Suphawk

Has anyone had any experience trying to buy a house and land where your wife/girlfriend owns the land and leases it to you for a 30 year contract, and you keep ownership of the house itself?

2 minutes ago, noobexpat said:

Change of title needed...

 

Owner rightly kept deposit

Your reply is useless 

Sure I understand that, I have been on the owner side before. However where I'm from it would have been a more equitable and I would have held the deposit unless I was actually able to rent the room and therefore not lost any rent I would return the deposit.

I had a contract that had not started yet. There is a contract start date. Just my 2 cents.

But this is Thailand and I wanted to verify if there was any legal basis.

Thank you for the replies 

Back story, I found a room I wanted to rent, unavailable until a few weeks in the future. Went ahead and signed a contract to begin when it became available and payed a 1 month deposit. With a couple of weeks until the contract started I had a change in my situation and had to cancel the contract. They decided to keep my deposit stateing they missed out on other customers.

This room will rent itself, high floor ocean view great location, reasonable price. So I'm pretty sure ( not certain) that they won't lose any money as they still have time to rent it to a new customer.

Was it legal to keep my 1 month deposit?

Where can I meet a nice girl who's whole family tragically died in an accident. No more family drama.

Dealing with inlaws sucks ????

If a friend back home ships me something in it's original packed box, older gear, will Thailand customs want to charge an import fee or tax it?

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Insurance is a racket, the money spent on premiums and I could pay for the lost items several times over. No thanks.

Increase security, check. 

Dear thief, please come back again, I'm ready ????

If you lived in a house where you had a thief breakin while you were sleeping. Would you stay in that house or area or would you move?

Having a hard time , going between being pissed off, sad, violated etc. 

Feeling like I'm being blamed, like I brought crime to the neighborhood, but nobody knows that I live here, no other foreigners. Also this has me doubting my longtime GF of 3 years. If somehow she had a "friend" involved. Highly doubtful but these are the thoughts that can enter your mind when you are trying to make sense of a bad situation.

Every town and province is different. Just curious how is it here in Hua Hin?

I see a good number of Thais riding without helmets as usual in Thailand. And a couple of Farang here and there without a helmet. 

Do the police actively have checkpoints to check helmets and license etc as I've seen elsewhere?

What is the going rate for the extra service? ;);)

Actually a serious question as I don't want to get hit with the stupid noobie pricing.

Thanks

Today I had the appalling experience of trying to get a residence certificate.

Went the week before Songkran and waited only to be told they couldn't do it due to computer issues? MS word not working? ????

They told a few hundred others all to come back on the 19th. Covid restrictions ensue, CCSA restricts gatherings of 50 or more, but it's ok to stack as many as you can in the immigration offices?

Then we all wait in the early hours to try to get it done, to be told to come back at 14:00 to pick it up. Well then we show up at 14:00 to be told get back in line to go inside to the window. They had about 20-30 of us all stacked in front of window 9 to pick up from the AM, then they told everyone to go outside to wait finally, and brought out the lot to hand out with the numbers given in the AM. Totally unorganized chaos.

Anyway rant over. Serves me right for showing up the day after a long holiday week. As the Thais say 55555

How will jomtien immigration deal with new covid restrictions? I went the week before songkran for a residence certificate and they said they couldn't do it due to computer problems. They said come back on the 19th , but I wonder if it will be possible, you have to love the unknowns of immigration. Keeps you guessing.

Miami has poor water quality, high crime and overpriced real estate. I'd say they're almost there already.

9 hours ago, thailanddogerator said:

not enough tourists to make money

Yep, those test kits aren't free either, they need a large number to catch a few positives to extort

On 2/5/2021 at 4:11 PM, HAPPYNUFF said:

He tells me the dealer  had lots    in similar  condition, price range.

Which dealer? I'll be in Pattaya soon and will be shopping bikes

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I have a camera for the bike as well that includes a rear camera above my license plate

This sounds like a great idea to me.

Just now, tinca tinca said:

so how did i KNOW what you had........????

I wasn't trying to say you should have known that, sorry for any misunderstanding.

1 minute ago, Surelynot said:

Took a while for it to dawn on me for sure........what a criminal waste of money...

I'm glad to be talking this out with everyone here. I think you just saved me a lot of money.

I had also been thinking after selling 2 cars back home to move here and how nice it is to be free of the expense of owning a vehicle. I was just thinking it would be nice to have when needed.

But after this discussion I'm thinking about just rentals. And now looking around , the rental prices are quiet reasonable. Whew major expense averted.

I do like the idea of having a small motorbike as an alternative.

11 minutes ago, tinca tinca said:

if you NO d/l then how can you drive vehicle legally?????!!!!!!

I have a valid DL from my home country and an International driving permit, but I wish to get the Thai DL since I plan to stay in Thailand long term.

13 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

In order to obtain a COR in Bangkok you would need to done a 90 day report.

Is this the same for Jomtien? If I'm on a new retirement visa, do I need to wait 90 days before I can get a residence certificate?

I know now I will need a residence certificate for both the drivers license and to purchase a new or used car. But I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask those who have done this before.

1. Can the same Residence certificate be used for both?

2. Which would you get first , the DL or the car?

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

required to REGISTER a new vehicle...not to buy it.

This is Thailand ,if the stealership wants to say it's required then it's required. Every dealership I've spoken with , that certifies the used car, wants the certificate. ????

1 minute ago, Peterw42 said:

That is simply not true, a res cert IS required to buy/sell a vehicle in thailand. Always has been

So back to the my other question , if I get my certificate from Jomtien, will they accept it in Bangkok?

I've heard of some things being province specific

1 minute ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

There is no residence certificate required to buy or register a vehicle.

Really, that is not what I was told. I have been told I need a work permit or a residence certificate.

Am I confusing this with something else? So many different requirements it's hard to keep them all straight.