johnnyk

Buyers often first decide where they want to live, for numerous reasons. Rather than relying on numbers concocted by drones in cubicles, check out similar properties in the area. The buyer is looking for the best value for his money. Act accordingly.

Make sure you are at least 50 years old.

Estate agents are always ready and willing to fit suckers, er, buyers with a new set of pink lenses.

Prices in the toilet? No pompem, great buying opportunity. Hurry!

Prices in the sky? No pompem, get in now before they go up even more.

The price is exactly what someone is prepared to pay. P.T. Barnum's spirit lives on.

Thais are notorious for not paying their condo fees. So the building slowly crumbles through lack of money for maintenance, repair and contingency fund. Your "investment" crumbles along with the bricks.

Try

xe.com

- they do money transfers simple and quick - I get regular payments from Canada and Australia to Thailand at exchange rates generally better than the banks and I'm sure the other way would be the same. You know you are going to get crapppped on for exchange rates anyway!

Not sure how easy it is to buy USD here - especially in large amounts. Most high-street exchanges only sell baht.

Or just repeatedly use your Thai ATM card back in the US. You'll get that standard bank rate.

He wants to move $US OUT of Thailand, not in.

Forget western Union. Terrible exchange rate, ridiculous charges.

Paypal doesn't work with Thai banks and is only good up to $8000 anyway. Useless if you want to transfer sums larger than spending money.

The Granola Ghetto.

To get a work permit you must set up a company capitalized at 2 million AND have 4 Thai employees on the books. Don't let them near any money, cleaning and cooking ok.

They will likely be the biggest headache.

If you can manage with just your GF then pay 4 Thais to stay home, just pay their gov't health and pension contributions. Paperwork PITA so hand it over to a bookkeeper.

Boy and Boom, immediately behind the main temple downtown. Walk through the grounds and emerge where Binthabaht joins Poolsuk at the T-junction.

New bikes are 4000/month, older ones 3500.

Manual and auto available.

Bring your passport, they will photocopy on the spot.

Had quite a few first dates in ST rooms but the relationships didn't really jell.

I unravel the belt and buckle up every time. Never had a problem from drivers or ground staff.

Kingly standards have slipped badly.

We need to bring back le roi du soleil, Louis XIV, to reset the proper style.

He owned every inch of France (well worth owning), very fish in every river and every animal in the forest.

And you can enjoy visiting his house at Versailles or his 440-room "hunting lodge" at Chambord.

No point in being King if you can't enjoy it!

HH Immig office is on the canal road, right side going north. Extension is 1900 baht plus pennies for photocopies you may need.

I can buy an interest in all of the land that I want in Thailand. If you think land in Thailand is undervalued buy a Thai Real Estate Investment Trust. Someone can educate me otherwise but I think all Farang can buy a REIT on the SET.

http://www.set.or.th/en/products/listing/criteria_p7.html

A REIT is paper. Holding shares in a REIT is not land ownership and the holder has no influence on how the land is managed. The share certificate doesn't allow the holder to possess or use the land in any way, it is totally indirect.

Someone is comparing Denmark foreign ownership policy to Thailand . again I give up. Denmark along with UK dutch Spain etc were worlds apart from Thailand. Let's stick to point. Thailand needs change even at cost if expats living high on the hog.

Do you really think that the government in Thailand has any way to keep land prices under control? Do you see all of the new construction going on?

Good point. I am trying to work out what is driving all the condo developments???

I'm in kanchanaburi at present. Nice place but many joints empty. Why I see 3 five story developments. Correct me please but this must be from very rich Thai groups same as drives pattaya jomtien etc. Someone please tell me this is foreign driven.

Wash, rinse, spin. Repeat as needed to clean it all. Capisce?

Enough of the Lanna Care sandbox spat, the thread is about banks and falang money.

Go to another branch.

He can walk along the beach all he wants. Nobody is stopping him. Just get on the beach without trespassing, not a difficult concept.

Green Garuda is land deeded to poor people but AFAIK with no right of resale as it has been granted by HM to help poor people in rural areas. The land can't be used for a quick sale to bail out Somchai from gambling debts or whatever.

The Red Garuda is 99.9% safe but the state retains the right to expropriate the land if deemed necessary but are supposed to compensate fair market value.

There is a third, clear no colour Garuda which is absolute 100% airtight land ownership.

Johnnyk please provide links to your information on Green Garuda land papers? Because i believe you are totally wrong.

lannarebirth you wrote that with Green Garuda land papers "has a prohibition from selling for typically 5 years" where did you get this information?

ThaidDown answered the OP question with a great link, here's another

http://www.thailawonline.com/en/property/title-deeds-in-thailand.html

No links, I was told by a Thai neighbour who owns several properties one with green and one with clear, ot hers with red. Not a rice farm lady but university grad living in Norway but my neighbour during holidays.

Its not ideal I know but if you keep each transfer under 50000 USD which is the BOT reporting level there should be no issue. this is the level beyond which your bank needs to ask you for proof of the origin of the funds in Thailand. eg transfer 30000 pounds every day for a few days and you will get the job done. Bangkok Bank suggested I do this once when I was unsure I had all the paperwork.

Can anyone else confirm this?

The suitcase option works in the movies.

If they don't like what they see in the scanner and take a look you can kiss the cash goodbye.

Bright people might want to put it in checked baggage. Sure, why not? And if your luggage busts open

when they toss it around, just blow a kiss.

And please, when someone asks about taking out a million or more sensible replies would be nice. Ten thousand is petty cash, walking-around money. And forget PayPal, small daily limits mean it would take quite a while to take out 1 million+.

They got me near the tessaban and said 400. Isaid, ok just give me the ticket and I'll go pay it. They hemmed and hawed and I asked again for the ticket. Clearly they didn't want to write an official ticket (surprise!) so I offered 200 and no ticket. They jumped at it. Then they asked if I wanted or neded a TGF.

From traffic cops to pimps as fast as you can say "200, no ticket."

What a country!

BTW, I keep the IDP in the bike storage under the seat, that way its always with me. Best place, you only need it while on the bike.