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On 4/24/2021 at 8:27 AM, anchadian said:

And how many of those provinces will people adhere to these rules?

Where I live, everyone wears a mask, even long before it became mandatory. Even at my work everyone wears a mask, even when they sit alone at their own desk or private office room.

I would recommend you make a detailed design first, It will do all the job for you when it comes to estimating the costs. I and my friend made a detailed design for his house few years back. With the detailed design, we were able to specify exactly how much rebar, concrete, steel for roof, tiling, bricks we needed for the project, and the as-built was spot on the design. No surprise extra costs. Every single rebar was designed and pre-fabricated in a workshop, delivered to site and installed without a hitch. If you have the exact details about all material needed, nobody can stiff you on the costs.

You will need a basic design anyway for the land office. And I agree with 1FinickyOne above totally.

13 hours ago, John Drake said:

First, vaccine from China. Now, vaccine from Russia. Do Iran and North Korea have a vaccine?

Maybe Cuba, which is a highly reliable international partner, have some vaccine for sale?

The 2nd hand dealer will make an offer based on the condition of the car. If repainting is needed, of course the offer will be lower, reflecting the fact they will have to spend money repainting. The lower offer because of poor paint will probably be more than the money you spend on painting. They will then spend far less on actually painting, doing a <deleted> job just to be able to sell, nobody buys a car with paint problems, given there are so many second hand cars to choose amongst. The 2nd hand dealer always give a terrible offer anyways. A Ford that is 11 years old will be worth almost nothing.

I would repaint and try to find a private buyer, however, that is pretty difficult.

All the beaches and restaurants down in Sattahip closed on Friday last week (April 16).

Why do they need human trials? It's just a copy of the already developed and trialed Chinese vaccine.

4 hours ago, VBF said:

Noble Price indeed....but definitely NOT the Nobel Prize!  

How many have you had today?

Come on man! the Nobel Prize is kinda Nobel:) (Note the second misplelling is intentionel).

As for the chairman making the manager leave and putting another management team in place, that can only happen through a vote in the AGM, as is clearly stated in the Condominium Act. The AGM has to vote for the manager or management company. I do not see how the land office could have approved of the AGM agenda with such a blatant violation of the condominium act.

On 3/17/2021 at 9:46 PM, alyx said:

I am sure to have read in the Condominium Act that it would be illegal to restrict the common area to a certain number of people

I am also a committee member in a condominium. I can't fathom how the chairman was able to purchase part of the common area. That can only happen with a vote in an AGM, where the co-owners vote in favor of such a thing. In our condo that would never happen, so I don't understand how the Chairman could convince the majority of co-owners to agree to such a crazy thing. That being said, If the chairman is indeed the lawful owner of the path leading to the pool, this is no longer common area and he has all rights to prevent anyone from using this area for any purpose, unless there is a voted agreement in an AGM that clearly states that co-owners have access to this area in any way and time. 

By the way, the chairman is not allowed to make major modifications of his units without the approval of manager. If the changes are significant and may be a nuisance for other co-owners, it must be brought up in an AGM and voted on. Manager should stop any contractors from entering the building.

For the case where co-owners store stuff in corridors, unfortunately, in practice there is nothing you can do, other than making life difficult for the owner, such as making it difficult to access common area and such. In theory the Condominium act allows for punitive measures, but how do you in practice enact those measures without braking the civil or criminal law?

1 hour ago, pacovl46 said:

and I’ve always kept the same number!

Same here!

On 3/17/2021 at 11:12 PM, JetsetBkk said:

If anyone can recommend an app that does a similar job to Bitdefender, but without the impact on performance, I'd give it a try.

I've been using Avast since they started in the 1990's. Then they were the only one providing antivirus for 64 bit systems. (Windows provided a free 64bit OS for download back then, beta of course but worked perfectly). So I use it for all my systems, desktop, laptop, and my Android. Very un-intrusive. They keep popping up warnings that invites you to buy additional security features now and then, but I just ignore that, otherwise it works fine. Be aware about CPU monitors, most mobile devices nowadays have multiple CPUs, the cheaper having at least two CPUs, one with extremely low power consumption for routine simpler tasks and another for high demand apps. 

On the other hand, an Android 6 device is trash, just throw it away and buy any cheap device from any brand with at least Android 9 and you will be better of, no matter the quality of the phone you buy.

This is extremely groundbreaking research, very important. The researchers who conducted it should receive the Noble Price.

When I was a kid we had those yellow books that we had to keep with our passports that listed all the vaccinations the holder of the book has received. The yellow book was required to present together with the passport at immigration entry counters. 

On 3/5/2021 at 8:23 PM, Teachingjessica said:

I am almost done with my MA, so by the next check in I would have this, but still not a BA.

I'm confused, I thought that a Bachelor degree was needed to even apply for a Master Degree? Anyway you seem to be very competent, it is up to the university to accept your application and with those credentials I don't think there is a problem.

48 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, 46, was charged with abusing her authority by transferring a senior civil servant to another position in 2011.

In other recent news; Aung San Suu Kyi, the state counsellor of Myanmar, was charged with the horrifical crime of illegally importing communication devices into the country. Other charges may be levelled as well.

14 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Was even easier in Patong.No form.Bye

They used to do it without a form at Prachinburi too, but then all the staff changed and now they require me to fill the form. The form is really not used for anything, they have all the info in the database and print the receipt from there anyway. It seems all the staff in local immigration offices get rotated every three years or so.

On 3/7/2021 at 9:26 AM, recom273 said:

Has anyone else noticed this?

My experience is a bit different. I don't live around Bkk. Our local post office became overwhelmed a couple of years ago by parcels and boxes from online shopping. They decided to completely stop delivering ordinary mail (the envelopes) and focus on the parcels only. They have since hired a lot more staff to deliver stuff, but still does not deliver ordinary mail, other than the odd bill a year late or so. We have to go to the various offices to pay our bills. The various local delivery services like Kerry etc. all know the addresses and have their routes, they usually call in advance just to check if anybody is home to receive the delivery. Registered mail is still delivered reliably (touch wood):)

Might as well share my 90 day reporting experience at Prachinburi Immigration. After having a pleasant lunch at the Robinson Lifestyle center in Prachinburi, I drove to the immigration office, which is easily found on google maps. I had no appointment, I entered a completely empty office (A Covid-19 era Thursday afternoon about 1:30), filled in the form, gave it to the officer together with my passport, waited 2 minutes and then got it back and left:)

19 hours ago, Delight said:

This is not correct.

Committees set policy. In practice this means -in the main -agreeing on how monies will be spent.

Yes, you are correct, the committee members must all be co-owners, not a juristic person (meaning a management company). What I meant was having a management company run as JPM takes away almost all the usual work the committee would have to do, so the committee members are basically there just to sign stuff and never really take part in anything, while without the management company, a lot of work is required by the committee, especially the chairman. 

As many have said, If the intent of the company is for a foreigner in practice to own the land and live on it, it is illegal but seen with leniency by most local authorities (they simply doesn't care) but that can change anytime. best thing is to do the 30 year lease thing, expletively making a statement in the contract that the house on the land is the property of the farang, make the house movable so that it can be removed after the 30 years. A friend of mine actually did this and moved the house to another location after falling out with the landowner who tried to take over the house.

It's the motorcycles on the backstreets, 80% of all accidents are motorcycles. Focus on motorcycles and voila! problem solved.

Yes I agree with other posters that Thais cannot drive properly and cannot read or understand road signs, don't understand how road lanes work and never looks at the instrument cluster, and drive home from a day on the beach with beer or rum in a alcoholic induced coma (see a slow driver on the highway? probably drunk:)).

Yes, we see som horrific accidents now and then on the highways by the occasional bus, rot lotto and some pickup truck with the back filled with 30 people flying all over the place, but these are like those horrific plane crashes, doesn't really decrease the safety record of flying; still one of the safest modes of transport.

It is the motorcyclists that die and injure in droves all over the country.