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Like you I live 90 minutes away and missing a few assemble parts about 10 days later made the trip back to IKEA showed them receipt and items missing on assemble instructions. Walked out within 15 minutes with missing items.

Copies should be okay. Make sure usufruct was recorded on chanote.

29 October 2015 till 28 April 2016

Condo Act means minimum of 3 and maximum of 9 on committee. Your R & R says 5 so you should only have 5 on committee. That number can be changed to something between 3 and 9 at next AGM if majority of owners approve.

Thank you. Can these be 3 new members & 2 old ones, which already served 2 full terms? Or are they excluded and there will be only 3 legal new members.Thank you. MS>

Your R&R states 5 members so if only 3 new owners apply then 2 existing members can apply even though they have already served 2 terms.

The English translation of Condo Act says:

"A member vacating office may be re-appointed but shall not be eligible to hold office exceeding two consecutive terms unless other person cannot be found to hold office".

Condo Act means minimum of 3 and maximum of 9 on committee. Your R & R says 5 so you should only have 5 on committee. That number can be changed to something between 3 and 9 at next AGM if majority of owners approve.

Condo rules and regulations should state number of committee members approved by owners at AGM. If that number is 9 some current members can continue to serve to make up for lack of 9 new volunteers.

Do nothing without condo owners approval.

You also need to keep in mind doing work of type proposed might create problem with condo management since you want to do yourself. Remember some managers tightly control any work done in building so they can generate extra pocket money.

I am buying a small condo (45sqm)

We agreed that the seller would pay 100% of the seller's tax (income tax and sales tax, or something), and we would split the transfer fees 50/50.

The seller went to the land office and we will be using the value that they state.

Which is quite low.

Turns out that the transfer fees amount to less than 100b, and the tax that they were to pay 100% of is about 15k baht.

So I would pay 50 baht, and they would pay 15k baht.

They asked that we change the agreement and make the contract so that we split the tax 50/50 too.

I was fine with that and happy to agree. 7.5k baht each. I was expecting more than that for my 50% of the fees anyway.And they get half their tax paid by me. NO bother. Cheap as peanuts and a steal from my PoV.

I would re-think agreeing to do 50/50 split of all taxes and fees paid at time of transfer.

I do not think the seller has provided correct information because below are transfer cost and what a smart buyer would agree to pay.

Transfer fee rate= 2% of value set by land office and paid by buyer but can be shared

Specific Business Tax rate= 3.3% of value set by land office and paid by seller (only due if seller owned less than 5 years)

Stamp duty rate= 0.5% of value set by land office and paid by seller

Withholding Tax rate= 1% or progressive rate and paid by seller

One rule in buying anything never believe the seller.

Its hard to believe land office asked to change terms of contract to 50/50 on taxes but is more likely something sellers wants after seeing how much he would have to pay under current contract.

The seller told you transfer fee was less than 100 baht but to generate a fee of that amount the land office would have the condo valued at 5,000 baht and that's not likely. The fact the seller now wants you to do 50/50 split on all the fees should tell you something.

A condo valued at just 1 million baht by land office would mean the transfer fee alone would be 20,000 baht. The other fees due at transfer would add another 50,000 baht.

If you really like the condo agree to pay "transfer fee" only and other fees (taxes) due at transfer are his responsibility.

Remember there are many condo's for sale in Pattaya so its a buyers market.

Amorn Electronics in basement of Tucom sells remotes for different air con manufacturers that work with that brand but not others.

I just purchased two remotes labeled for Daikin at Amorn (350 baht each) that look identical to orginals, including color, with exception of one additional button labeled "Powerful" on left side below display. The button changes information on display but does not seem to change anything on air con. Display and other buttons are identical to original Daikin remotes.

Dusit Thani College in Bangkok has Pattaya campus. Its a four year program.

www.dtc.ac.th/en/

I don't think the meeting is legal. Notice to all owners must be done by registered letter so condo can prove letters were sent to all owners. A log sheet generated at Post Office for all registered letters sent must be presented with other necessary forms to register manager and committee at land office. Land office required post office register letter log for our meeting held last July.

I would like to replace my current car with something new in the next couple months. I have no need for a pickup so my choices are another new car or SUV but my preference is a SUV and I've noticed that some come with a CVT (Nissan X-Trail, Honda HR-V and CR-V).

So far I have only driven the Mazda CX 5 and like the ride. I still plan to test drive the Honda HR-V, Nissan X-Trail and Mitsubishi PJ. The other SUV's I have ruled out.

Vehicles I own currently and in the past were conventional type automatics with 150k+ trouble free miles.

Can I expect the same reliability out of vehicle with CVT?

Thanks to all that provided info on current NAS units and where to find.

I ended buying a Synology DS214se which was suited for a novice like me and price was in my range after purchase of two 3TB WD Red NAS drives. After install of drives in NAS unit and connections to router it was ready for use in ten minutes or less with little effort on my part. Speed of unit is not the fastest but neither is my home network which the install software was so nice to point out.

Thanks MJCM for link and I already planned on using WD Red drives.

I want to install NAS box that has 2 to 4 drive bays and will support RAID 1 and 5 on my network without lots of setup required.

If you have experience with current units available in Thailand which ones would you recommend.

Super Lube has 6oz spray can.

OP your post gives the impression you only have wiring that will support DSL service but if building has wired LAN also then go with CAT.

The small condo building I am in has 62 units with wired LAN and we currently have two 30/5mbit fiber lines from CAT connected to dual WAN router configured to load balance between the lines. Rarely problems but any are sorted quickly after a call to CAT and it only cost each condo 150 baht a month.

OP since your 50 years old why not go the retirement extension route if you meet finacial requirements and visit every year.

I had a usufruct on property and house when my wife died. The property was transferred to the person stipulated in wife's will and they were informed by land office they might be new owner but a usufructed existed that gave me total use of that property until my death or both parties agreeded to cancel usufruct.

The will was processed through Thai court before I, as executor, instructed land office to change ownership based on the the will and court order.

Going north on Naklua road between Soi 14/1 and Soi 14 you have Mr. Greg's Cafe. Another place on Naklua is Naklua Kitchen located just before Soi 12.

I've always noticed a sign in Thai being present and as you mentioned a white line through intersection exists for left most lane if sign.

So just to avoid doubt, for retires it would be safer to use the 800,000 savings to obtain the visa rather than declare 65k income per month to obtain it

It makes no difference. If you have the income that is what you should use.

If there is any chance at all that pension income is taxable in Thailand, I,e, the 65k a month, then it most certainly would make a difference as savings, is, the 800k, would be far less likely to be taxable if that money is not declared as a form of income.

In the case of US pension and social security payments the answer is no they are not taxable.

The issue is addressed in the US-Thailand tax agreement Ariticle 20.

Check if your home country has tax treaty with Thailand.

I did my 90 day report at the end of July and upon completion a printed version of my TM 47 was stapled in my passport.  The form included a bar code and next reporting date.  The copies I presented for this 90 day report were handed back and told copies were not needed next time. 

Have you looked at IRS form 2555?

Also read the following link.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Foreign-Housing-Exclusion-or-Deduction-1