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Except JT & the usual suspects here 555

Talk about Pot/Kettle Black 555 Coming off 4 years of the most toxic misinformation USA has ever known PS: Those of us actually living in the USA are Lovin’ Every Minute of the new transparent Admin ...Thank You 😉

555 your such a funny poster to read daily your fear mongering sky is falling rhetoric Like some of the mods have already said why do you worry so much? What can you change with all of this nonsense? Especially someone like you who have not even lived in the USA for how many decades? Why stress yourself daily in this way? It is not good for your health mental or physical Go outside enjoy life look at the sky eat a nice meal...LIVE while your alive

555 Say's the guy who was calling Hillary & Kamala madame President & telling everyone to get used to it because its a done deal. I guess some folks definition of clueless is different 🤔

To be honest I never thought about that but your probably right. I just thought it was a good video especially calming folks against what he terms tax pimps who should not even be allowed to work in Thailand & probably don't "legally" From the start it was these types fanning the fear mongering flames before anything official is even released

The best video on this whole subject yet!

I wonder if you might just get a International Drivers Permit/License Especially if you also have a license from your home country. They are good for 1 year although I *think* only 90 days continuous? But if your the type that comes & goes may be fine for you Although I am not aware of any type of visa in hand being required you never know with Thailand....

Exactly ! I was always amazed at Thai's in other countries opening Thai restaurants then ripping off their fellow Thai's by employing them at sub min wage etc. This is no different...A bunch of Falangs open a tax business in Thailand & try to rip off other Falangs with fear mongering. At this point this is all it is fear mongering. If & when the RD department ever makes all of this mud clear then these guys should be saying such things

555 As we all know what one Imm office states become a royal decree

That is a pretty funny comment. Yes they cannot really check their own people as most are self employed there is no way to check them. But, to say "how in the hell are they going to monitor expats" ?? Well that is very easy isn't it? Expats actually need to check in with the government & ask for permission to stay. If/When they make this part of that permission well then you will have a decision to make. Comply & prove or leave

It is probably fine either way but......There is an old saying for precious metals that goes.... "IF YOU DON’T HOLD IT THEN YOU DON’T OWN IT" Many reasons why but the original reason for holding metals is many don't trust paper (fiat currency etc etc) so why would someone want a certificate. Secondly many claims of companies that supposedly hold things leasing them out for various reasons. But in your case your using gold as a hedge & trying to beat inflation or better the 2% bank rates so again probably fine for you in any case

Yeah I have really been tossing this scenario around a lot lately. While the rent income would be nice... these days you need to factor in as you say possibly a management company fee, then the increased property taxes since it is no longer your primary residence but a rental. This in our case can be 10x as much property taxes per year compared to what we pay now. Which would basically kill 2 months rental income. Lastly the increased homeowner insurance because it goes up as landlord insurance vs primary homeowner insurance. As you say could sell & invest. I have looked into the US Treasury Notes for a term of 2, 3, 5, 7, or 10 years. Safe & at the end of the day at current 4.25% rates the interest on home sale would not be much different than rental income after expenses + zero headache. Of course there is no guarantee for rates in the future but you can lock in 10 years worth on the notes

Perhaps you should write your congressman or senator ? Oh wait you don't have one as you don't live in the USA nor have you lived there in decades right? Yet you want to decide how the cake that you need not eat is baked right? You want to decide what the families of the murdered victims should be happy/protected with right? Lastly about your protected by life imprisonment comment...how about you put your money where you situational ethics are & donate your SS to help pay for the life incarcerations of these murderers? Yeah didn't think so.....next

They go even further now with things like this app someone developed to track politicians stock trades. https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy Pelosi-P000197

You know it is funny but so many actually believe this. 😉