week. And a new driver license. Lot's of fun ahead

There are life long licenses, they carry a red stripe, but are no longer issued. No idea what that 12 years thing could possibly be. Perhaps for a trike or quad, they are not covered usually

I suggest you get a Thai Elite visa. Small money, no questions asked and virtually in realtime.

Why you guys can not get these simple things figured out on your own? Agents make it worse for everyone in the long run, it's more than enough corruption in CNX already, they have enough to live from. Go and do your homework.

If you want to go for a cheap ride, buy Samsung. The "old" models that are on promotion everywhere for below 10kTHB. Staff at Global told us they just changed the design and look, inside all the same with the current models. Will cost you half of a Mr. Slim, may also last only half the time. But who knows.

You can burn 1500B in a studio?

You should make up numbers, if, if not, that test, the other, then play lottery as all the rest of the population does

1 BTU does not make a difference. HomePro calculate something double the size you need. They have usually a table hanging out for a rough estimation, at least I saw in BKK. If you come along one make a photo and compare it to a proper calculation. IIRC it was 600BTU per sqm instead of more realistic 300BTU.

Keep in mind that we talk here about 1000s of BTU. Example, for a 30sqm room you could roughly estimate 9000BTU, which is usually called 9BTU. HomePro would sell you 18000BTU for the same space, or in short 18. The price difference is likely also be double, if not more, and you will live in a freezer from then on. Of course more BTU may make sense if you want to let it run without any insulation or with open windows or with high ceiling ( <= guess there HomePro got their formula from )

The question was about the address, not the fact that a yellow housebook will work. I could imagine that CNX DLT refuses to issue a DL with a BKK address.