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Why so much discussion on a topic that should be easy. Just allow all foreigners with ties to Thailand (Wife, husband. long term GF, house, long term rental) to come back and face the same 14 days that the Thai do. Yes Thai's get right of way when the planes are limited, we would do the same. 

Sadly most western countries also limit the nationalities that can come in. It's not a particular Thai thing. 

Case closed. 

I like that advice, where i come from it's more direct : you look at the place and put down an offer with the mention that you are not flexible on that "take it or leave it" in the current market. Will try your advice with a thai seller / landlord

That's a lot of marketing <deleted> for 3 lines of code that generate a random discount percentage on the asking price. 

7 minutes ago, Airalee said:

You’re looking in the wrong place.

Thanks and no offense : That really doesn't compare to what you get in the higher end of the market. 

Only 80sqm house, no compound, no security, furniture/kitchen/bathroom quality, other houses on armlength and so on. But for 18.000 ok of course

Looking at renting and possibly buying in Hua hin (yeah i am dumb). All projects i called came up with big discounts without even asking for it yet. Rent prices are over the top, 50/80k for a pool house that costs 6 to 9MB. Ill go in guns blazing and will either rent something for half price or buy for 33% off. 

No one is looking to buy, so this is the time to do it !

(dont worry ill probably rent)

On 4/25/2020 at 8:27 AM, DeeMak9 said:

The hostility against landlords never ceases to amaze me. Renting out property is the livelihood of many and some of you dare to talk about 50% reductions. Unless you're jobless or got a 50% reduction on your salary yourself, shame on you.

Hostility ? Do you know how the stock market works, or any market for that matter ? Supply and demand, you have something that is in oversupply, if you want it to be rented out you have to follow market prices, if you don't you don't get anything. Grow up

I am looking at the moment as well, the agents already say "don't worry about the price" giving an indication how overpriced most rents are. However, don't forget you get the property with furniture, tv's, kitchen appliances and usually the pool and garden maintenance is included in the rent. Also the owner pay 4 to 6 baht per square meter land for security and maintenance of the project. 

Pool plus garden are usually 2500/3000 baht per month, the project fee for 500 square meter between 2000 and 3000. 

So the owner already "loses" 4500 to 6000 baht per month of your rent for maintenance, factor in the furniture/tv's as well. If internet is included add another 700 baht per month. Cable tv, no idea, i never ask for it.

I look for the average asking price of the house when it's for sale, divide that by 240, add the above and that's your reasonable rent.

Example 7 million pool villa : 7.000.000 / 240 = 29.000 add 5.000 and you get 34.000 a month. When asking 40.000 you can make a reasonable offer of 30.000 and in the current corona times, i would open with 25k. There are so many houses, one is bound to agree to 25/30 when starting at 40/45

Sidenote on the 25k market : These are houses that can be bought new for around 2.5 to 4.5 million baht and although usually pretty ok, they can't quite match the L shaped pool homes with western standards

Good luck and maybe see you in 6 weeks as a neighbor somewhere. 

13 hours ago, thai006 said:

 when you no work in thailand u not got money like these other country    , oh yeah 5000b  what a joke some people just spend that mount of money in just one night here lol 

5000 baht is not a joke in a country were you can easily live on 10.000 a month. 5000 in the province is actually enough to live on given that almost everyone has land, a makeshift house and nearly free food. 

So think before "U lol" as you so eloquently wrote

1 hour ago, gamesgplayemail said:

another champion...

Would be nice if you added something creative, funny or interesting to a subject instead of complaining about other people, wouldn't it ?

According to my very Thai girlfriend most restaurants stay closed because :

1) most of the staff is still in Isan, busses dont operate for long distance so they cant come

2) very little customers, so if they do open they lose more money than if they stay closed

3) kiss is not a restaurant !

But you can still fly from Suvarnabhumi to Don meung ????

When Thailand decides to have stores and services open again, it will probably still have restrictions on incoming tourists. As long as the virus isn't fully under control i can understand they would want some health certificate if you plan on coming here on vacation.

Tourism however will not go from zero to 100% in a day, it will slowly but surely pick up again. The centara group re-opens in September. You can see that as an indication that the Thai think that tourism will pick up again in the high season. 

Slowly but surely the normal state of affairs will take shape automatically within a year or so from starting to allow tourists back in. You don't actually have to -do- anything as a government, the whole machine will start up by each individual doing their thing again. 

In the beginning there will be an oversupply, prices will temporarily go down and attract more people, till we get back at what it was before. One nasty little virus with a death rate below 1% will not reshape the planet and/or Pattaya in the long run.

4 hours ago, ReLo said:

 

Stop your BS, nobody is dying anywhere and hospitals are not overcrowded AT ALL.

You really believe that with 50 millions smartphone everywhere we would not know the truth ?

funny people !

Ummm some problem with my wording maybe ? I mean exactly what you are writing ! 555

( this is a nice way of saying : can't you read ! )

All that talk here about the number of infections being 100's if not 1000's of times higher than the official numbers : Go to a nearby hospital, have a look, do you see tents, overcrowded place, coolers with bodies ?

Check the social media in Thai, do you see large numbers of people dying, villages empty with crying people, bodies on the streets ?

Exactly, the numbers are never correct because we can't test everyone, but the numbers are surely indicative of the current situation which is pretty rosy compared to Europe and the US. 

12 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Thailand should go its own way - down the drain as far as I am concerned!!

And this helps how in this discussion ?

Went to jomtien immigration yesterday even though i didn't get a letter in December when i extended my visa. They did take all my papers, asked for a missing copy from the bankbook statement,  stapled it together and put it on a pile. Didn't get any receipt just a thank you. Not sure what would happen if you don't report, i am guessing absolutely nothing.

Thai red tape , more paper in a warehouse somewhere that no one will ever look at again. 

Let me get this straight, you now have to come back twice per 3 months, 1x to show your bankbook and 1x to do the 90 days reporting ? If your 90 days does not coincide with your 90 days for the bank...

2 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

I find Thailand is much safer than many other countries I have lived in and driven in. There is something very odd about the way these stats are rolled out without context. For me driving in Saudi and Libya was much more dangerous. Saudi was particularly frightening. But in Thailand driving is easy, mellow and safe so for me there is a disconnect between personal experience and the oft reported 'carnage ' stats. Can anybody explain?

If you are in a car this is actually true, check out the World Health Organisation statistics. You'll find that Thailand is about as safe as Canada, as long as you are travelling in a car that is.

The moment you sit on a motorbike, everything chages however and thailand turns into a death roulette. 

Apart from that, nobody honks their horn, point a middle finger at you or otherwise shows signs of roadrage, that is untill they do and pull out an AK47 or a hatchet.

Enjoy thailand till it enjoys you.

On 10/30/2019 at 1:42 AM, smccolley said:

That being said, the density of antennas for 5G will be orders of magnitude more than 4G since those frequencies can't penetrate much of anything, so there will be an antenna on every piece of street furniture to get a proper signal.

 

Based on that fact, 5G will only be available in the densest population centers in the world for the foreseeable future - think stadiums and shopping malls, later rolling out to the CBD districts. Anyone living in a residential area should be "safe" from 5G for a long time.

Exactly this, most people are totally unaware of the cost and complexity of setting up a 5g network, it's order of a magnitude more expensive than the current system. It's strangely enough also being touted as something entirely NEW, which it isn't, it's just the same internet but faster.

You have it at home already if you have a high speed connection, does it make the web substantially different ? No, its just speed. 

Those nice predictions are just that, predictions and lets not forget they just project the current trend into the future. However and happily so, NO currency did every appreciate forever, what goes up must go down. 

One political instability later and the baht is 35 to the USD.