phee nick

Good day to all,

I would like to rent a house in an Ubon moo baan before buying. Area Nai Muang ,maybe Sarin Village.

Anyone have an idea how rentals on moo baans are to be found?

Is it the juristic office or people posting ads in Big C?

Am in BKK at present but will be in Ubon District soon and have a month or so to find a rental house.

I've seen ubon homes. com but not too much on there at moment.

Anyone know any agents?

Was there last year and looked at a Sarin show home and it was ok. 

Thanks for any guidance,

Nick

Couple of days in Savanakhet.

Apologies for segmented reply, cracked screen on iPhone causing issues.

Thanks again all.

...iPhone!!...an hour or so away from bridge to Savanakhet my best option appears to be getting another non-o based on thai spouse mid July, giving me the extra time to allow seasoning of funds.

The money won't be here today and with a bank holiday in uk I might as well give up.

Wife does not want another difficult last minute experience at Bangkok immigration and is very risk averse to any suggestion of overstay fines.

Will get letter from her employer, can easily show funds in thai or uk bank. Income is harder as I recently closed my uk LTD company and now rely on uk rental income from property which only started incoming in March.

So safest bet would appear to be a trip to inlaws (cheap flight bkk-ubon) in July and a coo

Thanks for all the replies.

Ubonjoe is correct I was hoping to continue on retirement basis as I've heard the requirements for marriage are onerous (must attend interview in same clothes etc.)

Anyway I have decided, as have inlaws and wife's house only an h

Thanks for the info.

I sent a test £100 by SWIFT last night to ensure details correct, will send rest when this is received. Hopefully it will be quick enough.

Nick

Hello everyone,

interesting and entusiastic replies, all appreciated.

Great suggestion to use a Halifax reward account to transfer funds straight to a Thai bank account, will stop using a UK card.

M-I-L is not an old lady..mid forties and is still not as suspect in my opinion but I can understand some of the opinions left. But knowing all parties in this matter, I think I trust my judgment that it's an ATM fault....any aspect of the global banking system is hardly top of my credibilty list. The M-I-L has not asked for any extra money anyway, is going to live with the loss and eat mushrooms this month

Thanks again for all replies, this forum is a regular read for me, I don't post much as still live in UK but have found much of use on these pages.

Thanks to all for taking the time to reply.

Agree only option is to apply pressure to nationwide, interesting to find if SCB records showed ATM didn't tally at end of day.

This was 6th Oct so if the situation was going to self correct it would have happened by now.

cheers

Ok upset thai wife and sleepless mother in law situation and that is not good for me!

UK Nationwide flex account card, in wife's name, sent to Amnat Charoen.

For over 3 years, wife puts money in everry month, Mother-in-law takes it out.

Last weekend, M-I-L tried to withdraw 15,000 baht....says...trying to withdraw too much....pressed cancel...no cash, no receipt.

Checked account online from UK. Statement shows 15,000 withdrawn on that date.

Siam commercial say cannot check records as UK card.

Nationwide say nothing they can do unless wife fills out transaction dispute form, which she is reluctant to do as they want her to confirm it was her using the card (she has already told them she will be using the card regularly in thailand).

Police in Amnat say only wife can issue complaint. We are not going home until April.

Somrthing very fishy about all this, anyone else experienced anything similar, any advice on way to persue issue in the face of such incalcitrance and obfusctaion?

Someone , somewhere is taking the proverbial and it just can't be that we just take this as a fact of life.

M-I-L has always been told to check ATM looks kosher, have had experience of tampered ATMs before but this seems different and stinks to high heaven. Can you trust what the ATM tells you and do you have any comeback when you've been stolen from?

thanks for listening,

Phee Nick

I'd say query the M-I-L a little more. Her story is what sounds fishy...

yes I know.

But believe me I am a true sceptic in such matters and my instinct in this is malfeasance within the bank, hence my feeling of frustration and my posting here.

After 5 years I am fully confident in the level of trust I have applied to in laws and this does not compute. It is money wife has earned working in a bakery shop in England..not my money (never is) and the M-I-L would never abuse the trust of her daughter.

100% sure problem is external to familial suspicion.

But I appreciate where you're coming from.

Ok upset thai wife and sleepless mother in law situation and that is not good for me!

UK Nationwide flex account card, in wife's name, sent to Amnat Charoen.

For over 3 years, wife puts money in everry month, Mother-in-law takes it out.

Last weekend, M-I-L tried to withdraw 15,000 baht....says...trying to withdraw too much....pressed cancel...no cash, no receipt.

Checked account online from UK. Statement shows 15,000 withdrawn on that date.

Siam commercial say cannot check records as UK card.

Nationwide say nothing they can do unless wife fills out transaction dispute form, which she is reluctant to do as they want her to confirm it was her using the card (she has already told them she will be using the card regularly in thailand).

Police in Amnat say only wife can issue complaint. We are not going home until April.

Somrthing very fishy about all this, anyone else experienced anything similar, any advice on way to persue issue in the face of such incalcitrance and obfusctaion?

Someone , somewhere is taking the proverbial and it just can't be that we just take this as a fact of life.

M-I-L has always been told to check ATM looks kosher, have had experience of tampered ATMs before but this seems different and stinks to high heaven. Can you trust what the ATM tells you and do you have any comeback when you've been stolen from?

thanks for listening,

Phee Nick