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Unlike Trump, who had 60-some court rulings telling him he lost the election and he respected none of them.

If you're staying '3-4 winter months' you're not really a tourist in the normal sense--someone visiting for a week or two, seeing the sights, and then leaving. Rather, you're a part-time resident, settled in for months and, as you said, likely renting an apartment for your extended stay--or, perhaps, a part-timer who keeps a condo in Thailand and comes to escape the winters. I maintain there's a difference between the two but respect your point of view.

Yes. I've been getting a reminder email telling me my 90 day renewal is coming up. If you do it on-line when you get the reminder, you should still have time to go in person if a problem comes up.

I think you'd be better off buying a property and renting it long-term. Time your last rental to when you will be needing the property for yourself. You might not earn quite as much income but you will likely have far fewer headaches. Likely far less damage to your property. Likely far fewer run-ins with the law. Then there's the question of who will manage your property? Who will check in and out the illegal renters? Who will inspect the property for damage/lost items and clean the property after each check-out? Who will be on hand to handle all the problems that come up?--and there will be problems coming up with short-term renters here to party hearty. Who will take care of arranging for repairs? Who will find someone to do the work, inspect the work, and then pay the repair person? If you don't plan to do all this work yourself you will need to pay people to do it, cutting in to your profit, supposing there is a profit when non-rental, no income days are figured in. Which brings up whether you still pay your workers even when there are no rentals. If not, will they still be available to work for you when you do have a rental? I'd rather deal with one tenant on a long-term contract, if I was inclined to be a landlord, which I am not having done it.

But, I did get it. Love doing it on-line and hope it keeps working.

The last on-line report I did was immediately accepted but it took several days before I got the email with the attachment to print out for the paper slip for the passport. Jomtien Immigration.

Unless it's a huge amount of money I don't think my life would change very much. Maybe upgrade a bit here and there. I did inherit some money last year. Invested half of it in stocks and banked the other half while I think about what to do with it. My parents were conservative with money--likely why I inherited some--and I guess that rubbed off on me.

In 2019, European tourists stayed an average 16.8 days in hotels; Americans, 14.4 days. Not 'an average 4 weeks'. The average for all international hotel guests that year was 9.26 days. Sounds about right to me. My sisters visited in 2017 for 10 days. That average stay has remained pretty consistent since 2010--always 9 days and change except 2012 when it was 10.2 days.

Fire him.

I agree with Dan O. Set up a trust. My family used Merrill Lynch to handle our family trust of my Dad's stock portfolio after his death. I would check with several reputable firms, explain your situation, and see what they an come up with.

A bit of information to pass along. I sent an email to the 'LTR Visa Unit' asking if property investments made in the past but no longer owned would be considered when meeting the requirement of $250,000 invested in Thailand if your yearly income is over $40,000 but less than $80,000. I have bought a number of condos in foreign name but have sold all but one of them, investing well more than $250,000. The answer was no. They did say that property currently owned would be considered. The answer from the email: Regarding to your inquiries on the investment criteria on Wealthy Pensioner, please be informed that we will consider your current investment on the date of your application submission. The past property that is not your ownership at the present cannot be considered.

Your abortion statement is incorrect. The Supreme Court left it up to the individual states to decide how to handle abortion; Kansas voters recently voted to retain abortion rights. Abortion is still legal in the majority of the states; it is likely to become illegal in 16 states, which would mean a woman in one of those states would have to travel out of state to get an abortion.

In addition to Jomtien. Pratamnak, and Cosy Beach, you might also take a look at Wong Amat. There are number of choices for condos there, with some on or very near to the beach. Your budget would get you a 1 bedroom at a number of the condo projects there, some older, some newer. If you go to the Hipflat website, click on 'Condo Directory', then click on 'Pattaya', then select 'North Pattaya', you will get lots of condo project listings for the Wong Amat area. You can also use the website to search other areas of Pattaya you might be interested in. Wong Amat is a nice area, quiet, but a good location, in my opinion. Using back streets, it's an easy drive to get to Beach Road and Central Festival Mall or Dolphin Circle and Terminal 21, Central Marina, and Lotus's up the street. Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and Pattaya International Hospital are both not far away. Some nice seafood restaurants in the Naklua area. Good luck with your search.

My partner and I noticed this, too. Our only thought was that maybe there will be a final surfacing of the road that will bring the road surface up to the level of the drains but as it is now they seem to be a hazard to both cars and motorbikes.

I'm an American but I must say I was very sad to hear the news of her passing. I was not aware of it until this morning when I opened Yahoo. I felt truly disbelief at first; I had to read the headline several times, as if the news was not registering properly. It was a very strange, unsettling feeling. I am amazed at the life she led. What has struck me most is her sense of duty, through all those many years as Queen. She talked about it when she ascended to the throne and remained true to it all her life. I find it so remarkable that she was able, with just days left to live, by what must have been sheer will and her devotion to duty, to perform her final official act of ushering in the new Prime Minister, her 15th. I won't soon forget the photo of her standing in her drawing room, smile on her face, awaiting the new PM's arrival. Ever doing her duty.

Me, too. On first glance I always think they've been in a horrible motorcycle accident that has scarred them terribly. One is too much.

You're making excuses to try to justify someone's inappropriate, possibly illegal behavior. It doesn't matter if the teacher was on Walking Street or in a church. With your thinking, it would be ok behavior to steal any loose currency you might see at a bank, since it's main 'purpose' is distributing and receiving money.

I think there are very few new or newer highrise projects in Pattaya that are less than 50% sold. Are there some failed projects and some struggling projects? Yes, but they are far-outnumbered by all the successful ones that have been completed. There are always exceptions but I think few big projects break ground without a healthy number of bookings and financing already in hand. Pattaya has a number of highrise projects in the construction and finishing stages--Once, Riviera Monaco, Copacabana, Edge, Riviera Ocean Drive, Arom, Empire Tower, Panora, Arcadia Millennium Tower, and some others. But, not too many I know of that are about to break ground. I think some developers are pausing on their own while they wait to see when the Chinese and other foreign buyers will be back.

Not buying the flimsy covid excuse.

Prawit, Prawit . . . He still alive?

I imagine her 'expectation' was to not be inappropriately touched by a stranger. Which should be anyone's expectation when out in public, no matter what the time or place.

Yes, in 2016. However, the only 'zero dollar tourist' is the one that doesn't get off the plane. The average Chinese tourist to Thailand spent about 49,000 baht in 2019. That's less than an American (71,000 baht) or a European tourist (69,000)--but far more than 'zero'. Since there were 11 million of them in 2019, they made China by far the biggest contributor of tourism revenue to Thailand that year. China was also the number one contributor to world tourism revenue in 2019, with Chinese tourists spending 254.6 billion US dollars abroad.

Agree. My partner and I have bought furniture from Chic Republic and SB Furniture--our Bangkok condo sofa came from SB and it's holding up well. We also like Lifestyle Furniture at Boonthavorn--we've bought several corner sofas, lounge chairs, and dining tables from them, as well as some patio chairs.

My partner and I shop at both, but more at Index since we are mostly in Pattaya. We think IKEA has a better selection of rugs; we especially like their sisal rugs which come in a number of colors, textures, and sizes. IKEA's housewares, lighting, outdoor furniture, and picture frames are also good. We've been doing custom kitchens and baths so we haven't used their selection of cabinetry but it looks fairly extensive. We like their large, upholstered rectangular ottomans with hidden storage--we've used them a number of times as coffee tables with a big tray on top. I haven't seen them anywhere but IKEA and they have a nice selection of styles and slipcover colors. We haven't needed a hide-a-bed but IKEA's selection looks pretty good. We use Index sometimes for bed and bath linens and houseware items. We've also bought bed frames and mattresses a number of times, as well as living room and dining furniture. Our last purchase was an office chair. We like that Index will assemble furniture for you and we've used their delivery service a number of times.

We owned at Garden Cliff 1, the condo, not the resort/spa. As I said, it was actually like a 3-bedroom bungalow. There was an open walkway to the front door. Two bedrooms looked to the front, the master bedroom and great room looked to the ocean. Lived more like a house than a condo. Not sure how you get a 'box' out of that. My idea of a box would be a 1-room studio. In any case, my post was to point out the very wide variety of condos available here, much more than the selection I had in the bedroom community I lived in outside of Washington, DC. The condo choices there were mostly 3-story projects with very little in the way of amenities--even the nice ones. I lived in about 6 of the condo projects and never had covered parking. Only 2 of the 6 had a small gym and a pool. Covered parking, a gym, and a pool would be considered average amenities here.