PaddyThai

Thank you Jenny. In my experience the value of Native speakers is that they give Thais an opportunity to practice what they have learnt since starting school. Schools do not necessarily hire Native speakers to formally teach English. They desperately need to practice the language with a native speaker and opinion a young person of similar age to the students has more potential than an older person with a BA in education. 

I do agree that she would need some training in actually helping a class of young people to practice speaking English

Thanks for the replies. I am thinking she might be better off initially getting work in one of the Rajaphat colleges upcountry which often provide accommodation. She should befriend the students and have a bit of a social life in an area less intense than Bangkok or other Cities. She might teach privately as well and may move to a City once she's aclimatised.
I am now also looking at arranging for her to take up a volunteer teaching position where the organisation would take care of her initial needs and she might teach privately for cash flow. 

My 19 y.o. daughter has just finished High school here in Ireland and would like to work for a year before going to college. She has a Iris (European) passport and a Thai passport. One option she is considering is doing a Cambridge TEFL course at University here and then going to teach in Thailand for a year. 
She should not have any problems with visas or Work Permit but I wonder are we missing something here.
I should mention that I taught English in Thailand for many years about 20 years ago and married a Thai lady :)

I would be interested to hear your views.
Thanks

I realize this topic is 2 years old but wondering what farm land is selling for since this topic started. Has it continued to go up in price or has it collapsed.
My wife owns about 30 rai of good farmland with simple house, electricity, well water and a pond which is about 200 sq; metres and about 2m deep. Land is about 5km form Chumpae town and about 1km off the main road.
She is hoping to sell

Unusual topic but my wife tells me that because the route of this international High speed rail link is no longer going close to Chumphae, Khon Kaen  the value of our (her) farmland will have halved.
This makes no sense to me as train would likely not stop anywhere but Bangkok is even there. Any land would likely be a compulsory purchase order from Government.

Any thoughts

Selling 27 rai of farmland (Full Chanote)  including very large and deep fish pond (spent 250,000 to deepen and expand pond and build up edges to save fish from loss during flooding, Large quantity of mangoe banana, Tamarine and other hardwood trees, Basic house on stilts with well water and electricity, Canal adjacent land for irrigation, dirt road access from main road, which is 20 km from Chumphae. 

Sister in-law is telling me many locals interested and should get in region of 500k a rai.

Thanks for all the replies.

I was not expecting so much help and advice, much appreciated.

I expect accounts are closed and not worth re-opening.

I will likely let my Thai wife open a new account and use that.

Thanks again 

My Thai wife, daughter and I left Thailand about 20 years ago to move to Europe where we all still live.

I never closed my Banks accounts with;

Thai Farmers Bank

Siam Commercial Bank

and

Bangkok Bank.

Because we plan to sell some land, I wondered could I, easily, re-activate these accounts so as to be able to lodge the large sale price into them and then withdraw using ATM from Europe or some such arrangement.

I don't expect too many people will have knowledge or experience of doing this but I thought I'd chance asking :)

I am also interested in this topic. 

I understand there are usually people who can act as agents for a sellers fee and will contact potential buyers directly but this seems to limit potential buyers to locals or those withing a small social circle.

There must be suitable Web pages for selling farmland

I looked at the Cash  Passport web site and it is worth reading for those who, like me, want to move cash out of Thailand effortlessly. They charge for the service as does everyone providing alternative services but I can see a lot of advantages. 

Thanks for replies.

I didn't have time to write more detailed post, apologies.

Looking at Chumphae, Khon Kaen, Isaan or

Chaiyaphum, Isaan.

Farm land in rural location.

I will look at the sites posted above,

Thanks

Can someone recommend agent

The restrictions on sending money abroad on this thread refer to foreigners in Thailand.

I wonder if a foreigner's Thai wife could use her bank account to transfer money on-line overseas to her husband's bank account, her own overseas bank account (if she had one) or indeed anyone else without as much restrictions

Anyone know if my wife would need to attend court to get squatter removed, or would solicitor represent her himself.

Would like to thank everyone who went to the trouble of offering advice and information.

Will post feedback from lawyer/solicitor once known.

Wife has been informed that squatter will not leave under any circumstances. even if he were paid hundreds of thousands of baht. He insists my wife cannot get him out.

This has me worried and I have advised my wife to get a lawyer immediately.

Not sure who has paid last two years property tax but have urged my wife to pay it asap.

Wondering can divorce be registered at any District Office (Amphur) or does it have to be where the couple were married.

The land has Chanoot title deeds

UPDATE

For anyone interested my wife has now decided that she would be better off keeping the property as the income from rice, fruit, fish helps her sister survive. If she sells the farm she would end up sending money to sister every month. If she keeps farm then her sister has food and some income from selling rice. her sister would lease land to locals and get paid in produce, as is the custom.

I am happy with this as I expect land prices to increase over next 5 to 10 years.

My wife plans to pay squatter 100,000 as compensation for him now having to move out. I do not agree with this for a variety of reasons but admit that paying him 50,000 might save a lot of hassle and legal fees.

Whoever pays the property taxes is the legal owner of the land, case closed.

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With respect, that doesn't make any sense.

A person might leave his farm to go and work in Bkk and end up staying there for years. How would he know that someone had been paying the small amount of land tax in order to get ownership of the property

Agree with last two posters.

I have won and lost playing the stock market but never felt secure with just paper wealth.

Decided about 13 years ago to plant trees on one of, my wife's, farms and watch them grow every year. we did not need an immediate income from the land and were happy to let the trees grow and eventually produce fruit. The local old people go to one of, my wife;s, farms to collect firewood and mushrooms.

Food prices worldwide are going up. the materialistic consumerist society is shaking at it;s foundations. There are few if any solid investments. I would prefer to have rice, fruit, vegies and fish than bars of gold when the sh++it hits the fan.

Thanks for replies.

Originally my wife was happy to let the 2nd husband of her mother live on the farm for the rest of his life. His family, unfortunately, have moved into the house/farm and have put a lock on the gate of the fenced property. My wife's sister cannot access the land. They have not given a portion of the rice to my sister in-law as agreed and have sold her rice share. He has made it clear to my wife that something bad will happen to her sister if we try to evict him. He said this even though my wife never mentioned evicting him. We would have been happy to leave him there but his, and his families behaviour, is not good.

I am not sure what the legal situation is. He lived with my wife's mother on the farm for about 10 years. He has stayed there for 3 years thereafter.

Many people in the local village are eager to buy the land, and several Chineese from local town. we would prefer to sell to my wife's cousin even at a lower price.

The prospective purchasers are not too concerned about the possible squatter problem.

Take a page out of Chuwit's playbook- hammer time!

Have no idea what you mean

For anyone interested, we have decided to sell.

Making good profit on 15 year investment.

My wife bought some land in several parts of Thailand 10 and 15 years ago. We spent money on one of the farms and developed the fish ponds, planted fruit trees, fencing and built a small farm house.

We have created an oasis of green productive land in the midle of Isaan. My mother-in law and her family benefited from living on the farm and we did not need to send her money for day to day living.

The land is now for sale and we have been offered 3.5 times what we paid for and spent on developing the land.

With world food prices on the rise I would say we could leave the property and sell it in a few years when it will have increased in price more.

I cannot think of too many better investments ion todays turbulent times. I have owned and lost lots in paper investments and feel good about developing property and making an honest profit.

I would be careful about allowing relatives to live on land as they could claim squatters rights if you were gone for over 10 years.