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I dont have wireless and TOT connection all week has been horible . I have to wait forever even to watch a You Tube video

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The Dukes hands down best burgers in Chiang Mai ........ Best onion rings too ......

I was told by Thai immigration the letter had to be withing two weeks of my visit to extend . Didnt matter I had bank statements pension letters they want the affidavit as well as the other documents . Personally its a waste of $50.00 but oh well I ll get it again and pay just to be done with it .

In Chiang Mai have never shown anything except the letter from US consulate, I do come prepared with credit union statements just in case they are asked for. I never ask at immigration what they want as who are you asking some trainee into his first week who just doesn't know.

On my last visit to renew my extention although I had the affidavit , I was asked to provide proof of pension from my pension office . The officer was not a trainee, she reached over to a stack of applications and pulled another pension letter and showed me what she wanted so I was not being singled out . The pevious year I did not need the proof just the affidavit and it was also a different immigration officer . It may it depends on which immigration officer you end up with .

As best as I know you can not get a ballot from the embassy you must get it from the election office where you are registered to vote . It can be emailed to you by the election office . After you fill out your ballot you can take it to the embassy and it will be placed in their military mail . Takes about two weeks to get to your voting office . No stamp needed . Can only be dropped off Im thinking it was Wed between 11 and 2 . I may be wrong on that but is is posted on the consulate website .....

I was told by Thai immigration the letter had to be withing two weeks of my visit to extend . Didnt matter I had bank statements pension letters they want the affidavit as well as the other documents . Personally its a waste of $50.00 but oh well I ll get it again and pay just to be done with it .

Had a neighbor that owned the lot next door . Got a copy of the chanote from them . Took that to the land office with a copy of the moo baan lots . Found the the first person sitting behind one of the desks my wife spoke to her gave her the copy of the chanote and showed her the plots we wanted the information on and left our phone number . Two days later we get a call from the same woman saying she had the names and that one lot was partly owned by the bank . They never asked for any money at the land office but it was given in a white piece of paper after we got the information . We contacted the first owner who checked with her son and later called back and did not want to sell.

The second owner was in Bangkok and we reached the mother of the owner who told us to call back after 9 pm . Mean while lady from the land office calls and tells us how much she wants . But never offers us the number . My wife tells her we have already made contact . Later that night my wife contacts the owner and she quotes us the same price the lady from the land office tell us .... and appears not to want to give up a penny . The next night my wife calls the owner again and talks seems the lady from the land office had called the owner and wanted to sell the property and collect 3 % from her... Thats not going to happen ....

Ok a couple things we did wrong . One was I went into the land office with my wife ... Farrang $$$$$$$$

Second we should have just said we just wanted to talk to the owner because the land was full of snakes and they were invading our house and wanted to offer to clear it .... I think this would have been a much better approach . But all id well anyway .... Hope this helps someone else ....

Funny thing was we located a house for sale a few months ago . It was rented for 10 months and they could not sell it until them . Both husband and wife agreed on a price and we agreeded to purchase it when the renter was out . We even offered to buy it with them still in it and let them keep the rent money . Or put down a deposit .But they said no it was ok we ll start three months before they move out . My wife spoke with them many times and they assured us everything was fine . When was time to give us a copy of the chanote and house book , the woman called said she was bringing over but the price had gone up 200,000. My wife asked me what I wanted to tell her .... I cant print what I said but the jest was to use the house for toilet paper .... I will have pleasure seeing the weeds grow up around the place while they pay the moo baan fee waiting on another buyer ...

As far as finding the phone numbers my wife googled the names in Thai and got them both with no problem ...

Ha did what I said I was going to do and got just what I needed with little problem and a short wait ........ Thanks for everyones advice ... Now trying step two ......

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If the disk is making a clattering noise its pretty much a lost casue unless you want to send it to a clean room . If the drive is dead the freezer trick works wonders it will usually stay active long enough to transfer the data although in a few cases I have had the drives become totally operative after being froozen for a few days ............

Yes my wife and I will go today to the land office today with the information and and a few extra baht , as Im sure a little tea money will speed matters up . Not keen on a lawyer becasue the less people with there hands in our pockets the better . Neighbors have no idea who owns the land we tried that first ...

Does anyone know if the land office can and will look up and tell you who owns a piece of land ? Is the land office in Hangdong next to the police station ????

Found two lots in a moo baan that have been vacant for a very long time . The moo baan will not tell us of course they want us to buy one of there lots ...

I remember a few months back reading another post here saying about the same thing except this guy was in a parking lot close to Thape gate when he was confornted by the ladys husband he jumped on a bike and rode off .. This guy needs to be caught .......

Baan Rungarroon has a good weight room , also has treadmills and stationary bikes . If you dont live in the moo baan you can still use them I think its about 40 baht per day . Also the community center behind the Hang dong hospital has the same and a little cheeper . Both have nice pools too ..

They may be refering to the document you get after passing through Aggriculture at the airport . We did get a form that we had to show the customs officer on the way out the door . Thats where we got tagged for 1000 baht . Other than that thats about all you have to do . If its a small dog bringing the dog in the cabin was no problem. Just had to take her out and hold her and walk through the metal detectors ...

I got the same message it only applies to JPY transactions not the transactions of US dollars from a US bank ... We are still safe I do the same thing every month .. Have it all set up automatic ...... If that ever changes I ll just use my debit card from the US the only fee I get charged is the 150 baht bank fee .....

YMCA is great for learning Thai . I have gone through levels 1 through 6 and really enjoyed the teachers and the classes . At Level three I took level 1 writing . It was too much at one time . I would not recomend doing that . You will have enough to think about just taking one course . The costs of the classes are the most reasonable as well .....

I brought my dog over from the USA on Delta 2 years ago . I had to find flights that had openings for the dog . They have a rule only so many animals on each flight . Also makes a difference if its a large or small dog . I was able to bring mine in the cabin . I purchased a case for her that looked just as a carry on which was easy to slide under the seat in front of me . The paper work was another story . The dog must be vacinated atleast 21 days before departure . There is a special form which the vet must fill out within 10 days of departure. This form must be sent to the USDA vet in what ever state you reside and stamped then sent back and carried with you while traveling . The trick is to get the form to USDA and then back all within the ten days. I used UPS overnight both ways and had two days to spare. There are only two vacines they reqired one was for rabies and the other for parvo and distemper as best as I remember . We also contacted Thai Aggriculture at the airport and advised them of the flight we were coming in on and also emailed a picture of the dog with my wife and a copy of her passport . Once we arrived we went to aggriculture they checked the paperwork charged us a couple hundred baht and we left . Had to stop at customs and paid another 1000 baht duty on the dog ... It was really no big hassle once we got the forms back from USDA ...

Oh if he has to overnight in Bangkok we could find no hotel friendly hotels there are some kennels but we went straight from the airport to her parents . Also only way we could find to Chiang Mai from Bangkok was the overnight Nightmare express sleeper with no A/C ... We did not check the airlines .

my apologizes to the lengthy question as im really new to loans. any advise if i would be able to secure a house loan for my case?

both my wife and me are self employed. i deposit a million baht in my wife account last year to purchase a car, now its left around 200k now. my personal account is pretty messed up with no savings with just random weekly deposit and withdrawal according to my needs, around 70k-100k in and out monthly. i do pay my house rent on time, 20k before bills per month for around 2 years, would that count for good credit rating? i had a maybank credit card that i use for movies, online shopping and gadget stuff here and pay my bills on time as well, would that qualify for credit rating as well? the card is alittle more than a year old. im looking for a 50% loan, or higher if interest rate is good

I can tell you what we were told at most of the banks . If you wife is Thai and she can show an income for atleast the last 6 months that taxes were paid on then you stand a very good chance of getting better than a 50% loan. Then again if you are putting in and taking out every month they may look at that a little different .

I am pretty much on the same boat . Wife has no income but has in the past, borrowed and paid back when she worked in Bangkok . We talked to SCB we were told they would finance 50% of the appraised value based on my income which of course is fixed and solid . Luckly we have located a house we like and the owner is more than willing to sell when her renter vacates which is still five months off . Our plan is to apply sometime in November . We offered a small down payment to hold the house but seller said was not nessasary . We are hoping for an appraisal for more than what the asking price is . If there is any advice on how to get the apprasial kicked up I would very much like to hear them . Thus far and we have checked many banks,, SCB is the only bank we found that would consider a home loan based on a farrangs spouses income ...

Any advice here I would be greatful ..... I can plop down 50% of the asking price but would prefer not to dig that deep in my savings ....

Unless your wife can show an income last time I checked Bangkok Bank will not make a house loan based on a farrang income as to guarentee . Only bank I could find was SCB and they would only loan 50% of the appraised value of the home . If anyone has another experience or way of doing this I would truly like to know as well . We pretty much checked all of the banks and this is what we found .

Does anyone know the going rate per square meter to build a house here in Chiang Mai ... I have heard things from 7500 to 12000 per square meter ....

You can open an account with Bangkok Bank , you can then do a direct deposit into thier branch in New York the funds are usually available within a day or two here in Thailand .

Try Rungarrooon 3 off Hang Dong Road very nice well kept and great security . Use of the pool and club house is reasonable along with the moo baan fee. Not alot of issues with dogs or noise close to the market and really anything you need . Houses range from 5000 baht a month to 30,000 depending on how fancy you want to get . I have been here two years and have looked at many other moo baans and prefer this one over any I have seen in the past . No issues with airplane noise or street noise . At 9 oclock you can hear a pin drop ... No flooding issues either . You will be hard pressed to find anything here without a 12 month lease ..... Good mixture of Thai and farrang as well .

Well if they are curious as to what he was going to do for work in Thailand they can rule out Rocket Scientist ,,,,,,,,,,,