Peterw42

1500 Baht is a bit rich, 500 would be a reasonable price for a clean. As others have said, its a couple of screws to get the back off, a bit of compressed air to blow dust away etc.

I got a new keyboard fitted to a dell laptop recently, the keyboard and fitting it cost 1,000 baht.

8 minutes ago, Lucky Bones said:

If you are in Pattaya, get on the motor bike.

Plenty of houses up for sale thanks to covid.

Take a pen and pad.

Plenty of phone numbers posted outside.

 

Make an offer. Good time to buy.????????

 

That can certainly work, but where the OP is looking its mostly gated moobaans, you cant really cruise around looking for signs as they wont let you in.

You will find a lot of listing on facebook marketplace and facebook buy/sell groups nowadays. Even agents do most of their advertising on there.

That's where I found my house in soi khaonoi. The location here would suit you as there is a TOPs supermarket, restaurants etc, across the road.

It can still be a bit of a battle getting the location as some people will put a map location thats accurate, others will say east pattaya, and its in Rayong.

38 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Then you better have a tourist stamp in you PP.

 

Or simply drive legally ????

When did they start checking passports at traffic stops ?

So if I don't want to lose point and lose my license, I can just pay the tourist without a license fine, and keep my Thai license 

8 minutes ago, Paul3456 said:

In a review on Google maps of the One stop center and the Investment center they stated that men must wear long pants. If they arrive wearing shorts they will not be allowed inside.

 

Can someone who has received their visa please comment on this? Thanks. 

Its often a requirement for lots of Thai government offices, especially places like courts etc. The enforcement can vary, even some immigration offices are pretty strict and will deny entry.

23 hours ago, mikebell said:

There's a company touting for business along the queue outside Pattaya Immigration.  I'm using them next year; the test centre 30 kms out of town is a disaster area.

30 kms ????

18 minutes ago, pomchop said:

Excuse my ignorance but how does a vpn work if i want to watch on my smart TV...do i somehow have the vpn on my laptop or does the vpn reside on the TV or??....i want to be able to watch sling TV as if i am in usa.  How do i "install" the vpn, is it simple?

You can install a vpn at a router level, then all devices on the router are using the vpn, but its a lot of stuffing around, and you then need to go into router to turn on/off etc.

In the case of your TV, the vpn would be installed on the tv. But lots of smart TVs are limited as to what apps/vpn setup you can have. 

You may be able to do something like have the vpn on a PC/laptop then share the PC internet with the TV. Or cast the PC to the TV.

Not exactly legal, but there are lots of apps for getting geolocked content. Redbox, TVmob, swiftstreams etc.

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

So how many tickets would he have bought to win Bht 144M? I guess 24 if the top prize is Bht 6M per ticket. At Bht 80 per ticket, not a bad investment.

Not a bad investment, but if he has been doing that twice a month, 3.8k a month. Thats getting up near half a low paid Thai's monthly wage.

46K a year, I wonder how many years he has been "investing" ?

22 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Tried registering, but it wants to be in USD, no good for me.

I shall continue buying paper tickets at Lotus every 1st & 16th.

18 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Are you sure this is the official site? I just tried the app Paotung. With this it should be possible. But sadly everything in Thai only. 

There are several agents that sell online, and some specialize in selling outside of Thailand. The Thai agents do everything in Thai baht.

This site is in english and points to the various agents

https://thaiglo.org/buy-and-sell

3 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

No I haven't. Details please.

https://thaiglo.org/buy-and-sell

8 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Can you buy as not Thai online lottery tickets? 

I believe anyone can buy online.

https://thaiglo.org/buy-and-sell

I think i would depend more on the actual neighbors than the building construction.

Or whether you have some sort of kink where you want the neighbors to hear you having sex.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

2 to 3 a week? I'm easily at triple that. As I don't run any vehicle access to new foods at far away or inaccessible places is the best part. I'm not thrilled with many of my nearby places.

Yes, I am becoming a big fan. Some nights there are 3-4 drivers, the wifes food comes via grab, and my food comes via food panda., and 7/11 brings the milk, coffees from amazon. it gets a bit crowded.

As I said earlier, it just didnt work in a condo

Until recently I lived in a condo, and never used food delivery, for all the reasons mentioned, drivers couldn't deliver to rooms, no keycard etc (and I wouldn't want them to able to) it meant putting on shirt shoes, find keys, lift to foyer, walk to the front gate to meet the driver etc. It wasn't much more effort to then hop on the bike and get it myself.

I recently moved to a house where its delivery to front door, we now get delivery 2-3 times a week.

23 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

Does anyone need to tell them to do so?  Or is it done as part of the normal police response?

 

If the UK police didn't do anything about it like they do in Thailand, Thai embassies would be "calling the UK government to account".

Why do you presume the police wont do anything, I presume they are actively looking for the pick-up driver and will charge him. What else would you have them do.

36 minutes ago, pontious said:

Jomtien

I do marrige extensions in Jomtien. Its pretty much as per UJs list, with a couple of minor things. The map, immigration to your house, must be hand drawn not from google maps, The photos cant have a selfie stick in the photo, they will do a home inspection and at that inspection you will need a witness, a Thai with ID and blue book who isn't a relative.

OP, you may want to mention the office you will be using as the document requirements can vary from office to office.

10 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Indeed, but observing the other pedestrian (crossing from the opposite side) and the other vehicles travelling alongside the pickup it's reasonably easy to conclude that the lights were actually active, and that they had just turned green for pedestrians.

 

Yes, you are most likely correct, but the crossing is quiet an odd set up. As I said previously, the lights are turned off a lot of the time, when it is turned on there is no pedestrian call button (press and wait to change), so how/when the lights go red appears to be on some sort of random timer, not in response to pedestrians wanting to cross. 

So a drive up to get the milk, all of a sudden there is a red light where there hasn't been one for 3 months, and there is a red light with no pedestrians anywhere. 

30 year leases are noted on the chanote. Written on the back.

I think you will find it's not an official recognised lease unless noted on chanote.