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And I agree, that can often be the best reason for installing solar power. I have PEA power supplied on my own underground copper cable. 54 PV panels connected to 3 grid-tied 6Kw inverters using the grid as a gigantic battery, and also 3 hybrid 5.5Kw inverters with 28KwHr of LiFePo4 batteries configured as a whole house UPS and a 15KVA AVR. I designed it myself, all in all about 500k THB, but we are immune from power cuts, run 13 a/c units 24/7 and charge my BEV car for free. ROI is between 4-5 years based on our consumption which is enormous. If I didn't have solar power, I would use about a quarter of the power we currently use, but it is nice to have the entire house maintained at 27C, even my garage is air conditioned to keep the car cool when charging.

In terms of value for money, I wouldn’t even consider solar for your requirements, bite the bullet and install that 240m cable.

You can blame America for the village loudspeakers. Their introduction was a CIA led initiative to instill national pride at the time Thailand was threatened with a communist uprising.

No parental consent needed for a child to own shares in a company, my adopted daughter owns my company and her mother couldn't be traced at the time of opening the company. The house can be sold out the company or with the company, you then have the issue of shutting the company down which can be expensive. We haven't got there yet.

You can buy the house in a company name giving your child more than 99% of the shares, a child can't be a director but can be a shareholder. It's better if you're not a director or shareholder at time of purchase transfer at the land office, but become the sole director afterwards.

Confirmed, the AML regulation is 2M THB, over this amount the bank will report the transaction to the BoT who in all probability will do sweet FA.

There's another issue here, presumably your kitchen has a roof?, you're not allowed to have any rain run-off onto your neighbours property, that probably means you need a gutter installing with a downpipe. The gutter must at no point be vertically over your neighbours land or you're trespassing. So the gutter has to be set back onto your land, the roof and wall must be inset from the boundary wall, you need to build another wall. In other words, you can't use a boundary wall as an inside wall for your kitchen.

Every Thai electrician will tell you that electricity is completely different in Thailand, and no earth is required ????

I would offer him 2 choices, either he provides a separate electric supply for them, or you will pay for the electric but won’t accept any loss of privacy. The first option is impossible for him unless he owns an adjacent property.

The MG EP is sold as the MG5 EV in the UK and it's the only car available in Thailand that I know of to be 25% cheaper in Thailand than the UK and probably the bargain of the century here through a mistake in the Free Trade Agreement negotiated with China, it's imported Tax/Duty Free. That won't last, Japanese cars have a 20% Tax Rate, I'm not sure about European cars. The ORA Good Cat is nowhere near the bargain the MG EP is. MG also have a superb charging infrastructure with fast 135Kw chargers every 150km. I have a Porsche Taycan and I have only single phase at home, I can charge at 220v 10amp, 16amp, 24amp or 32amp. For most of my driving, I charge at the lowest 10amp setting, I plug it in when I get home and it's set to charge when it needs to, but complete at 7:45am (i.e. when it's coolest). It rarely takes more than a couple of hours. Since I bought it in June, the charging network has improved enormously and it's now feasible to drive from Chiang Rai to Bangkok with 2 or 3 half hour stops for charging. You also need to bear in mind that you will leave home with 100% charge, but at charging stations you will only charge to 80% charge unless you want a very long wait. Once you've owned an EV, it's hard to go back to ICE, especially when the EV is so responsive, fast and quiet with servicing every 2 years.

You really need to speak to a lawyer, there can be a way to create the equivalent of a trust, Thai Inheritance Law has a facility to appoint "A Controller Of The Property". You will need to say this specific phrase to the lawyer, and he will probably need to read up on it to understand it and see if it is possible.

It boils down to two things, the wording of the contract and proof the agent was acting as an approved agent of the owner. First step is to get the owner to admit the agent legitimately represented the owner. If the owner said the agent was not acting for him as his agent, then you have no claim on the owner and you shouldn’t be in his property. If the owner admits the agent acted for him, then the owner is liable for anything the agent signed up to. The owner would have to produce something signed by the owner explaining the limits of the agents authority, without that document and the owner admitting the agent was his agent, the owner is liable for anything the agent has done.

It's no coincidence that the previous 400k insurance requirement for O-A visa was the same amount you needed to keep in the bank for a retirement extension (presumably so you could afford your medical bills). Expect to see the requirement of 400k in the bank for other long stay types to increase soon, it's long overdue. I doubt they will apply it to Elite Visa's, the thinking goes that they can afford any hospital bill, but expect to see the cost of obtaining PE visa increase.

You might like to read Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 64 studies (ivmmeta.com) the meta analyis is updated in real time with suspicious or withdrawn studies removed in real time. Meta analysis using the most serious outcome reported shows 66% [52‑76%] and 86% [75‑92%] improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis, with similar results after exclusion based sensitivity analysis and restriction to peer-reviewed studies or Randomized Controlled Trials We talked about newspapers etc, even the BBC gets it wrong, they published a fluffy opinion piece last week based on an article by a student and his 5 twitter friends. In case you're not aware, even one of the 2015 Nobel Prize winners for Ivermectin, asked Merck to conduct clinical trials as he believes in its efficacy, Merck declined, could it be because Ivermectin is out of patent and they have a competing new product?

I want to fly down tomorrow, I'm fully vaccinated, do I need a PCR test or something similar?