rekkie

Its lucky if you know how to make shoes....

But my thai gf tells me it will bring you 10 years bad luck...

Not just Pattaya...would suggest The Bay Breeze hotel on soi hunni inn pattaya 700 baht a nite and good base for the action then will have plenty of money to give to the cash mchines with a lovely smile!

Don't forget to have a pub crawl on The Dark Side!

If you build a condo don't you need first a condo license?

The legal side of ownership will be very difficult 49% and all that and maintining those proportions.

Sales...route to market Ban Krut is not the centre of the universe.

Do you want to live next to Mr Cheap Charlie and his 35sqm condo and 20 people you have never met. The calibre of condo buyers is variable

Insurance and liability/relationships of neighbours/suicides all possibilities

What happens after you have built and 2 years later sold none...ie second worst case..worst case being it fell down!

Is it worth the heartache or just build you own pad

Signed...devil's advocate!!

ps do not design a dream and expect it to be built well here keep it simple and functional

Have a look at some of the Aberdeen funds...AAIF is one and doing very well indeed.

I have been investing in Thai land and value has more than doubled in 4 credit crunch years...sure there will be a few replies to that one!

Yeah not as good as gold!

The best policy is for us all, like the Ambassadors, name and shame the corruption.

1. To warn those that don't know and educate them as to what might happen to them

2. To put what pressure we can to get some action, to get a deputy prime minister to talk about it is a very positive step, the action though we do not hold much of a candle for unless more and more negtive publicity comes out.

3. To stop or slow down the earnings of these bad people as the faster they earn the more corrupt they will become.

Believe a couple of Thai families up the back of the 9999 bar near Mabprachan...think 1 bought 1 renting...probably others.

Very beautiful

Very quiet

Very relaxing

KOH MAC the same

Here is an idea, and happy to assist...i have been in real estate here and son of a hotelier....

Buy land on motorway and build/set up a 500 baht a night hotel for stopovers.

Land and hotel in company and get your good lady to run the show.

This could be ramped up to be a nationwide business.

I arrived on a 90 day b visa single entry with a job offer. Work permit will be delayed until about a month after the b visa expires, can i get an extension of my b visa in Thailand? i am a UK national

Thanks

Just done the rounds last week for a pickup. Chev have immediate availabiity nice cars bit gutsy, Ford desperate...9 months wait for most pickup models Fiesta 1.5 about same! Mazda BT50 outside looks good inside not my cup of tea at all. Toyota now down to a 1 month wait but apparently this is not quite true and best to expect 3 months

Triton....i've gone for the plus 2.5 AT....the curves are a breath of fresh air, the electric rear view glass nice, instruments all there that you need auto 350 n/mm manual 400 n/mm....class leading power and as eco as the rest...From reading problems most seem to be with ittle things and usual customer service from garages.

When you live on the Dark Side their is no desire to go into town simply because we have everything we want.

I also find prices better, bin cheating less and girls slightly less focused on the atm. (note i said slightly)

Mabprachan needs a few more venues that are not shacks.

A full size supermarket is needed near the lake

Soi siam needs to be a dual carriageway!

Banks, they can do what they want i am 2 years into a complaint procedure in UK and because they are sooo busy with complaints it may be another 2 years....looks like they are being held to account and so they should be, pursue them...

My worry would be Tesco Lotus. Before you had the street to your self and a few thousand was made. Competition and the fact Tesco has a better selection/offer would ring alarm bells in my head. Tread carefully......

May the person who did this be shown no sympathy.

I get the feeling the Thai Economy is following the UK and the west into a world of consumer dept!!! GDP figures are misleading. Title Should read consumer dept increased by 20% in 2nd quarter

Agree totally watch debt levels carefully, i think that Thailand debt could go the same way as europe over the next cycle. So many unsold units and maybe just hearsay but lots of reposessions going on. Government funded growth?

The WRAP system makes a lot of sense. Do you know of any Advisors covering Asia that follow this system ?

Nb. I don't think anyone would post stocks on thaivisa in order to pump them up given the core demographic here. Lol

I am not aware of this type of account in Thailand, but then again i never really looked for one.

I also dont foresee pump and dump being a problem here either, but i am ever the skeptic.

There is a core group of posters who have been posting here for last 2-3 years +, with a history of (i think mostly) good advice on financial issues- if someone turned up hyping a stock here they would soon be busted if the stock was a dud 'pump/dump' type.

I am a believer in filters and 6 months ago came up with 5 shares that looked attractive on the set after putting them through 5 filters. All have done pretty well which says to me that filters should work with the Thai market and perhaps let you outperform the market as a whole.