builderstu

Yeah buddy, just get it made up, cost probably around 300 baht. All the sign shops in your town can do it if you show them the picture

Hey thanks for your reply. I've checked it out before but just wondered how easy or difficult it really is adding to the fact the wife won't be going with. 

I've also looked in to the registration and been advised it can take up to 18 months and around £2000 half to a lawyer and half for the registration (approx) again knowing if anyone has been through this it would be handy to know just what the process is and how easy or difficult it is.

Ok here's the situation, I'm looking to take my daughter to the uk, I'm British by descent which means I am unable to pass my citizenship on to her so I have to get her a visa to visit the UK with me.

she has a Thai passport already and UK embassy declined a passport as I was British by descent. I'll not be taking my wife with yet.

my question, has anyone else been in a similar situation and how easy was the process? What do you need? 

Cheers

Now they've really put their foot in it. The heels! Somebody would not toe the line it seems, and now bad publicity is their shoe that fits -- and they are wearing it.

What a kick! I wonder how TAT will hand le this one.

They might just leg it.

It's absolutely correct, thailand can stand on their own feet without foreign investment. They do not need coke, they do not need Pepsi, they do not need Toyota, they do not need Nike, they do not need Pizza Hut or even 7-11. All the people working in these companies and many many more can all go back home and grow rice or sugar. They can make it on their own with 150 baht a day.

Why do they just not put a big sign at the airport arrivals desk and say "all foreigners place your wallet in this basket and Check in for your onward journey out as we do not provide any visas and we do not want you to have any business here and we do not want our Thai people to have relationships with you, but we want your money. Krap."

Exactly bluespunk, and I am sure you know that comments made here are of others opinions and have no actual truth about the survey so no need to shoot someone over their comments.

Clearly bluespunk hasnt followed all the news and seen what the general said previously.

Maybe they read the generals remarks. If you are ugly and do not wear bikinis then you will be fine.

So it seems there are a few folk out there that are interested in doing renovations, why not form a group and advertise for distressed sellers. There will be people out there, you just gotta look for them. My trade back home was financially distressed sales, we advertised and found hundreds of leads per day, but then we did cover the whole of UK. We were able to buy properties at knock down prices some even at 40% of value. For sure there will be people needing to sell here and there is profit to be had, but you got to buy cheap and keep costs down and sell cheap otherwise you get stuck with a property that will cost you money in the end. I guarantee that there are folk needing to sell, maybe not in the hundreds and not at 40% of value, but for sure you will pick them up. These people go to real estate agents and they say they want X, agent says but its worth Y, seller says I need to sell so sell at X. Agent then walks away and tries anyway to sell at Y making a huge profit, if and when it sells. Cut them out and advertise for these folk. You will find them.

My wife and I looked at the idea of renovations but we also believe that it's hard to sell an old property to Thais. There are many superstitions and some of them worry that they buy a house that previous owners can't afford and the bad luck might carry to them and they lose the house to. Plus then you have that worry about the pees and that.

We eventually decided against that option, even though we could get cheap properties. We opted for new builds, build to sell. We buy cheap land, and build cheap houses. They are of quality, but cheap Thai style houses. We do this up country and we sell, and sell good. We keep our prices low and keep the greed out of it. Generally we look for around 750k - 1mil profit after everything. We buy land large enough to take around 5- 9 houses and build and move on. It can sometimes be difficult with red tape but if you want the profit then you got to do it.

For me this is a better option, plus you could make good money if you complete one site (5 units) per year at mid rang profit.

He realised that they were not taking in any extra money, instead they were having to pay out to much. The bribe pot was now emptied. Hahaha

Morning All!

I have located a real nice spot is about 100m from a main road and around many houses and a few government run buildings and a couple banks nearby, but most of all it is slap bang between 2 schools with approximately 7500 students plus teachers daily. The wife and I have looked and discussed on numerous occasions about what could be done there and here are a couple franchise ideas of what we looking at. 1. 7-11 franchise or 2. DQ franchise.

We are in a fairly large town and there are currently four 7-11 stores, but a good distance away from this location (1km approx) I think this location is perfect to pick up the mass students during the week and then would be quieter on weekends.. I know what most of your thoughts would be on the 7-11 franchise opportunity, but I would like a bit more thought in your replies. Is it a decent enough idea to setup, what type of ROI can they offer, support provided etc etc.

On the idea of DQ, the location is ideally suited to pick up the school kids, plus there is no DQ in our town (as yet) although I think outside of this it wouldn't pick up much else because it is just back of the main road. I haven't been able to find much about the DQ franchise so any advise on this option would be greatly received.

Now before everyone jumps in and says about who will run it and qualifications and trust etc etc, a bit of background of us. We have been in the town and married with kids for many years, we are business people with other businesses running. The wife has a bachelors of physics and a masters of business management. We own apartments, houses for rent and construction company, this is simply an add on business. It is unlikely that the wife would be manager and fitted in to the store, it is likely that we would take on a trained manager from 7-11 or DQ and watch them closely or source our own.

Please, your thoughts on this guys.

Generally, the cost of the Cambodian visa is 1000 baht if you have a photo. If no photo, add another 100 baht and if a guy helps you, add another 100 baht. That's the normal for round here in chong chom. Has been that for last 5 years now.

Back in my 2nd year in Thailand, I was given a good bit of advice.............Stop asking "Why?" in Thailand! There is no logic here.

Change it to "how can they" then

No our land is in residential area and has all building permits for the house and is registered as a house with them. Cause I did think about that to. It just doesn't make any sense at all. They must be using valuations from 10 years ago or something.

We bought our house almost 6 years ago, it was then 1.5mil Baht (what we paid) and sits on 1 Rai land approximately 800m from two major roads and about 1km from the towns market. We are not in a small village but a rather big town, we have a Big C, several 7-11s, Tesco Express and many other shops. We are a fairly large town I would say with a good farang community as well.

We have bought and sold many pieces of land around us over the past few years so we have become very accustomed to the land values, some land right on the main road for similar to Pattaya prices and maybe even higher. Land here is very expensive now days.

Well today my wife went to the local land office to get a survey and land value of our own home, now I know that they always air on the side of caution and to that they told us the "current" value. 200Baht per square wah. Multiply that to Rai and you get 80,000 Baht for 1 rai. Now the last piece of land we bought and sold was 1/4 Rai we paid 500,000 baht (got it round 2/3rds of the actual going price) and registered at local land office at 150,000 so multiply that by 4 means land office value should be 600,000 per rai?

So how can they justify my land as being 80,000 Baht, when land around me is selling between 2 - 4 million per Rai? Its not possible to be that far out. Now if they could say to me that they have 500 rai available at their values I would take it all and ask for more, but it just isn't there. Land we bought on the main road works at 16,000,000 per rai going rate, where do they get this stupid valuation from? Their valuations are so far from the actual prices.

Can anyone answer my questions how this actually works? Cause I aint got a clue and I have dealt with a lot of land purchases and sales back home and here in Thailand.

They look so settled in already. Thanks for the post. Keep the pics coming I really enjoy to see them.

Well as the title says we have 2 beautiful siberian husky puppies looking for good home. They are now 6 months old and were bred using our own siberian husky bitch and another siberian husky dog. They are not 100% pure as I cannot confirm their grand parents and bloodlines but the parents both look pretty close.

These are wonderful kind natured dogs, both bitches and greyish white colors. They love walks and playing and good family pets. I am looking for a good home ideally someone to take both. They should have enclosed walled gardens with fairly large spaces for them to run about it. You would need to come collect from us and we are in the Surin area just off route 24. I will try post images of them later today.

Any queries please post here or message me direct.

Thanks

I once ran up an AIS bill of 5000 baht and they locked the sim until I called to confirm or make an intrim period, how can they have rules for one and not another. I know this is thailand, but this is a major company not a Micky mouse street cart.

No I don't do building myself in my own country or here, the wife has people to do all that kind of stuff here. I simply help on consultancy basis for drawings and advise for sales tactics. The wife does everything really though. But it is easy to get a work permit for that type of roll in thailand as there are many types of businesses like that in pattaya and other places alike.

I don't know, that would be down to the company they work for to organise it. Personally I didn't think any farang would actually be doing labouring/building in thailand. Firstly the pay is rather low round 200 - 400 baht per day and also it's to hot for most farang to do it especially for such little money. I think if any farang is considering a job like that they should go to their home country. I think it would be better for the farang to do a management/consultant type roll in any kind of building company.

Post Nr 10 sums it up.

AND; Work permit, work permit and work permit !!!!

AND: OP does not know where he lives in Thailand, otherwise he would have posted in the Isaan-Forum.

AND: Folks who come here and NEED to "make a little extra", should not have ended up in Thailand in the first place.

OP: In your situation, start looking at the "Cambodia-Option". Thailand is not for you.

Cheers.

You should have read all the messages, we are builders here but have free time and want to do something simple but can make a little cash rather than lose. Also it said we are in Surin area. Read a little before you spout out irrelevant dribble.

So, being a "builder" excludes you from having to aquire a work-permit? On top of that you probably do it on a tourist-visa!?

NO, Surin is not located in Central-Thailand. You may want to buy a map of Thailand. That way you may actually find out in what corner of Thailand you have ended up .

PS: Body-Building for personal use requires no work permit, you may want to switch on order to stay legal in Thailand.

Cheers.

Being a builder does not exclude anyone from anything. However a question first might give you an answer rather than assumptions. I have never (except for 10 day visit 6 years ago) been on a tourist visa it has always been work permit or marriage visas that allows one to do work and or stay visit family I.e. Wife and children on long term basis. So my guess in what myself or wife are doing is fully legal.

Surin as far as I know is considered north east. Central I though was closer to bangkok area.

Yes you are correct body building requires no work permit but then it's not a job it's considered a form of personal exercise.

We build houses for sale, only small developments in and our local town. But there are times when we have long periods of free time and we want to do just anything simple to pass this by. It should make about 15,000 up per month ideally and be simple enough for when we busy just stop and then free start up again. We had a plant nursery but this was to much work for when we are busy building and we also had minimart but again this meant we were tied at times when building came first. So really we need something for short times to pass our free time but needs to be worth while doing.