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The Yenjit offices usually have a very good rate

and will not annoy you because you have small notes or notes far to be new.

Yenjit site: http://www.yjpattayaexchange.com/4.html

Visit their Galery to see their offices in Walking Street, Soi Buakhao, Pattaya Klang, Jomtien ...

Use baht bus

No one making you use the taxi

Wrong. Baht bus are available on a few routes only.

Outside these routes you need to rent them as "private taxi"

and 300 baht seems to be their minimum first quote nowadays...

There's more to do than just go to bars!

Give your liver & kidneys a holiday!!

Water & fruits juice have never hurt them.... AFAIK

A chanote does not give a legal address,

a chanote is issued by the Land Office and is the same as a deed in the West.

They ask for the Chanote as it's the only document that can prove you are the owner of this condo unit.

The Blue Book for a farang owned condo unit is a useless document as there is nowhere your name in it.

They should theoretically stay closed up to midnight

but at 9pm last night many agogos were preparing to open at 11pm or even 10pm

PS: Could be a good idea to fill at the same time

the form to set direct debit on your bank account.

So good to never have to worry again about paying electricity bills.

For a condo? Shouldn't I just need the condo deed?

No Blue Book. Just bring your Passport and your Chanote.

You will need 1 copy of each page of the Chanote. You can make the copies on place.

Why would that mean there would be "a lot there?"

If they all paid on time would that mean there'd be fewer people paying their bills?

If they pay in time, they usually make in in one of hundred of 7/11 or other payment places.

my 300k gives me 40-60k a month on SET..

Uh ???

50k on 300k is a 16+% profit in 1 month!

It would mean you double your initial capital in less than 5 months

and that you multiply it by more than 6 in on year (+500%!) ...

So can you please confirm that your capital in SET

is now (~1 year later) about 2 millions baht ?...

Bouncing off 34.95 currently.......Suspect when it breaks through we go to 36 fairly quickly

35B/$ limit broken today

Dont know which way you are going, Alangkarn turn off to Chaiyapruek crossroads is 3Km.

My bad. I made confusion between Chaiyapruk and another street

Looking at Google Maps, it's just 3.6 km north of Alangkarn

Sent 2 mill from thailand to australia in 2013 bank to bank, from memory kasikorn bank (central festival shopping mall pattaya) would only let me send around 1 mill baht per transaction and charged around 1000 baht each time, sent the other mill a few weeks after the first. Overall had no problem with Kasi even though i thought i would encounter some problem.

I send back about $40'000 to Europe 3 years ago (so about 1.2? million baht) from Kasikorn Pattaya near Tukcom.

It took me more than 3 hours before they accept to transfer it, and I had to return home get more documents about my bank operation. In fact they didn't had the power/right to do it and they had to fax many document to someone in Kasikorn Bangkok...

I will have next time to ask precisely what are their rules and the ceiling of wires they can accept without Bangkok authorisation

the surface of the northbound road from about opposite Alangkarn going north towards Chaiyapruk is being removed for resurfacing.

It must be a huge works area; Alangkarn is at about 10 km from Chaiyapruk !

You should have put "English breakfast" in the title

Why. Is omelet and salad an english breakfast, if so i have been going wrong all these years by not living in England.

I think it's for breakfast same as for language:

Americans, Australians,.... speak "English"

Americans, Australians,.... eat "English" breakfast (or alike)

My point was that in most countries you will not get omelette, beacon or sausage for breakfast

You should have put "English breakfast" in the title

Hi sdlo.

If you have a bank account in Bangkok Bank then register with Bualuang Securities http://www.bualuang.co.th/en/index.php then Log in via http://we06.settrade.com/bls/en/ Play the market via your desktop or the Streaming app on your Ipad or Iphone. I've been using this for over a year now.

I have a friend who uses that too: their site/software using settrade is just a nightmare !

I had to help him many times because this site looks like it is 10 years old and never got any update. It's not working on FireFox and not displaying correctly on recent versions of IE; It requires an obsolete version of Java Runtime (jre-6u21?) that Windows7 warned regularly to use, but any update makes impossible to display the (bad) graphics; etc.

I know that Bualuang now offers an other tool, Aspen, and recently added Streaming and iAlgo.

Which one do you use?

Which one those who trade SET would recommend?

Thanks

At any petrol station, the same as in every civilized country in the world.

I don't know for Jomtien specifically, but around Pattaya many/most Petrol Stations

do *not* have an air machine, or at least an air machine that works

The main activity of the countless little garages is repairing flat tires !

So they do have air and price is 5 baht for a bike.

// how about telling that to the people that have no choice but to use Nong Khai for their extensions who may have to leave Thailand and their homes and families because they cannot fulfil, to quote you "their rogue style of enforcement".

Seriously...

Nobody will have to leave even if this rules applies to the whole Thailand.

All what you need to stay in fact is a bit more of 65'000 baht:

- you send it to your Thai bank Month 1

- you take it and send it back to you home country account

- you send it to your Thai bank Month 2

- etc.

You don't need to have 12x65'000 baht, just to use the same 65'000 every month

$2900 per year to live here on a semi-permanent basis when 99% of expats don't pay any income tax - biggest bargain of all time! What would your tax bill be back home?

1- $2900 ? Why bring a foreign currency in this discussion ? To force most members to make conversions ?

2- I doubt a lot about this 99%! Many expats still have to pay income tax in their home country. In my case I would have to prove I pay taxes in Thailand to not have to pay them in my country.

I can get a one-year visa for approximately 6,600 baht. Am I missing something in the translation?

Are you in their target category?

I mean: below 50, not married to a Thai, not working

If so, what kind of one-year visa can you get?

There are some new procedures in place at Jomtien immigration for renewing the retirement visa: ...

Sorry Rimmer but I find your post very confusing.

You don't need a book (yellow or blue) to get an Extension with reason being Retirement

It may be needed for a few persons, but for most all they need is

an utility bill (Internet, Electricity,...) with their name and address.

Note: I made my Extension last month in Jomtien.

The only way to transport an non-airworthy aircraft these days is to disassemble it.

Really?

Get into the baht bus, get off close to your destination, pay the cost and walk away.

Payment is at the station, before the bahtbus drive from it. At least still like that 3 weeks ago.

If that is too difficult, walk across the road and get a regular baht bus, you may have to change/get another one, but you will have shown them.............

Good luck with that. Very few bahtbus driving here,

and as they just quit their station they are usually full and will not stop there, even for you

A friend has removed all the screens from his 10th floor condo.

I am at a 15th floor and removed these ugly screens when I bought the place.

I like to let the window-doors opened in the evening.

It's no problem now and most of time,

but there is a short period during the rain season where 1 or 2 mosquitos

regularly find a way to my condo, so I have one of theses "Zap rackets"

I suspect they arrive from the corridor: stairs or lifts.

Don't forget that Thailand has no building safety regulations and balustrades are often much lower than in Western countries.

// but in Thailand it is 20 cm lower and they miss it and just topple straight over.

They do have safety regulations

and for hotels & condos balustrade height

it's the same value as many European countries.

Last news I had about The Trust South Pattaya was it was due for completion "mid 2015"

So I am not even sure if there are already people living inside today ??