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@beechbum

I tried it about a year ago or more, not long after it opened. I didn't like it very much the time.

Must try it again!

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Argh!
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I have no attitude (we are closing the company), and I don't necessarily see anything differently.

I'm just looking for advice.

I have the definitive answer.

Yes, you need a lawyer!

If you have a company, you need a lawyer to do anything at the Land Office.

One of the most important issues is that your company cannot have a farang in charge when the sale comes to the Land Office. The company has to have its structure changed just for the time it's dealing with the Land Office. The only person who can make that happen is a lawyer. Also, you have to trust your lawyer, because your name will no longer have voting rights. Clearly, the lawyer must make enough from the deal that skullduggery is unlikely. 

If I had my time again, I'd say ... never buy property in Thailand!!!

As of this morning, we have a lawyer and it's obvious that the accountant couldn't have done everything the lawyer is going to have to do.

The good news is that our accountant will hardly have to do anything, so there's some money to be saved.

Lesson 1.) NEVER buy property in Thailand!

Lesson 2.) See lesson 1

@Delight

Thank you for the advice.

You're right, it would be very easy, and cheap, if we were selling the house with the company. Unfortunately we're not.

What I'm asking though, is can an accountant do all this? Is a lawyer really necessary?

It seems nobody's sure.

@Langsuan Man

I don't have an attitude, certainly not a bad one.

Selling or not selling the company isn't relevant to whether I need a lawyer/accountant/both.

You seem to know something about the issue.

Why not make a useful comment?

The company owns the house.

We are selling the house, therefore the company is selling the house.

It happens that the company is not being sold with the house, but that is not relevant to this discussion.

Please assume that I know everything to to with the law regarding farangs owning a house by setting up a Thai company.

My question is not about the law in any way.

We are selling our house. Our company owns the house, so we will have to involve our accountant in the sale.

Can the accountant take care of everything to do with a house sale?

Do we need a lawyer at all?

Many thanks for helpful advice.

Yes, I've been stung a few times. No more than "mildly annoying"!

Our plan is to get a local to come and sort it out, and they can have any honey as a freebie.

Now, once the nest is gone will the bees head off to set up elsewhere?

Here's an update: January 3rd 2020, eight months on.

The nest is bigger and now we need access to the store room, so unfortunately it has to be humanely removed.

No chemicals, no mass extinction!

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I had one firework for NYE.

It was exactly like the one shown in the photo: same dimensions and same length of fuse. It was Chinese, of course.

I lit the fuse and moved away immediately. Good job too, because three seconds later the whole thing went up in one go, with a massive bang.

I was expecting some sort of repeater roman candle, but this was essentially a bomb, with very few visuals and a lot of explosion.

That poor bloke!
 

Here's a non-gory, blurry but un-pixellated video showing the moment of detonation. His face can't be more than four inches from the top of the firework!

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-national-news/news-asia-thailand/briton-killed-in-pattaya-after-fireworks-explode-in-his-face/

RIP

@oldcpu

The Green Man has a new chef and it looks like they've upped their game!

https://www.greenmanphuket.com/annual-events/christmas-celebrations/

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.......................just noticed that you'd seen the Green Man.

Never mind.

Thank you for the list.

We're still looking for somewhere for Christmas Day lunchtime.

There are a lot of places that are doing Christmas Eve but I don't understand. Surely Christmas Day is what it's all about?

There doesn't seem to be somewhere that's cheap and cheerful without being a sports bar, which is normally fine but maybe not on Christmas Day.

In the next year or so, we hope to be sending money to the UK.

I haven't thought about it too much, but I have some ideas:

First, it helps if you have a Foreign Currency Transaction Certificate (it's called something like that) for the original transfer of money into Thailand in the first place. This assumes that maybe you brought money into Thailand to buy a condo or something, and now you've sold it you want the money back in the UK.

Ah, but you're just doing it to benefit from the exchange rate. Mmmm... if you can prove the money came into Thailand you'll have a much easier time getting it out again. I read a while back that there can be problems taking money out of Thailand if you made the money here.

If you have a Thai wife life may be a bit easier. I don't.

What'd I'm going to do is get a bit of advice from our friendly Western lawyer in Phuket. Maybe  you might benefit from getting advice from a lawyer. Of course you should probably start by asking the bank.

Let us know how you get on. I'd really like to know anyway.

Good luck.

Excuse rambling stream of consciousness!

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Trudging though the obligatory TV nastiness, to the sunlit uplands of a few sensible views, I get the feeling that nobody has heard of this.

So maybe it's not a thing, or was lost in translation by the lawyer, etc., etc.

We'll see if there are more comments but for now I'm returning to DEFCON 3, my usual state of readiness in Thailand.

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Edit: this topic is in the TV newsletter this morning so expect more comments.

This was posted on the Phuket forum in the last week. I think it deserves a wider readership.

(Please note, I am only the messenger. The post doesn't relate to me at all.)

Is there any truth in it?

"A friend of mine (Aussie) was in the land office the other day as they want to sell their house of the last 15 years, they went through the generally accepted route of a Company to own the land and house with them as 49% shareholders and directors.

Please lets not get into the old arguments of whether that is the best way of doing it etc. that is not what this is about.

They were told that as from next year NO foreigners would be allowed to be Directors of Companies that own land, This has been confirmed since by my lawyer.

Has anyone else heard this? If it is true then it could mean a lot of issues for home owners."

I have a Zodiac V3 pool cleaning robot.

It isn't working properly and I need a replacement motor for one of the wheels.

Does anyone have any spares for the V3, new or second hand will be OK.

Thanks!!     ????

Try Security Safe Stop. 

They're run by a Brit, in Phuket. 

They did an electric fence for us in Rawai four years ago and it's still going strong. They operate in Phuket and beyond so Thalang will be no problem. 

The same sort of thing is happening in Siem Reap, and many other places as has been mentioned above. In Siem Reap a year ago, our tuk-tuk guy said that China was upgrading main roads throughout the country. The number of hotels that were going up was incredible.

I spent a few days in Sihanoukville in 2011 and found it a sleepy little town with hardly any traffic; certainly not the hell hole shown in the video. It might have been the time of year as the SW monsoon was in full flow but there was no construction at all apart from some local houses.

*sigh*

bx.in.th

I've used them successfully a few times. 

No problems and immediate transfer when paying out. 

This looks great!

I'm now feeling very hungry!

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I fuckin' hate the GoFundMe types but they are the new wave of travelers.

Apparently, it's everyone's right to travel with no insurance and very little money.

I'm 850 years old and am not happy to go online and sell my soul for healthcare refunds.

Thus, when my wife fell ill, way beyond our insurance's ability to pay, I had to spend my nest egg.
I'm not being smug, especially as I don't have the money any more, but it cost 50,000 GBP to save my wife and it was worth every penny.

BUT .. it makes me mad that some  ill-prepared <deleted> can get idiots to give him money to get him home, while I'm grinding my teeth because I don't have any money left.

@Old Croc

Please relax a little. It's just a few posts on a not very important forum on the Internet. Our lives and livelihoods are not at stake. 

I enjoyed getting a countrywide view of the rain situation. 

In Phuket (Rawai) it's been very dry apart from a few days of rain some weeks ago. I think we're in for a bad time next high season if we don't get a lot more rain in the next two months. 

Big Move, Phuket. 

Very professional. I have used them for storage but their main business is national and international moves. 

Haven't heard of problems around us, top end of Rawai, Sammakki 2 area.

Let's hope it stops around your way ASAP!

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