Airalee

Can anybody else see the gobbledygook word salad here? Would you trust an agent who spoke like that and can’t be clear, concise and provide examples?

You make no reference to the price/rent ratio. Could you provide some examples? What will make it easy to sell? What kind of location? On a golf course? Waterfront? Near a mall? And how many other condos are competing with it? There is no shortage of anything that makes a “good location”. It helps…but not that much. What’s a proper kitchen? I havent seen any proper kitchens in condos under 10 million. Maybe even 20. They all seem to only have a 2 burner cooktop, a microwave and fridge. Rarely is there an oven and even more rarely is there a dishwasher. I think that one would have to renovate in order to get that proper kitchen, which is what I had to do, and I certainly don’t expect to recoup those funds even if it makes it easier to sell if/when the time comes. I personally think that it all comes down to lifestyle choice and 99% of units aren’t worth owning and the only thing that makes a unit part of the 1% is entirely subjective and it will still have to be somewhat unique. From what I see, there isn’t much uniqueness in basic 1 and 2 bedroom condos…with rare exceptions. Especially at the price point that the OP is considering. Can you provide a link to a condo for sale that you feel fits your criteria and is worth buying rather than renting?

Pay no attention to the gaslighting narcissist

Before I bought, I rented from Thais who paid 4m for their condos. In Chiang Mai I paid 14k and in Bangkok 18k. Once again, show me a condo that has a 10% return. I can show many with 3% or less returns. I am very well aware of the games played by developers offering the “guaranteed” 6% return. They overcharge for the condo and then basically refund your money over the length of the contract. It doesn’t matter what it rents for. Good luck selling for the same price after the 3-5 year “guarantee” Once again, if you can’t show me examples comparing apples to apples which is easy to do with a condo you’re just coming off as a scammy realtor. And land price means nothing when you have 3-400 units on an acre.

Yes…but this thread is about a foreigner buying a condo. And there is no way that a 4 million baht condo anywhere in Thailand brings in even close to 30k/month. The P/E ratios are way out of whack here. 5% would probably be a damn good return. If you get into the higher end stuff, people would be lucky to get 3% with a cash purchase…and that’s not counting all the time it sits empty. And fwiw….I own an 8 million baht condo.

My experience was that I would hire a contractor for a specific job (painting for example)….they would then subcontract it to someone else who would then further subcontract it to a supervisor and workers. It was absolutely ridiculous. I went through 4 different painting crews that didn’t even have a notion of painting in a straight line and not slopping it on window frames and door frames that were a different color. I did my best job supervising but my (now ex) girlfriend would chastise me for doing so. One of the workers literally told her the following day that he was so stressed that he couldn’t even eat that night….and of course, it was all my fault 🤦‍♂️. There wasn’t a single thing in my 2 million baht renovation that wasn’t a complete snafu. From the painting, to the flooring, the kitchen, the countertops, the electrical….all of it. I think that when you have the lowest iq people doing the work at the bottom of a chain of people taking their cut, you basically have monkeys doing the job. Even trying to supervise them directly and showing YouTube videos of how a job is supposed to be done correctly I would be told “This is not how we do this in Thailand”. And when there would be times that they would say “yes…I understand”….they would then just continue as usual. That is when Rampant told me that it’s just best to do the job myself. In the end, with so many re-dos of things that I couldn’t do myself (such as the countertops that had to be replaced, wiring redone, etc etc….I doubt there was very much profit in it for anyone. So…what does this have to do with university grads who can’t find jobs? They should go into the trades and do things right the first time and at a level of quality (that requires some amount of intelligence/IQ) to where they can actually make better money…and much better than being a desk jockey where they probably don’t contribute much and have little job satisfaction. Wishful thinking I’m sure because any manual labor is “low class” which is why you see them grow their pinky fingernails long as a sign that they don’t work with their hands. Back in the US, I renovated a mid century modern doing the lions share of the work myself and I agree….the people who worked with me were for the most part useless with the exception of one contractor who lived in the neighborhood who would actually come, look at a job…and if it was something he thought I could do myself, he would recommend I do so.

I had the same issues as Rampant when remodeling my condo and with his advice, I actually had to do a lot of the work myself. It’s not easy finding competent tradesmen in Bangkok. I let the hardwood flooring installers keep their money and did it myself. The guy cutting the caesarstone counters had previously been the installer for the counters in the new build. Yes….I completely gutted a new construction condo. I pointed out the screwups on his work in the unit next door to me and told him I would triple his daily wage if he didn’t make the same mistakes.

Because we are not international oil companies.

was “learn how to move to Thailand and marry a 28 year old single mom” part of this “top western university’s” marketing campaign?

I had a colonoscopy at Chulalongkorn in May through their specialist clinic. The doctor was. Bumrungrad doc. All in, including 8 polyps removed & biopsy was about 26,000 https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Maneerat-Chayanupatkul

Texting sucks. I can stir fry with a speaker phone. When I’m taking a dump and video chatting with a girl I just set my iPad on the sink with the camera pointed at the ceiling…..ya know….because I’m respectful.

I was going to say the same thing with regards to you and yagoda. An honest, unapologetic narrative. Whenever I see the virtue signalers come out, I think of Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson and Catholic Priests.

Isn’t that Dylan Mulvaney?

This was another video that I randomly came across on YouTube that actually works (for me) to help fall asleep while in bed. The speaker starts talking about the technique at 6:50.

Factories have been moving out of China for many years now to cheaper places such as Vietnam, India and Bangladesh. Minimum wage in Bangladesh is just over $100/month. Vietnam is less than $200. Keep patting yourself on the back for making their lives sooooo much better. If they have to move back to the villages, that is an issue for their country to solve.

I’m far more handsome.

Makes it harder for children to get jobs in sweatshops? http://mason.gmu.edu/~clensing/FinishLine.html

I know Yagoda. Dude probably has more honor than any leftist on this forum and would even have your back long before you would make any true sacrifices for other people.

Leftists need their 20 pairs of Nikes and garages full of cheap 💩 (don’t even have room to park their EV) that they don’t even use that was made by people making $200/month (child labor perhaps?) working for companies that freely dump their toxic sludge and pollute the environment far more than the western countries who have to continually hear scornful howling from the likes of Greta. I support even higher tariffs. Maybe then, leftists will understand the idea of quality vs quantity and will buy a decent pair of shoes (Alden) for once.

Speaking from experience, I wish I had discovered the Wim Hof breathing exercise before I ever ventured down the path of anti-anxiety medication. And that is all I have to say.

Mr. “There is no housing bubble” 😅

I think the exact same thing. But if you point that out, the leftists here on the forum will rightfully accuse us sane people of “whataboutism”. Personally, I think that “hate speech” (a ridiculous term) shouldn’t be made illegal because I like to know who to judge and subsequently avoid in my life wether they are on the right or the left.

Masked. 🙄 #*&@% losers. Haters too afraid to show their faces? They should own that s#** and let us know who they are so the decent people in society (from both sides of the political aisle) can laugh at them.

Funny when you can catch a lie in one screenshot.

Hilarious. The guy with 27,000 posts in 8 years says this to another guy with 4,000 posts in 10 years.