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3 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Not sure how that helps. My point is that expats here invariably overestimate their own importance in the scheme of things.

Which was my point ecxectly.

1 hour ago, mfd101 said:

Rubbish. Old Falangs are nothing but a pimple on the backside of Thailand.

You should read the post I replied to before you reply to me. Otherwise you just take my reply out of contest

8 hours ago, LikeItHot said:

When I first got to Samui from Phuket I went straight to Bangkok Bank with the necessary Immigration address proof form my new address and asked them to change my address.  Naturally they fought like dogs then finally did it.  I realized they were still charging me for ATM withdrawals and large deposit and statements etc.  I asked why and they said it was still a Phuket account so I had to pay for everything.  No less than two dozen times I asked them to look in their computer and tell me the address.  Finally they relented and saw my Samui address.  They were baffled beyond believe but still said to avoid the fees I needed to close the Phuket account by traveling all the way there (or letting it die) and open a new account with yet another address certification from Samui Immigration despite them having the same address in their computer. You can't win. Even when you win, you don't win.  Same basically happened at KTB and they said it was absolutely impossible to open a new account in Samui before cancelling the Phuket account by traveling to Phuket.  I firmly explained in Thai how insane the policy was and all the Thais in the bank started cheering me on and then suddenly the impossible was possible and they did it with the obligatory forty signatures.  

It's not a win\lose situation. You simply don't understand how the banking system works in Thailand. Simply said, the registered address has nothing to do with inter provincial banking. The location of your branch is what counts. A person might have multiple bank accounts in different provinces while a person can only have 1 registered residential address. When I moved from 1 province to another, at first I paid a fee for ATM withdrawals and also bank deposits while I was at the new province. I later opened another account in the new province and used the bank's online system or app to transfer money between my accounts for free. 

10 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Not to worry for the infrastructures left empty. Make the visa and immigration procedures easier, and all us quality posters of AN will flock the BTS, MRT, the malls, pool villa developpments and the banks with good foreign money-money.

ummm, the reason Thailand's median age is 10 years older than the rest of the world might be all the old retirees coming here at a late age... 

So simple. When I walk into the condo building I'm looking at my phone's screen. Same in the elevator. Never seen any no weed signs. I smoke on the balcony.

1. Do you speak Thai at all? Not just "how much", "where's the toilet" etc. Can you actually make a conversation in Thai?

2. What's the age gap between the two of you?

3. Where did you meet her? What work was she doing before you met?

I don't know if this is a troll thread like many like to start here, but the point is that if you cannot make a conversation in Thai that means you don't understand even the basics of Thai culture and it doesn't matter how well your wife speaks English or whatever your mother's tongue is. The other 2 questions are also important. Would you have married a woman of that age in your home country (I mean would a woman that age will even consider having a relationship with a man your age?)?

And of course the 3rd question - would you have married a woman of the same past in your home country?

20 hours ago, Mormolin said:

I've spent more time there than at the Grand Palace !

and so it seems do most tourists that come to Bangkok.

 

 

According to your logic you should also add the toilets to your list of attractions

1 hour ago, xtrnuno41 said:

You are sure in Chiang Mai? You know there is smog for 3/4 months, attacking your health.

Not long ago, saw a darn nice house and really cheap. Then i checked place and understood why.

Price was already low, but still even negotiable.

Legal, Thai law, lease period is 30 years. After that you have to RENEW and CAN be done, but if owner says "no" then it is the end. After that one you can do it again for 30 years, but same conditions. So 90 years totally, BUT if owner says "no", it is off. You can also say "no".

Only a usufruct can be set for (your) live. You still dont own. You die and land is back to owner. Only Thai can own the land. House can be your name, but if it is on leased land, you have to break it down after lease then.

Makes no sense, I think, to split it up. You are now buying, house/land in a Thai relation? House and land then on woman's name, but then with usufruct. Or are you buying condo? Condo has other regulations.

I think you're confusing laws from different countries... AFAIK in most Western countries the longest lease possibly is 99 years. In Thailand it is only 30 years. If you want to re-lease there property once the 30 years are up, you can, as you said, if both parties agree. And you can keep re-leasing the property as many times as you and the owner agree on it, no limit to 3 times.

As for removing the house at the end of the lease - that will be according to your agreement with the owner. Actually, according to the law whatever is on the land at the end of the lease (fixed things, not movable and personal belongings of course) now belongs to the owner of the property.

1 hour ago, LivinginKata said:

 Incorrect. There are about 6 levels of land title. Chanot is the top/best title, then nor sor sam gor, then nor sor sam, then lower titles only use for farming or hill land/. Only the top 3 types can have building permission for larger scale building.

Chanot, or NS4 is the only real fully freehold title deed, with the most accurate measurements, no limits on selling/buying (after the limited period of 5-10 years of "red chanot" has passed) and a possibility to divide the land to separate plots and issue a chanot for each of the parts. NR3 is a limited title deed whereas NS3r is a bit better. Both are with less accurate measurements and no possibility to divide the land. The "titles" you refer to as for farming or hill land are no deeds at all - those are limited permits to "make food" from the land and those are not even registered at the land department. Those permits are issued by different government agencies.

All of the above is not related to my original reply which was a question about a title deed for the house separate from the land which the one I replied to claims he has

19 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

Only the land has the Chanot. Assume he has a contract too lease the land. Max 30 years, The building would have a building permit, then license with Tabian Baan from the local Municipality (Tesibaan)

4 hours ago, zzzzz said:

Chanot's are for land,

Building permit was in my name
my name is also in the back of the blue book

Chanot is the ONLY type of title deed in Thailand. There's no other document to show ownership. The blue book is a house registration document, only lists THAI citizens (and PR holders) that are registered to that particular address. A Thai person can own many properties, but can only be listed as a resident in 1 of them.

The building permit is just that - a permit to build on a plot of land. Nothing to do with ownership. 

And besides - even of it does - can you sell the house without the land it stands on? Can the landlord of the plot sell the land with the house on it?

8 hours ago, zzzzz said:

In their name   NO!!
in a company name where the farang owns 49% YES 

The Farang Can own the building on said land, ( I owned my house on land that was in a good thai friends name)
 

Did you have a separate chanot for the house?

Wow. That was quick. Less than 24 hours on prison... I though he'll stay there at least until the new government is on place.

8 minutes ago, Jack Hammer said:

Should be , chump

Or a chimp

18 hours ago, pookett said:

Note to repo-men. Masking tape is designed to be removed without leaving

I'm pretty sure that's why they use it. After all, they'll have to sell the car in order to recover the money and who'd want a car with marks?

19 hours ago, BenStark said:

I booked an economy flight with Emirates, I checked yesterday on the website how much it would be to upgrade to business from Bangkok to end destination and it said 42.000 baht.

Today I received an email that I was "selected" for an upgrade at promotional price, but I have to be fast to accept of course./

 

Bangkok to Dubai 26462 Baht, and Dubai to end destination 31754 baht, total for the whole flight = 58216 baht.

The promotion will not give me access to business lounge, extra luggage or extra miles.

 

So I checked again through manage my booking, and now the price for upgrading the total flight is 49000 baht, 7000 more than yesterday, but still 9000 baht less than the "promotional" price, and with all benefits included.

 

I guess I must be missing something?

A possible explanation:

Every class (first\business\economy) is divided to subclasses. Each subclass has a different price and different conditions for the ticket. So in your case the offer on the website might use a lower subclass (and probably the difference between the 1st and the 2nd time you checked were based on different subclass due to availability), and the promotion offer is based on a higher booking subclass.

On 8/15/2023 at 12:22 PM, KannikaP said:

I have been led to believe that WISE is not classed as a 'normal' bank. No money actually crosses any financial borders when you do a transfer. GBPs stay in UK, THB are already in Thailand.

I'm pretty sure it's the same with bank transfer....

On 8/15/2023 at 12:21 PM, Lacessit said:

I renewed the comprehensive insurance on my vehicle on July 1. The registration expired August 5.

Due to some screwup between the insurer and the Phan post office, I have not received a copy of the new policy.

When my GF took the car to the Phan DLT, they refused to renew the registration on the grounds it was uninsured.

What should I do going forward? I have already asked the insurer for another copy of the policy.

2 options:

1. Wait for the documents from the insurer to arrive.

2. Buy new p.r.b (compulsory insurance) at the DLT

On 8/15/2023 at 12:24 PM, transam said:

They are not interested in private insurance, all they want is the Gov. compulsory insurance. You can pay that at DLT if you haven't got it.

usually when buying 1st class insurance it comes with the compulsory insurance. I know mine does 

On 8/15/2023 at 12:24 PM, KannikaP said:

Use an insurance company who have the facility called EMAIL!

You need the original document, so email doesn't help

This story was published here about 1 or 2 weeks ago, so what's new?

There are so many massage places in Thailand, I doubt many of them are licenced. Most probably most are not.

In Thailand a minor is someone under 20 years of age. Just saying that they employed minors doesn't mean much. How many minors? How old?

4 hours ago, rocketboy2 said:

Thought the title meant,  you could pay to have a go at flying this one.  

(  Thailand’s aviation adopts pay-to-fly models )

 

 

Beautiful model. 

4 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

I can confirm that the water diving method works.

Drilling company came to my place, used the copper rods and said 'here'. They gave me a price and I said that I would call them.

Next day I took two pieces of metal, bent the ends and tried it. It worked. I found two spots.

One, the rods moved slightly. They said ' not much water or a long way down'.

The second place the rods moved a lot. It was was there that they had suggested.

Thinking that this was crazy (mumbo jumbo), I tried it on a couple of plots belonging to neighbours. I found the spot for the well both times - this was before we asked the drilling company.

The 1st driller that came gave me his rods to play with. Never got anywhere with it...

I've asked a few well drillers to give me an estimate about 7 years ago. They all came with 2 metal rods to look for best location. No radar or any other electronics...

They all had the same 2 charging methods:

1. You pay per meter at your chosen point (with or without their recommendation) and if they get to the deepest point they can but no water found - it's on you.

2. A set amount of money and they drill as much and as many points as needed until water is found.

I went with the 2nd method.

The 1 that took the job found water at 70 meters but continued to about 100 meters to a second and bigger water pocket.

There's an official government website that have geological maps showing locations, depth and estimated flow of underground water. I found it about a year after I got my well, though...