Umlungu

They wouldn't have a clue. Why ask? Dunb, dumber, dumbest.

Ignore your experience, put it out of your mind, look for a position elsewhere, preferably in adult education. I lasted three days in my first job (high school) in Bkk, threw in the towel even though the principal begged me to stay. Tried primary school level, which was even worse. It's all politics in Thai schools, utterly and totally disgusting conduct towards foreigners, jealousy and covering up their incompetence. It is all about show, appearance, fun and frolic, entertainment, games - like eternal play school. It is not about teaching and serious learning - and the general educational outcome level proves that, not only in regard to English language acquisition where Thailand ranks last in ASEAN. After a bit of experience you should try private students, online or in person. Companies also pay well, you are teaching adults, who are occasionally more motivated because English language might be an obligatory qualification for career advancement. Thailand doesn't deserve foreign teacher input, effort and commitment. Pity the kids, though, they are missing out big time, with a bad education system and very questionable tertiary qualifications.

Thailand, the hub of ................ . Fill in the blank with whatever comes to mind.

Thirdly - dream on, just for show, health insurance on the back of an arrival or departure tax, blah blah blah, try and claim that..... Documents? Who hands out the policy docs? Scooter hire? Immigration? Passport control? 7/11 perhaps?

Cashed in already. Brit paid him out - according to the article.

All true. However, making eye contact as a pedestrian or traffic participant with a vehicle driver is practically impossible these days with all the black window tinting.

Awful. Especially the mention of sun drenched roads and warm tarmac. Really, I want to stay polite, and so I'll only suggest to stick to relevant issues (for example, had the tarmac/road been wet, but warm?) and try and organize the facts - if you actually know them and have confirmed, researched them - so that a clear picture of the accident emerges.

Traffic, including pedestrians crossing roads, is unpredictable in Thailand. Pedestrians are the weakest participants involved, so bicycles, motorbikes, normal cars, SUVs, pickups, lvans, lorries, buses and large truck need to adapt their on-road behaviour accordingly - which the rider in this instance evidently did not do as no time to react. The fact that the pedestrian was intoxicated is of minor importance. What I have been told about Thai law is that, irrespective of circumstances, the stronger party always carries the bulk of responsibility and liability.

Pity that moron on the bike didn't sustain some real damage. Bikes and riders like him use 2nd Road as a race track, speeding, swerving from lane to lane, producing a hell of a racket with their bike noise, revving without reason, going through red lights - all the things they can't do at home they live out here.

Why not? It's the stupidity, man.

Lawyers, accountants, estate agents, real estate developers, tradesmen, hardware and furniture stores, pool builders, cleaners, DBD..... and so on. Everyone benefited from this French lady's investment and spending and consumption.

Read again: The maid did nothing wrong. The farang lady might have. Learn to read and get the facts straight before ranting off.

As predictable as sunrise. How convenient to clamp down on company ownership when it suits. How about all the thousands of similar cases and the precedent set here where only the state will inherit any assets involved. Obvious;y the government is happy to entrap people over their lifetime and tolerate what is essentially a legal loophole, and then cash in when the the time comes. How about closing off the loophole from the outset - clear and concisely, but that might impact on foreign investment.

Agree, you've summed it up perfectly.

Fai foxing.

Correct. I visited in the early eighties and it was a great place for information, meeting genuine travellers (not the selfie generation), getting a fake stident ID card and airticket bucket shops. Like all such places (too many to mention, Ubud/Bali etc etc) commercialism has destroyed it. Folks are finally realizing that it's just a trap living off its memory/history. Stay away from it, I say, waste of time and money.

They need a tax to 'manage' the tourist stream? Ok, so how will those 300 baht contribute to this 'management'? More immigration counters open at airports? Faster processing at airports in general? Enforcement of public transport regulations, eg buses, taxis, railways and air services? Educating tourism and hospitality staff? In other words: all those issues that were never addressed - ever - , not even post-covid when the tourist numbers were down.

So the evidence of these broad statements of being 'flooded' by foreign tour agents or whatever is a single person who allegedly engages in prohibited business activities. Did you verify any facts? Visa? Work permit? Registered business owner with employees? No - you didn't. Shoddy reporting (I won't grace such nonsense with the term journalism) at best, defamation at worst.

No different to the usual trucks occupying three of four lanes on the Ptya to Bkk motorway, all engaged in a slow motion attempt of overtaking eachother.

What you wrote is uneducated nonsense. Sorry, but you really have no clue.

Sorry, before spouting off please read the relevant laws. Then read your rental contract. Finally, stick to the rules and the law and you will need no police or other protection from landlords like me. I protect my interests from bad renters who abuse, destroy, maltreat and neglect my property. You have every right to protect your interests as well. Please stick to Thai laws and don't import your home country rental agreements etc. Tenants, unfortunately, enjoy very little protection from landlord scammers who abuse the deposit system. - Tenants sometimes leave before a contract expires, leaving utility debts, damage and a mess behind. They might also leave with outstanding due rent. What would you suggest owners do to protect themselves in such cases? And yes, I do have the right once the tenant is in breach of contract to evict them immediately and also gain access to the property. I can prevent you from any further access to the property. I am the owner, you have an obligation to pay rent for the use of such property. If you fail to comply with the terms of this agreement, then you forfeit the right of access as well as any deposit paid. You are the one breaking the law. - If the tenant complies with all aspects of the rental contract as well as relevant Thai law, and the landlord does not by refusing to refund the deposit or part thereof (explaining and reflecting all reasonable deductions) or in any other way, then you must of course seek a legal remedy. Speaking for myself, it is largely a 50:50 on refunding and declining a deposit return. I have never had any legal issues with anyone, with most tenants who incurred a partial or zero refund agreeing that it is warranted when consulting the rental agreement they have read, understood, and signed. I, for one, will not be taken for a mug by argumentative tenants like you.

Thappraya Road is terrible. It seems a mad race from the Thepprasit Rd intersection up the hillto the axis / Pratumnak intersection/lights. Dreadful. It seems mostly those larger farang rental bikes. More police checkpoints required, confiscate the bikes, fine the riders, fix the bike within a week and present it to the police afterwards. No compliance? cancel registration and insurance and sooner or later they will be caught and the bike is history.

My goodness, you really are a friendly guy, aren't you? Not.

The landlord should have evicted you on the spot for not paying the rent for the final month - on time, in advance, as per contract, just like you paid every other month according to contract stipulations. You have no right whatsoever to withhold that payment and deduct it from your deposit and thereby consider it as paid. as I said, go read up on the law and also your contract. The police are not involved at all, they are not lawyers versed in rental contract law, are not entitled to offer legal advice or anything else. They can be involved in a forced eviction. Had I been your landlord I would have kicked you out on the spot by simply locking you out. Your entire deposit would have been forfeited on the spot (missed payment deadline). Btw, did you also refuse to pay the final utility bills and also deduct them from your deposit? If so, then you are one of the tenants giving tenants and landlords a bad name because you simply do not know Thai law in this regard.

It sounds like a badly worded contract. It probable boiled down to "two months' rent as a deposit for rent and damages etc". The is no legally enshrined limit on rent or damage security bonds. The amount is defined by the rent amount times two. that has nothing to do with the defined purpose of the deposit as a whole. also, you are lucky that your contract didn't (or did it, in fact?) state that the rent is due at a certain date, plus maybe an extra 7 days period of grace. That goes for every month, including the last one, as rent is always due in advance. My contracts always stipulate (and this is enshrined in Thai law as well) that failure to pay the rent - at any stage of the contract period - within the deadline (due date + 7 days) - constitutes a default of contract, resulting in the immediate termination of the agreement (i.e. eviction) and forfeiture of the entire deposit (without any further consideration of other potential deductions for damage etc). End of. Contracts vary a lot, it's always good to read and understand them, and not sign them if they do not suit. That avoids conflict and false accusations of landlords being scammers.