ChasingTheSun

Since its a a molar, If its not painful, just leave it as is.

The aggressive large-scale investigation and seizing of land from foreigners who illegally bought it using the thai company route will become a very populist thing for the government to do at some point.

Just a matter of time.

Still zero clarification about the tax treatment of people living with retirement visas or other long term non-working visas.

in addition, how about clarity on the treatment of bringing in pre-existing capital, not income/interest/dividends/cap gains earned outside thailand while living in thailand?

7 minutes ago, JackGats said:

Reading this news I'm glad my LTR visa includes a non-tax clause for anything earnt out of Thailand. It couldn't have come at a better time.

What visa is that which includes a non-tax clause?

4 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Actually the statistics on arrivals say that the ratio is about 50 to 1 in Russians to Ukrainians.

Show us the actual link of these statistics you are quoting for both arrivals and long stay visas.

12 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

If anyone knows personally from experience of a good lawyer in Phuket I would be very grateful. 

You coukd try to make this a criminal case of fraud with the police first. Try filing a complaint that you were defrauded and see how the developer reacts to that.

Alternatively, just filing a case officially at the court may be enough to get the developer to make a quick resolution, without the need to take it to an expensive trial.

2 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

There is a chonote but it had no ones name on it as no one has taken ownership of it. 

Assuming you have a signed contract and bank receipts, It would be worthwhile to get a lawyer to immediately threaten them with legal action if they don't fix the problem within a month, via a registered letter.
 

If they dont respond, get the lawyer to take it to court.

They will likely settle before any case actually goes to court.

8 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

It's a hotel.  There are 6 separate blacks of rooms, a big restaurant and reception, and 2 swimming pools.  Also a beach bar. 

 

The land was bought by a farang / Thai business that owns a couple more such hotels in Phuket. 

 

Best Western Hotel was supposed to run it, but they pulled out. So now it's a private hotel.. 

 

Be bought our condo as freehold. The file was only a certain number of the condos were allowed to be farang owned...the rest Thai. 

 

 

You should have received a chanote for your foreign freehold unit. it would have your name on it. Did you get that?

7 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Would do. But we have no blue book. They never registered it it in our names.

 

We saw a black and white photo copy of it from when they went to And office to register...but that does not have our names in it...and it was never completed. Said it would e complete on last payment. Well, we did last payment and then nothing. 

 

All we have are the receipts of payments.

 

3 months now and no money fron them...desoite our contact. 

 

We are moving out of Thailand now...they spoilt it for us.  Just trying to forget about it. 

 

Can't even put a friend in it...as the hotel has electronic swipe cards..

 

I would have loved to go down there and ruin the room and flood the place... And clear out all our furniture. 

 

 

Is your condo unit leasehold or foreign freehold or thai freehold?

On 8/10/2023 at 11:57 AM, jak2002003 said:

We have one condo in  Phuket as part of a hotel.  They basically conned us. We paid for it all including the furniture.  

 

They started payments fine, but after a few months they stopped. They said they could not afford to pay us becasue of covid,  then floods, then low season, then staff off sick.. Etc etc.. 

 

After long battle with getting the ownership in our name (which never happened) despite the fact we have all the records of contracts and our payments to them...they finally agreed to buy it back from us to stop us taking them to court.. 

 

After a few very erratic payments and many missed ones each month  payments last year all payments stopped. They do not reply to email, calls, anything. Yet their hotel is full and doing well...and they are using our room to rent to holidaymakers. 

 

We don't have enough money for the lawyer and are worried if we can actually trust a Thai lawyer. It's been so stressful over 3 years. 

 

Now we seriously considering waking away from it.  

 

 

 

 

Put it up for sale. Somebody will buy it for the right price.

3 hours ago, Bupko said:

I own 2 app in Cassia - have huge problems with management. They simply don't pay revenue. And im not alone. Preparing for the court. Dont believe in 6%

Can you get out of the rental contract with the condo management company and just use your own agent to lease it out?

If not, try selling. Perhaps some russians or chinese will buy if the price is right.

1 minute ago, Denim said:

This may shock some people so sit down before reading.

 

 

You don't have to live in Phuket . Thailand is bigger than that small, over rated island.

 

Do proper research and live somewhere else.

If you can’t afford Phuket, live somewhere else.

FIFY.

1 minute ago, brianthainess said:

I'm not telling but a long way from Pooket 

Wakanda?

23 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

That's what you get in overrated, overpriced, run by the Mafia Phuket.

Which is why I haven't been back and have absolutely no intention of doing so.

Good luck.

Please do share with us where is better than Phuket overall?

18 hours ago, MarkT63 said:

This is <deleted> crazy.

We rented a 4 bedroom villa in Sai Tan at the top of Boat Avenue for four years for 150K per month, both pre and post pandemic.

Private pool, very nice villa

Left nine months ago.

Similar villa (not as nice) on the market now for 350K per month.

We are not "poor" but over GBP 8,500 per month in Thailand - WTF???

Perhaps the 350k was mistakenly quoted as the month-to-month short term price, not the lower long term lease price for 12months+?

If they are just coming for a fairly short trip and focused on diving, then Rawai is good bet.

if they are coming for longer, and want to be conveniently central to do many more things, then Karon or Kamala are probably better options. 

Great thai food all of Phuket, so no need to worry about that.