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 The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) aims to offer “city bubble” and activity-based travel agreement in “sandbox” areas, to ease quarantine requirements both in Thailand and in the visitor’s home country.

Maybe we can bring a letter from our tourism authority as well to ease quarantine requirements in Thailand.  No more 14 days.

The TAT has a good idea here, if they just used it in a mirror.

There are two Line groups, maybe more, which are for property in Pattaya

RealEstateInPattaya

Houses For Sale

I can invite you to join if you PM me.

Hundreds of agents and owners put their properties here for rent and sale.

If you are able to go with him to the bank and get the balance on his loan.  Then go together with him to the land office and the bank, pay the bank the balance and then have the house transferred to your wife's name and get a mortgage from the owner for the six years.  This way, he could go bankrupt, or die or anything else, it is still your wife's house.  For him, he still has good leverage if you default, as he can easily go to court and then go to the auction house and use the mortgage lien to buy the house back.   

Best of luck.

I am against the government (tax-payers) financing stadiums. Why? In my home country - the USA, sports teams rent the use of tax-payer built stadiums for: Football: 8 times per year; Basketball: 41 times per year; Baseball: 81 times per year. These are all different stadiums, so the maximum usage is for baseball. The clubs all claim that the city needs a stadium for their sort and that their team actuall brings in revenue to the city that far exces the cost of the stadium. That has been proven to be wrong i the US, and I am sure thatit is wrong in Thailand. Building a sports stadium when girls canot go to school after 6th grade is shameful.

If you have a chance, read the book entitled, "Sex Slaves" by Louise Brown. In it, (I believe even on the back of the front cover) she proves with convincing evidence that pedophilia is predominately an Asian issue in Asia and that the number of pedophile tourists is minute compared to the number of locals having sex with minors, whether in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. I agree wholeheartedly that the foreigners should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.... and then some, but to point their fingers at foriegners being the creators of this problem is once agin, "Thais avoiding responsibility." And, if as one of the writers stated, 'People come to Thailand for its wonderful culture and traditions' was accurate, then what is so wonderful about a culture that creates a system of poverty that has children on the street. If they want wonderful, they should look at Singapore. It takes effort, responsibility and dilligence to make wonderful. Poverty is cultural.

Speculating on currencies like the Baht is called "Exotics." Generally, you would need a rather substantial account at a brokerage house to do this. It is cheap and easy to do the same currency speculation on "majors" (dollar, pound-cable, Euro, Swiss, Yen). I was once quoted 250,000 dollars to start an account speculation on the baht. Too much for me to use for speculating.

If you want to speculate on currencies, be extremely conservative. This means only bet 10 to 1 at the most. Also, I believe it would be in your interest to bet against the dollar for the short-term. Look at the tables over the past couple of years of the dollar versus the Yen, Euro, Gold, Euro, and other European currencies. Also, think about selling the Mexican peso, although it is an exotic, it might be easier to work with than the Baht.

http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/plot.html

The Baht has had a good run versus the dollar for a while. From 44 to the present 39.8

But, since GW 2 took over in the White House, most of the world's currencies ex-Mexico have had a field day against the dollar. So, the Baht has actually dropped against these currencies over the past two years.

The Government here is supposed to keep the currency stable on a trade-weighted and intestment-weighted basis. I do not know the current trade-weights or invest-weights of the Euro countries, the non-Euro European countries, Japan, etc., but those countries have not changed their trade numbers versus the US, with Thailand anything near the amout that their currencies have changed.

The country is not suffering a trade gap...like the US, nor is it currently bathing in short-term foreign debt(although there is a lot of foreign money in the stock market- like mine). I do not see any current reason for the baht to fall against the dollar. It has the advantage of having fallen much of the way with the dollar for quite some time now.