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If you buy a house in Thailand with a mixture of savings and mortgage and then need to sell it soon afterwards, is the entire sales revenue classed as taxable income even though it'll be used to repay the mortgage and replenish the savings?

6 hours ago, NanLaew said:

On my first pile in Pattaya back in the 80's, I had a high wall built but not quite high enough that I couldn't hear the foreign lady renting the townhouse opposite, out on her upstairs balcony on her phone at dawn, yacking loudly for ages. The wall was high enough that she could see our front porch but not the front lawn with mango trees. One early morning, while attending aforesaid lawn and mango trees naked (as you do), my house phone rang and as I wandered slowly back up the steps onto the patio, she had a grand view of my magnificent naked arse and promptly hung up. After that, she never appeared on her front balcony again, ever.

 

Maybe she was Spanish and moved to Hua Hin?

That raises an interesting issue. I have no idea what her kids look like - only what they sound like. I know what she looks like - an obese chainsmoker - because I wanted to identify what and where the south European accent shouting phonecalls were the first few times I heard them.

However, for her to know I'm spending quiet time relaxing on my large raised patio enjoying the breeze and landscape view my garden lacks, she must be keeping an eye on me. 

43 minutes ago, terryq said:

Yeah, that should work.

 

"See officer he's fitted that  light shining directly at my house so he can perv my family day and night"

 

About as nuts as "my daughters like playing in my garden that I'm too lazy to provide any privacy for, and a man's patio overlooks it, so he must be a pedo if he spends time there" train of thought....

4 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

Make sure you don't point any cameras directly at her property.  You could be looked as a peeping Tom. 

I'm thinking of a 500w security spotlight pointing at my fence, which by default is also in the direction of her place.

3 hours ago, pomchop said:

 u could get reported as a pedo, rapist, peeping tom, or worse and end up with all kinds of very messy problems that may require hiring a bunch of lawyers and rest assured u do not want to go down that road.

 

Possibly, but I suspect that the Thai police require hard evidence, not delusional paranoid/schizoid finger-pointing.

48 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

How can you have a garden when living above somebody?

My property is further up the side of a hill so is raised. My garden to the side of the property doesn't really overlook hers but my large patio on the front with fabulous views of the landscape and where I've set up a nice table and chairs to enjoy it does. My entire property is surrounded by wrought iron fencing which my cats can't scale or get through.

Having thought about it more, I detect a complete lack of self awareness in this woman, perhaps due to narcissistic personality disorder.

To ring my doorbell and then shout at me when I'm in my property that I'm a "pervert" and "pedophile" and then when I respond by calling her an "idiot" to act offended and play the victim by shouting "Is that really how to talk to people?" "Is that any way to talk to me, you horrible little man?" shows psychological abnormality.

It would also explain why she feels entitled to shout on her phone in her garden and let her dog roam the neighbourhood while I'm not allowed to spend time on my own patio.

6 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

A hedge won't help if you are living above her, stop peeking and block the view. Keep your cat inside the house too.

My cats stay in my garden. Nothing I've said suggests otherwise. Your other comment is simply vile.

1 hour ago, Sandboxer said:

If your wife is Thai, just have her lodge all sorts of complaints with the police. Basically drown the woman in legal difficulties (pay cops a bit too of course).

 

Dog - leave a bowl of antifreeze in your garden.

Good ideas thanks. But I don't want to harm the dog. Not it's fault that it's stray (and I've never noticed her taking it for a walk - presumably she expects it to do that itself).

9 minutes ago, CecilM said:

Well, as a homeowner I can say that cats doing their business on my property is very unpleasant and stinky.

I don’t want to argue, I’m just saying that if your cats do as she claims, then it’s a good idea to stop them from going to the neighbour’s garden. (Not only to make her claim untrue but also to avoid craziness like people who put up traps/poison/etc.)

The dispute was nothing to do with my cats. She was simply arguing with people on the phone about why her dog isn't allowed to roam around the neighbourhood when cats (in general) can.

2 hours ago, CecilM said:

Can’t do anything about the loud conversations. TiT.

Put up a privacy fence. Or a cheap version, with a few poles and netting.

Put up a chainlink fence to keep the dogs out.

If your cats roam, then she has a valid point though. 

My cats don't roam but there are plenty of others that do in the neighborhood. But even if they did, cats and dogs are very different

- cats aren't aggressive

- cats don't bark

- cats don't leave faeces in the middle of the driveway or lawn

Most people generally tolerate seeing other people's cats in their garden. It's normal. Very few people would want other people's dogs coming into their garden.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Up to you to secure access to your garden, not her.

 

How do you suggest preventing a stray dog from entering a driveway gate when you open it then drive though it?

20 minutes ago, steven100 said:

yeah '     that might work although it might make her even more angry and voice-stress, it's hard to say.   I would just find the agent who rents it to her, and pay him 20k ... make something up and she's gone,   that way he takes on all the risk and she won't even know he was in on it.   

How to find who the agent is?

24 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'd try some security cameras prominently pointed at her garden, with lights at night.

So she feels watched 24/7, and will hopefully move away.

Wouldn't that prove her false point though?

30 minutes ago, steven100 said:

won't work for this nut job ....     she's called him a pedophile and a few other vile names and her daughters won't go out in the garden as he can see over them ...     so your solution will definitely not work in this situation.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm big enough to take the vile insults, but doing it in front of my wife was despicable. That kind of thing can end marriages.

19 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

...but you can keep them out.????

Also..if she's a loon as you claim, have you tried to stand by your gate and shout 'STFU' at her general direction?

Do it several times a day.

It might work.

If you are taken to task for it (unlikely), you can claim you were arguing with your mrs

My garden is very secure, and my cats never leave it. However, her dog is regularly roaming the street outside and bolts in when I open my electric gate to go out.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

So, you'd rather let her put up a high hedge that would block your view than put up a screen that wouldn't block your view.

I look forward to seeing your much better and more successful solution.

Her garden is about three metres below the height of my patio and about 10 metres away beyond the boundary of my property. I could put up a high hedge to block the view of her garden from my higher garden but that won't help with the balcony. In any event, it's her that wants privacy, so she needs to do something constructive about it rather than harass.

5 minutes ago, steven100 said:

I still think this is your easiest and cheapest solution ....  all the risk and chit chat is between her & the agent ..... It'll be the best 20k you've ever spent.    Pay it then no questions asked    ..... she's their friday then gone monday ...

 

 

A straightforward solution which seems like karma to me (and anyway there could well be a clause in her lease about not disturbing the neighbours, which she's already broken), but how to go about finding out who the owner/agent is? This stuff isn't public knowledge as far as I know.

7 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The OP has said she is a foreigner. The probability of her developing HiSo/Mafia connections approaches zero.

TBH I wouldn't know how to go about checking what connections someone has. How can that be done?

1 hour ago, sirineou said:

It's one thing to be "Crazy" it's another thing to accuse you of a crime , and pedophilian non the less. I would call the police on her and if you can afford it get a lawyer and have him send her a A cease and desist letter and inform her that if she does not, you would take legal action. You can even get a restraining order on her.  

Your reputation is the most valuable thing you have!! Who knows who else she tells her nonsense   , about you. 

Indeed. I was tempted to ask her if she wanted my wife to call the police so she could repeat her criminal accusations to them, followed by me filing a defamation complaint, then seeing which of us ended up with a criminal record. My heat of the moment preference was to end the encounter asap though.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

If she is that obsessed, rest assured it will happen again. Be ready when it does.

I'm hoping that she was drunk and is regretful today.

Either that or she can't cope with having lost the house nearby being empty & the related privacy, and has decided to try to harass me into leaving.

26 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Sell and rent.  I never understand people buying here seems more complaints then pleasure.

It was a steal at 5 million. Could rent for 40,000pm once we've finished doing it up, but that was never our plan. Might be soon though if this matter doesn't end.