LukKrueng

Speak for yourself, man. We WANT it!!!

I never heard of this rule but it doesn't make any sense as it is not compulsory for non Thais to be registered in a house book.

How do you work out when you're there? Do you switch it on\off manually? If so, just show your bil how to do it.

I guess that on the UK the buyer has to wait longer to get the car. I know that this is how it works in some other countries - a customer buys a car that is usually already on stock, but road tax and customs haven't been paid yet, and the customer will get the car only after all is paid for and ownership transferred to them. Here you can get the car immediately if in stock, but as not registered yet you get it with temporary plates.

You can drive it of province, but must register the trip in the brown log book of the plates. The after dark used to be enforced many years ago, then the relaxed it. Red plates are issued and supplied by the government as well. There is a cost for it and therefore dealers have a limited number of them. Some dealers in the past used fake red plates with no logbook when they ran out of real ones. The process of new owner registration takes time. During pick sales times can be longer than a month. Another issue is that some owners request nice or "lucky" numbers which night take even longer.

You can only get an IDP in Thailand if you have a Thai driver's license. Same in every country on the world - the IDP is based on the local DL

Just to make it more clear for the OP - visa validity 90 days means you can enter Thailand within 90 days after the visa was issued. The permit to stay will be 60 days from entry date, entry date included

You only need the ticket on order to pay the fine. Nothing else. As was mentioned by @stevenl anyone can pay the fine. The police officer is not going to ask any questions about who you are and why you are paying. As for the amount vehicles on the road & the amount of licences issued - there's no relation between those numbers anywhere in the world. How can those numbers be related? Some people have a license but don't own a car, some own more than 1 vehicle, and of course there are many vehicles owned by companies

She's not actually going to run the country either. IF she becomes PM she's only going to be a proxy for her father...

Just turn this on on your phone and you'll have internet. If you don't have a set package for data (internet) usage you'll pay per kilobit used, a higher rate than if you have a set package. However if you only use it rarely to do simple tasks it might be cheaper than paying for a monthly package.

Misconception. There's no foreign quota. At any time a foreigner wants to buy a condo unit (doesn't matter who the seller is) the condo office has to check the ratio of foreign ownership and issue an official letter to the land office of the ratio at the time of the letter issuance. There can be times that foreign ownership is more than 49% - for example if during a short time period few foreigners are in the process of buying units at the same complex but none of the sales has gone through yet, the condo office will still issue the letter with the same ratio. By the time all sales go through there might be a situation that more than 49% is owned by non Thais. The next foreigner that will try to buy a unit from a foreigner won't be able to do so as the current ratio won't allow it. So getting a higher price for a unit really depends on many factors.

I built my house using CLC blocks. They are light and easy to work with. The only mistake I did was using the thin blocks (7.5 cm). Insulation is still good in most days, not so good in very hot\cold days. The blocks and special mortar needed are more expensive, but as the blocks are bigger and need a very thin layer of mortar the total costs are not much higher.

Your friend can fly to any country, including the PH. All your friend has to do is go through Thai immigration with the passport he entered Thailand. Go into the other country on whichever passport he wants and depart that country using the same passport he entered there, and finally enter Thailand using the Thai passport. As was mentioned above already, you cannot switch passports at border crossings.

On your first reply you wrote he managed to get his money back. But he only got a used car which would probably could be sold for about half what he paid for it, and he got noting for the house...

If I remember correctly, that case was a divorce case, and the end result was the woman got the house and the man got a used car.

When they make female like Android they will probably make male like as well. I think most, if not all man, Western or Eastern, will have a hard (soft?) time competing with those...

So many unhelpful comments... Here's my 2 cents: As the house is mortgaged there are 2 issues here. 1 is the transfer fee and tax. Just take a copy of the chanot to the land office where the house is and they'll tell you exactly how much you have to pay. It goes by the value assessment by the land office and how long your wife owned it. If she's registered in the house blue book and owned it for more than a year there's less tax. If she's not registered there but owned it for longer than 5 years - same. Now there's the mortgage. AFAIK you can't really transfer the mortgage to another person. The actual way to do it is the buyer has to get a mortgage from his bank. Pay you the full amount for the house, you have to pay what you owe your bank and the bank removes itself from the chanot (that will cost you about 1% of the sum loaned). Then the buyer's bank gets registered on the chanot after the title deed was transferred to his name. That will cost the buyer about 1% of the amount loaned to him. You should ask your bank how much you still owe them.

More as in for centuries?

I removed my ring when I realised it stops some girls cold

I'm not sure it still works the same way, but in the past people arriving to Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam had to que up for a visa before going through immigration. In Thailand those who need visa on arrival have to que for a visa before immigration as well, and they still come. As for the new tourists tax - we don't know yet how this will work.

But they do come. About 40m before COVID, and this year picking up despite all you mentioned plus the war in Ukraine plus inflation going up all over the world. when planning a trip for a couple of thousand of dollars an extra 9 won't make a difference

Weed is not addictive. I don't do yoga, but I sure smoke some before meditation

I understand that the way for AN to earn money and operate is by advertising on the platform. But lately those ads are going overboard and getting more and more disturbing and annoying. The newest being the video clips that cover 1\4 of the screen, the X to close it only appears about 30 second after the ads start running, and as soon as I close it a new one pops up. While typing this msg I already had 3 of them.

How about a carton of smokes for personal use? Years ago my backpack was searched in Australia and I was charged custom for it, even though I was smoking while waiting to be checked (was still legal back then) and it was obviously for personal use and not commercial qty. Last 2 visits to Oz in 2019 same thing.

In most cases there is only a title deed for the land. If you lease a plot of land and build a house on it under normal circumstances you won't be able to get a separate title deed for the house, meaning you actually own nothing. AFAIK only in gated communities built by developers they sometimes get separate chanot for the land and the house on it. So basically you can't calculate a price for the house and a price for the land. In any case, how could you sell the house without the land? As for doing it through a company as some1 suggested - this falls under a dark grey area as it is basically illegal to register a non performing company for this purpose. I know that many people go this route but there is a risk that the authorities will find out and you might lose it all. Also, if the land is owned by a company you will have to pay yearly taxes as well as more tax when you sell the land. So the only legal way to "own" land is to get it registered to a trusted Thai person and then "lease" it from that person for 30 years in hope that after 30 years the registered owner will lease it to you again for another 30 years. Mind you - a 30+30+30 years is also illegal and a court can void it completely (including the initial 30 years).