JimmyGreaves

Sorry Rimmer didn't make myself clear.

The two layers forming the cavity will be qcon and it is 2 storey. The partition of room walls I am thinking of cinder. Just wondering about when they meet each other what to use glue or mortar and if I will be liable to craking on the joins.

Rimmer.

I am thinking of doing the same cavity on my outside walls using cpac aac or qcon blocks. To try and save on the cost of build I am thinking of putting normal blocks on the interior walls. Do you think I will have any problems where the two diffent type of blocks join?

My major dislike of the company route for ownership was the nominess being my wife and the Thais working at the Lawyers Office. The Thais at the lawyers office were nominess for dozens (hundreds???) of similar companies in the Pattaya area.

I looked into the Usufruct/30 year lease thing and was working with Sunbelt to set up the Usufruct.

The process of doing this involved me having to remove all the shareholders and putting new shareholders in place so the Usufruct could be set up. Something to do with the Usufruct not being allowed in the name of a current shareholder - ie my wife.

To cut a long story short, I realsied I could remove the Thai nominees in the office as now only 3 people are needed for the company setup.

Sorted - so now the company is just me, my wife and her mother.

So the problem as far as I am concerned is solved or at least manageable. It was always unsettling to me that I would need to try to argue the case for nominees that were nominees in many other companies!

I know this will be 'knocked down' as still illegal etc... still it is alot better than it was - and the Usufruct thing just did not feel right. I dont like the idea I would be living here the rest of my life without the authority to sell if I wanted to.

Good idea. Was this any easy process and what was the cost to register the resignation documents and appoint the new 3rd shareholder?

Does this still give you control though?

Just drive out any of the sois from about 6 to 115 and see about all the unfinished bui9ldings and buy from them at a discount! Also, you might call a few builders and see jhow many unfinished houses theuy have to get rid of materials..... What ever you do make sure you pay upon delivery and they have security untill the materials are used!

Your having a laugh. Look on the main drag, building building and more building. Ok some builders have stopped but I doubt they have stockpiled materials.

Please note that I said, being more specific that to say drive out, drive west on the sois......

Certainly there is alot of building on Petch... ( I assume you were referting to the main street thre town)

You might also try to special order items from unemployed building workers. there are many of them waiting to serve you!

wanke_r!

In a recession the rich get richer.....

What a nonsense. What is happening now with 5000$ suits bankers? Hundreds of thousands jobs in finance only lost. Ask Richard Fuld, ex-CEO of Lehman, he was a billionaire (when you see him at soup kitchen). CEOs of Detroit's Big 3 - they were paid 20+ million a year now working for 1$, their piles of stocks worthless.

in a recession, the rich survive, the poor get f@#$%! and the rest move back with their parents ..

I couldn't agree more... Like I said, happy days are here again! FCYK< I've already made money in the market in the U.S. And, yes my 6% guaranteed Annuity did get a bailout from the U.S. Mahalo tayers, for the tax rebate. Also another fund, retirement, went belly up but was bailed out under U.S. Law.... Happy Days are Still here! Have money, during recession, get more!

Your not a full shilling FarangFatal, go Troll somewhere else!

Just drive out any of the sois from about 6 to 115 and see about all the unfinished bui9ldings and buy from them at a discount! Also, you might call a few builders and see jhow many unfinished houses theuy have to get rid of materials..... What ever you do make sure you pay upon delivery and they have security untill the materials are used!

Your having a laugh. Look on the main drag, building building and more building. Ok some builders have stopped but I doubt they have stockpiled materials.

Q Con is load bearing so you can throw away the sow poons altogether and build UK style with proper footings and O Con lapped corners.

Never seen this done, is that for real?

So Thailand cuts rates and the baht strenghtens , whilst the pound falls even before rates are announced in the UK ??

and I don't see how this would work , see under , surely all rates are interlinked , so how would one benefit by changing pounds to dollars and then transferring to Thailand ?

"QUOTE (Tafia @ 2008-12-03 11:17:46)

With the uncertainty of a reasonable £ exchange, would UK expats be able to transfer via SWIFT US$ instead of £.

Wou;d that give them a better exchange over there?

The short answer is yes but really it depends on what rate you get when you trade GBP for USD. Change one Pound Sterling for Baht and you get x baht, trade one Pound Sterling for Dollars, Swift it to Thailand and then change it to Baht and you still get x, broadly speaking. But trade Sterling for Dollars now and wait for the value of Sterling to fall and you will still get the pre-fall rate for Baht using Dollars. Make sense? "

If you look at USD/BAHT currently it has been climbing slowly over recent weeks whilst GBP/BAHT has been falling - GBP has been falling against USD also. Therefore, change GBP for USD now and when GBP/USD next falls you can use USD to buy BAHT at the higher rate.

Maybe GBP rises against the USD from here on and you are caught!

Can anyone recommend a fair priced builders merchants in HH or Cha Am.

Need a house load of CPAC/Qcon or superblocks 3000-5000 blocks

Thanks Lite Beer. Will do some investigations on this one and report back!

Many thanks but my wife does not have an income so how would that work ?

Members have reported that their Wifes go to the tax office and pay tax on an imaginary income.

Any idea with a ball park figure how much would that be 4 the year on 480,000?

Can you still get this Visa Extension for over 50, thai child and not married?

gdhm to you have images of your build on the Thai Visa site or anywhere else?

Cheers

A pity you can not hold the laywer responsible who adviced you to set up an illegal structure and told you it was the best legal way.

Then again, why not try. Would be nice to see them sweat and come up with some solid reasoning why they gave illegal advice.

Jail time would be nice, and a fine of course. Let's say 10.000 baht fine and 5 year jail.

illegal, why, a company can own land and property!

Last year paid 900baht for a truck load in Hua Hin. The girlfriend tells me it's 1,200 baht + now.

Hua Hin is a building site.

Well, thanks for all the lovely replies.

As IssanLawyers originally stated it's the Tabien Bahn and also a few others like gdhm. As Burger and others stated how can it be the tabian bahn when someone else owned the property but someone else still had Tabian Bahn in their name.

Like finding a needle in a haystack!

Is it the case that the tabian bahn. whether blue or yellow actually has two types of entry.

1. A mandatory entry saying who the owner of the house is. A company name or an individuals name

2. Other entries of type residents - Can have many individuals named.

Can you just not sell it for say 10,000 baht and put that in the books or gift it?

No

Golf is expensive in Hua Hin in my opinion. However the courses are good.

August is good green fees 800 baht + caddy say 250 baht + caddy tip 300 baht. Else green fees can be 2500 baht +-

If myself and girlfriend decide to build a house on our company land do we need to declare it to anyone.

Do we just need to get a building permit and start to build?

I am considering moving 'my' house and land to my wife via a USUFRUCT.

Why do you have to move both house and land?

I would have thought if you wanted to close down the company then you are better protected by only giving the land to your wife on the transfer and having at least the house in your name. Then do the USUFRUCT.

I have a similar dilemna, have some land through the company route but want to build. However do not want to put the house in the company name and not sure the best way to go.

It's great that everyones purchase has gone up in value. However it is a totally different story if you try to sell it. Thai's in general with money in the millions prefer to buy new especially with it currently being a buyers market. HH is swamped with development. Seems everyone likes to add a few million here and there to the worth of finished 2nd hand properties. You may as well buy new!

Sounds as though the way to go if you have a limited company and you personnaly want to have ownership of the house as a falang is get a 3 year lease off the (your) company. No registration is needed and you just keep renewing the lease every 3 years. Is that true?

My G/F has got a UK visitors visa but whilst there I would like to take her to Ireland and maybe Spain.

Do I need visas?

You just go downstairs to the bank (forgot the name) and they issue you with the bankers draft so don't let that worry you!

Also the sponsors/boy freinds/ husbands etc are not allowed in the office area

Yes that's the one. Thanks for that.

Anyone tried this, if so what's the quality like and does the change come through as 2 baht a minute via 12call mobiles and TOT landlines?