Adumbration

It is not an RTP issue. It is a Thai male issue.

I received an email today from my Thai broker confirming this. Your thoughts please.

This is what proper acting looks like:

Rivers of Gold arriving for Thai IOs. These thirty somethings will not have unlimited funds and will have to work to get by. They will not have workpermits but not to worry Russians are all to familiar with brown paper bags. They are not heading to Phuket because it is a holiday destination. They are heading there because they think they will get work.

Well then, if true he has taken the title long held by Martin Bryant.

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Reuters is reporting that he actually entered the locked room where the kids were sleeping and stabbed them all to death. How frightening for the little mites.

Good job, well done. Can't understand why expats would pay a couple of million for a 25m2 condo for millions of baht. My garage is going to be bigger than that. Sure I do not have my name on the Chanote, but I do have a life usufruct. And if I need to walk I will only lose a few hundred thousand, which I have already recovered in saved rent.

You could also build it for under 300K. Just substitute the cermanic tile with "Cut Mun" or polished concrete finish and then top coat it with TOA polyurethane floor paint. Cheap, durable, and not problems with cracked or poorly laid tiles. It is also fashionable at the moment. No need to spend a fortune on fittings, it is over capitalisation anyway, I bought my toilets for 2100 baht each.

Read my first post.

I ended up doing all my tiling myself. I got several Thais in to start but each one was an imbecile. I had to watch them so closely it was just as easy to do the job myself. My GF had no work at the time due to covid so he was mixing up the tile glue for me. I did a good job too, if I do say so myself. I have had a couple of local Thai tradesmen come to take photos. I screed the bathroom floor very accurately so that I could lay whole 400mm tiles sloping into a triangle corner drain. I had to cut two tile exactly in half diagonally...not easy by hand with a grinder. Thais here had never seen that. Made my GF very happy. She refers to it as her 5 star bathroom. The plumbing is already in, and the slab for the second bathroom out the back. I am just going to render that in polished concrete finish and then paint it with TOA cement floor finish. It will be the boy's bathroom where I can rinse off my fishing, diving and surf gear.

I will have to report you to the mods for altering the spelling in my post to make me look bad.

This is just a sad story. I hope this chap is now in a better place.

Yeah. Alcohol would never ever be legalised if it was invented this year.

No space for pig farms....and they are muslim. Kids visit regularly. No dramas at all. The neighbors are actually more fearful that I will have kids with my GF and they will have to deal with a crying baby. Future is never certain in Thailand. That is why I am happy my house is so cheap. I can walk out the door tomorrow and still be ahead in terms of saved rent (and I have only been here 18 or so months.) We are very close to a beautiful beach that has lots of pine trees and a parking area. If kids want to make noise they go down there to party. In fact it is deathly quiet here every night come 8 or 9 pm. All of my neighbors are up at dawn to pray.

Looks like a nice block. Is it a dirt road? Also how much is the land value. I could build that house for circa 350K.

No. But you used to be able to get one to LOOK for a condo. When I first retired here I was too young to qualify for a non O. I applied at the Thai embassy in Brisbane for a 12 month multi entry B visa. I got a signed letter from my CPA stating that I had 1.2M AUD cash in the bank and no outstanding debts. I wrote a letter that I wanted to look for realestate and businesses to buy in Thailand. CPA's letter, my letter, and copies of my passport were the only documents I submitted with my application. I recall I did a border run to the Andaman casino just before my visa expired and then got stamped back in with another 90 days. So the visa was good for almost 15 months as I recall.

You guys just don't get it. You still think an election will decide who is the next pm. It is already decided...and it is Anutin. Just google some old photos online and you will see who he used to hang out with as a lad. That will also shed light on why he is a successful businessman.

Very. The owner was a wealthy Thai business man with prawn farms and other businesses loosely connected to tourism. He had a cash flow crisis at the start of the lockdowns and needed to sell. I low balled him and he accepted. One of the best things to ever happen for me. I speak fluent Thai and learned about the property from (one of my now neighbors) who was selling fish at the market.

I bought the house I am sitting in right now during covid lockdowns. It is a little rendered brick split level detached house on a block with full red Chanote title. It is in a little no through soi that is lined with flowers. My neighbors on both sides are elderly and very respectful and quiet. Jungle across the street in front of the house. Huge ornate plant nusery out the back with distant view to the mountains. No flooding or drainage issues. Newly laid cement road for our soi just before I bought the house. Town water is very good pressure and very clean as comes from a huge nearby lake that is surrounded by jungle not development. Very stable electrical supply. In the last 18 months only had one or two extended blackouts (not more than an hour). I have extended out the back to add an outdoor kitchen, and a second bathroom and an attrium that sits over the top of the septic and greywater tanks which I dug out and replaced. I am about three minutes from a stunning west coast beach. There is an estuary nearby that runs out into the sea. I have my fishing boats parked there. The surrounding villagers are tight knit and about 60/40 muslim to buddist. I paid 270K baht for the house with the Vendor also paying all of the taxes and transfer costs on the sale. The property is in my long term GFs name and I have a life usufruct in my name stamped on the back (that cost 75 baht at the land office).

You also need to work out how you are going to top up your phone account whilst abroad...If it is not bill paid....

Hmmm I wonder how the blokes who are just finishing up work at the same age and wanting to have a few golden years think about your outlook. For the record, I too am in your camp, I retired at 45. I have a incurable chronic genetic blood disease and a host of other tangential health issues. But knowing my luck I will live to 98 and be flat broke for 25 years.