TravelerEastWest

Get a lawyer, if the seller is insisting on this, it can't be to your benefit

Thank you.

what title is the land? is it title 5 or Chanote or one of the other 4 titles

if your a foreigner you cant buy the land - so be careful as it will need to be in the wifes name

you can own the house you are going to build but need contracts for this

you need a Will so that if wife dies you can get the land back and then have 12 months to sell it (if you can)

PM me

Thank you all is well.

The land is chanote and we have purchased it and it will go to my children in the future (who are Thai)

No need for me to own the building or land.

Great replies - thank you very much.

So far what I read is that if you invest in lots of concrete and pilings and have a good modern builder who knows what he is doing we can go forwrad without a long wait.

All comments are appreciated!

Quickest safe time to build on rice land that has been filled?

My wife just bought some rice paddy which will be harvested in 2 weeks.

If we fill it a meter high (road level) and flatten it and fill again.

Can we start building right away using modern construction with a good team?

Get a lawyer, if the seller is insisting on this, it can't be to your benefit

Thank you.

My wife bought the land (owned by the seller for 9 years) today and it turned out that being agricultural land we got a discount on the transfer fees.

Including the stamp our half ended up being about .75% (half of 1.5%)

We also used the true purchase price which will save us lots of income tax when we sell the property in around 10 years from now.

Hmm, I never did figure out if they used the appraised value or purchase price.

Maybe I do not correctly understand the transaction and there was no discount from the normal 2.5% instead maybe they used the lower appraisal value?

The amount was reasonable so I didn't worry about to much. In and out of the land office in about 1 and a half hours on a busy day.

Declaring Agriculture When Selling Land - a problem?

About to buy some rice paddy land which we will fill in and build on.

The seller wants to declare the land as agricultural which it is now so that sounds OK.

Will this slow down a building permit or create any other problem?

From my experience they all use the Appraised Value as no one declares the real sale price (as it's always more) as they'll use that if you tell them!

Thank you.

I recently sold my condo and this is what we used: http://lawonline.weebly.com/property-transfer-tax-and-fee.html

The sales price did not enter into it. You use appraised value.

Marty,

Thank you for your post - that is one of the two sites that I looked at. The other being Siam legal.

Good to know that teh appraised value was used - I wonder if all the land offices follow the same rule?

Transfer Tax Land Office Appraised value or sales price?

I have seen a couple of well know law sites in English say that both the stamp tax and transfer tax are based on the Land office's older valuations not the sale price.

Does anyone know the correct way to figure the stamp and transfer payments?

Thank you.

Thanks for the replies.

Is unusual yes.. though at least that means they don't add to the styrofoam tsunami. Guess you could just bring some bags or tupperware boxes and pack it after ordering (or let them pack it; not sure what the issue is.).

Did I say there is an issue?

I thought I just said, it's unusual.

Bloody restaurant, went in and they refused to give food to go, what sort of restaurant is that, I'll never go again............that's an issue.

They certainly have food to go - I often bring food home from there - perhaps as others have guessed they ran out of boxes?

A slight change - not Mae Jo instead the old Sansai area on the road near the post office.

Any thoughts?

Ok, here's my second guess at the restaurant's soi entrance location, about 50m south of Central Chiangmai Memorial hospital on Chang Klan Rd.

The map still is wrong and my directions are accurate and very easy to follow (but your photo is correct.) Although the photo is old as now there are signs at the entrance to the shopping area - not really a soi as you can't get out more like a small strip mall.

I live walking distance to the place - please trust me...

Is this the restaurant's approx location?

The map seems to show central hospitalin teh wrong position so it is hard to say but you are roughly there.

With the Night bazaar at your back go up Chang Klan.

Go past the post office and Central Hospital which will be on the right side of the street.

Just past the hospital you will see a small new shopping center with a KFC.

Directly across from the KFC turn right and go around 100 yards to the back.

I will be building a very simple 2 story concrete building in the Mae Jo area on dry land.

The building will be a simple 2 floor rectangle but we want the foundation plumbing and wiring etc to be done so that the building will last a long time.

My wife will be drawing a rough design which an architect will need to translate into building plans.

Any suggestions for local contractors and architects that are honets and reliable?

My first thoughts are to hire the architect and have him do site visits to supervise construction by an unrelated company - but I am open to suggestions.

I have been to this new restaurant and it is very good.

The husband and wife are the owners and the shorter lady is the cook.

They seem to be delivering now.

It is very easy to find the place directly opposite the new KFC about 100 meters in the back.

They are closed on Sundays and open around 9am.

This place is nothing like the Chinese vegetarian restaurant down the road which serves mostly cold food....

I wonder if composting would solve the problem?

No burning - so clean air

The compost would lower expensive fertilizer needs.

The resulting organic produce would bring higher prices.

is it different in the best country of the world (LOL) USA ... where you have to take student loans $50.000 - $200.000 dollar to get a descent education ???

I think you may be a bit misinformed...

In the United States public school is free. Maybe you are thinking of the fees associated with attending a university.

Public universities are a great bargain in the states. The private schools are expensive but usually only good students get into the really good schools and scholarshipd will often take care of poor students.

Here are the California State University tuition rates:

http://www.calstate.edu/budget/student-fees/mandatory-fees/1213-feeschedules.shtml

Student Type/Units Per Semester Per Quarter Per Academic Year

Undergraduate Programs

6.1 or more $5,472

0 to 6.0 $3,174

Credential Programs 6.1 or more $6,348

0 to 6.0 $3,684

Graduate and Other Post-Baccalaureate Programs

6.1 or more $6,738

0 to 6.0 $3,906

Ratsima,

Wonderful news - I am very happy that all went well.

JRTmedic,

Thanks for the links - slowly America is adding NA to the old style choices.

Dr Eaton is the doctor in Florida that I was thinking about. Sadly it seems he is no longer practicing Dupuytren NA but the good news is that he is researching cures now.

Insurance still seems to be slow in accepting it which is perhaps the biggest reason why we are behind Europe.

Reading the articles carefully I see that opinions are also changing with traditional hand surgery no longer the standard.

I think that if you look again at the literature you will find down the road that NA becomes the gold standard and traditional surgery is only used as a last case option.

As you can see from this quote NA has only been offered in America for about 10 years and for the first 5 years there was a very, very few doctors doing the procedure.

I think there are still only a small number offering NA in America.

"This technique was developed in Paris by Dr. Lermusiaux at the Hopital Laribosière. Dr. Eaton was personally instructed on this method by Dr. Lermusiaux and his colleagues in 2003. Dr. Eaton was the first physician to offer this procedure in the United States."

You say that you quit school in your senior year and had a 3.9 GPA. I know what I would do. I would take $10K and enroll in a Thai University for a year and finish my degree if I were you. You would have a year's experience in Thailand, picked up some language skills and had time to look around for a business niche and most importantly gotten a degree. Contrary to what some will say there are some good universities in Thailand.

Great advice.

Be sure to learn Thai during that year.

TravelerEastWest

I am not sure where you obtained your information from !

However in the UK the technique of NA is well known to specialist hand surgeons as it is in most (if not all ) of the Western/Eastern world !

The technique in its present form has been utilised for well over 20 years!

Some hand surgeons prefer not to offer NA because they percieve the (often) early recurrence of contracture to be unacceptable.

There are in addition to NA and open surgery other treatment options.

Look here,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,http://www.nhs.uk/Co...es/Surgery.aspx

The choice of treatment is a matter for discussion between a patient and the surgeon. Having a fixed thoughts as to what is the "best" treatment, based on internet searches is , perhaps , not the best of ideas

I understand and respect your point of view but strongly disagree.

I have never been to the UK and I do not understand the options of the UK medical system but I can comment on real life experience (not internet) in America, France and Thailand.

After talking to others with this condition the general consensus (not a statistical survey - smiling) is that in most cases NA is the best treatment in terms of speed, cost and pain.

The injections that have been under development in America are a promising new treatment but are very expensive and not widely available.

Thank you for your link - are the injections free in the UK?

When they become available in Thailand I would be interested in trying them.

I remember before moving to Thailand talking to very experienced expert hand surgeons and most of them had not heard of NA and were not interested until after it became widely accepted in the medical journals.

The medical system in America has many challenges so perhaps the UK is ahead of America with treatment? How many UK doctors are trained in NA I wonder?

Also perhaps in the last 5 years there have been changes in the West?

But I can assure you that when I first had this condition almost no one in America was using NA - actually perhaps zero doctors were using it. There is a good doctor in Florida currently who is a hand surgeon who is using it and a few here and there in America but not many as far as I know.

I would be very pleased to find out that I am behind the times (I have not been to America in over 5 years) but I think mainstream medicine does not favor NA yet and they are wrong based on my personal experience.

My wife finally found Dr. Kanit's web page at CMU: http://www.med.cmu.a....=200046〈=e

It is in Thai, but it does have his email address and phone number.

I did not see your message until today - check your messages.

Treatment of Dupuytren's depends on the extent of disability.

Needle Aponeurotomy is usually only undertaken for those with limited disease.

Recurrence rates are approximatly 50% with cases treated by NA deteriorating more quickly than those treated by more extensive "open" surgery.

It is best to seek out a specialist hand surgeon and follow his/her advise in relation to treatment.

Very softly gently and politely I do not agree.

NA is done in France in perhaps all but the most serious cases and even then it may be very helpful.

Talking to a traditional hand surgeon can be a very bad idea as until recently many had not even heard of NA and where not supporters.

So does no one have a certain answer?

I would assume that since I am older I would be the reference point.

If no one knows the answer for sure what would be the next step in researching this question?

Perhaps asking the Thai teachers at my childrens school?