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I have a potential buyer for my Jomtien condo and might not be able to physically be there for the closing. My real estate agent recommended a lawyer they use who could draw up Power of Attorney papers to represent me for closing for THB20,000. Is that a reasonable fee for such a service? I'd especially like to hear from anybody in the Pattaya area who has done the P.O.A. thing within the past few years to hear how easy/smooth the process is and, of course, how much you paid. (Mods: Can you please keep this in the Pattaya section and not move it to the Real Estate section? I only want to hear about Pattaya/Jomtien, not Chiang Rai, Hat Yai or Bangkok...)

I remember reading an account where a couple was have "vocal" sex and somehow triggered the device to record and send it to her parents. 😱 🤣🤣🤣

So, if we rent to a foreigner, we are considered to be "harboring" them?

Jeez. Now a 60 year old driver is considered elderly.

With a mob of 50 officers, I would guess they could only check on one cluster of folks on the beach. All the rest would flee when they saw that down the beach.

I was in Jomtien for the entire month of September, and every day weather.com showed rain, rain, rain every day, sometimes all day. There were three very brief showers the entire 30 days. So, for Pattaya residents, that "sudden storm" is actually newsworthy. For the rest of the world, or even the rest of Thailand, not so much.

What kind of camera did he use that resulted in those black specks running from top to bottom?

How would that work? The provincial administration doesn't schedule flights to/from Hua Hin, airlines do. Would the government offer subsidies for certain routes that the survey indicates are wanted?

Is he the fall guy, or is he negotiating for amnesty in exchange for damning testimony against his boss? I could see it happening either way.

Perhaps nobody has ever before ordered Grab from a Pattaya/Jomtien condo, but I'll try again:

I'm not sure what their criteria are for "random people". A uniformed Grab driver with an order displaying my name & room number should be permitted to sign-in and enter, no? They permit PEA, True, 3BB uniformed workers into the building. They also have permitted hotmeals2u.com and Pizza Company delivery people up to my room for deliveries.

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What problems am I asking for by expecting them to deliver to my door?

I used Grab food delivery tonight for the first time. The driver refused to enter my condo building, much less come up to my floor and ring my door bell. Is that normal? I've used hotmeals2u.com several times this month, and also had a pizza from Pizza Company delivered, and they all came up to my floor and rang my door bell, hence my question.

So. Who was the jerk?

Last week I went to the Thipmanee (TMN) cable office to sign up for fibre optic internet service at around 1130am. The "technicians" were at my condo by 200pm the same day. By 230pm I had working TMN internet service. [edited to add:] After I posted, I realized I was in the Bangkok sub-forum. My TMN experience was in the Pattaya area.

The linked article says he is 34 and has been the village headman for nine years, so he became the village headman at 25. Seems young, no? How are these village heads chosen? Is it by direct election of the citizens, or appointment by someone? If the latter, who is that someone?

(Quoted from article linked in OP.) That will be a nice improvement. Glad to see the word "eliminate" instead of "reduce."

What airline flies from Bangkok (BKK or DMK) to UTP?

Was able to get everything done at the Chaiyapruek location this morning, but the (very nice) lady there spoke no English so we had to transact everything via a third English-speaking person on speakerphone. I'm not complaining, but wondering if any of the other locations have English-speaking staff in case I need to go in for any reason in the future.

Dear heavens, I must have had a senior moment. I only saw the first two locations on that page. You mean I didn't think to scroll down? Doh. Thanks. That's probably the closest one to me. Thanks,. That will be my Plan A, if for any reason things don't work out on Soi Chaiyapruek. (You never know... ????)

Where are the current customer-facing locations for TMN Cable? I get different results on Google Maps, Google Earth and the TMN web site. It looks like there are locations in Kasetsin & on Chaiyapruek (near Baan Suan Lalana) but neither of them appear on the TMN web site. Since I'll be using Grab or moto-sai (depending on how nearby it is) I want to be sure there's actually a TMN site where it appears one should be. Before I left Thailand in 2020, I used to go to a location at the intersection of Pattaya Klang & Sukhumvit, but it looks like there's no longer a TMN place there? [edited to add:] In the Grab app, I just searched for TMN, and it shows that location at Pattaya Klang & Sukhumvit, so is there still a shop there?

Grumpy? Who, me? Why, you young whippersnapper... ????

Well, it took longer than I expected for the holier-than-thou never-use-a-dryer crowd to arrive, but they're here now. Drying in the sun takes an hour. Let me guess: you all live in houses? And, you didn't consider that I might live in a condo and do laundry?