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Moved to the Real Estate forum. Lots of experienced members in there to assist.

This is not unusual. Many apartments have added a fixed common fee but reduced their electric rate.

Ultimately, I think you will find that if you don't want to pay then your contract will not be renewed. The owners will not change their entire work process for your benefit as tenants will be easy to find.

Your contact is short and you agreed to pay. If you argue then you might win the battle but you will lose the war. When your contract isn't renewed something worth 712 baht or more will be deducted from your deposit. A malfunctioning door lock? A window that needed adjusting? Cleaning due to a bad smell being in the room (try disproving that one).

That may sound harsh, but that's kind of how it is.

On 6/22/2019 at 6:56 PM, mapleleafrag said:

Does anyone know how long this takes? Booked an appointment Tuesday, can it all be done in 1 day or no?

Your affirmation will be issued the same day you attend the British Embassy - unless you incorrectly prepare your application and it cannot be signed.

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

How would you improve the ticket machine interface?

Add contactless payment.

I know that would incur fees, but if a deal has been done with Line Pay then a deal can be done with a payment processor.

Once that idea has gained acceptance point out they don't even need the ticketing machines as part of the process - you can add contactless payments to the entrance barriers.

Oh wait... That makes rabbit cards obsolete.

You need to swap them with someone heading back to the US.

Banana IT have a USB Home version for 3,990, with free delivery. I recently bought the same item and it comes as a genuine sealed box with a usb stick and a license key on a card:

https://www.bnn.in.th/software/software/microsoft-windows-home-10-32-bit-64-bit-eng-intl-usb-new-889842188073

I could, but I'm not going to. You might give my work details to lots of Thai ladies. Then my phone would melt with the volume of incoming messages and my life would never be the same again.

7 hours ago, onera1961 said:

Please show me a few published rate of 5BHT in condos.

The company I work for owns apartment buildings in Bangkok. The company charges the tenants 5 baht per unit, which is fractionally more than we are charged.

We charge tenants 16 baht per unit for water, which is fractionally less than we are charged.

Nobody can give you that guarantee. As you are asking the impossible, this topic is closed.

1. In any Amphur if the staff are willing.

2. Husband and wife need to be physically present at the same time. You can't get married one at a time and divorce is no different.

3. You need to attend in person. You can't send someone else to sign for your marriage when your are not present, and divorce is no different.

If this cannot be achieved then you will need to go to Court, where only one party needs to be present. This can happen when one person will not attend an Amphur for whatever reason.

If, for example, the house was built with a superficies, then the right of superficies can be inherited. In this case we don't know how many years would remain on the servitude but definitely less than 25 years as the OP has been trying to solve this for 5 years.

@AlexRich I do understand what you are saying, however I think this might be more about closure than anything else. It sounds like the OP will not have peace of mind until this is resolved.

@AlexRich Well spotted. There were originally a couple of posts that got merged - I missed that salient point.

OP - this is potentially quite a complicated issue which could involve a lease, a usufruct, a superficies or none of the above.

The only way of resolving this is by research at the local Land Office.

Either you will have to go to the Land Office or you will have to instruct a property professional to handle this for you. You don't really want a lawyer because at this point this is not a legal issue. What you need is someone very experienced in this type of property work.

How far back can you top up partially paid or wholly unpaid years?

18 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

It will have no resale value as foreigners cannot legally own land in Thailand, so it cannot be sold. 

Foreigners can almost never own land. If you inherit land you have one year to sell the land. Once the land is sold the money from the sale becomes yours.

During this period the executor's name can be placed on the title deed showing that the property is awaiting sale or distribution.

You can't find it on Google maps by typing in the address. That won't work.

Pretty much the only way is physically going to the village and locating it with local help.

Once you have that information then it's a trip to the local Land Office. From Bangkok you're looking at about 3 days work to get on site, find the location, get to the land office, dig up the property details, get copies and get back to Bangkok.

If you hire a competent firm who will get the job done then that's going to be expensive.

You either need to come to Thailand and sort this out yourself or you need to pay a very reputable agent to sort this out for you.

Either way it will cost money. You will not be able to solve this by yourself otherwise.

Moved to Forum Support for literate advice.

A flame post has been removed. Please keep your posts civil.

This is a really sad state of affairs for the gentleman in question, and I feel bad seeing how he has ended up. I hope his family do come and collect him, help him with his repatriation and then give him some help to get back on his feet.

I would imagine his family are quite horrified at his desperate situation. I would be if that was my dad or my brother.

Moved to the Real Estate Forum.

What specific jobs are you interested in?