We demand action! Pattaya foreigners complain damage from next door condo construction

 

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A group of European residents in Pattaya have had enough.

 

They bought houses in the resort only for a large condominium complex to be built next door.

 

They have suffered damage to their houses in the construction phase and now they can't even rent out their properties due to noise.

 

Complaints to the local authority and the police have fallen on deaf ears. While the condo development have just given superficial help.

 

Now they have turned to the media to try and get some justice.

 

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Pattaya Update News reporters went to see the "Europeans and Scandinavians" in their soi of "Grand Thanyawan Home 2" that has been there more than ten years.

 

The houses - that costs at least 4 million baht each - are towered over by the four buildings of Arcadia Beach Resort Condominium next door.

 

Bjorn Ingolf Soreng, 57, led the chorus of complaints saying that the piling next door caused cracks in walls, floors and fences.

 

Calls to the cops and City Hall proved useless.

 

Now he said he feared of a collapse.

 

The Arcadia management sent a few guys round who painted over some cracks and replaced a few ceramic tiles but didn't do anything more.

 

Waree Seuayoosai, married to a foreigner in the soi, said they bought their property for 4 million baht 12 years ago.

 

It was all nice and quiet before and they could get a good rental income.

 

No more. With the noise from the condo - especially the air-conditioners no one wants to rent out their place any more.

 

Source: Pattayaupdate news

 

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11 minutes ago, webfact said:

Complaints to the local authority and the police have fallen on deaf ears.

Only money will unwax these ears.

And the surprise is????


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15 minutes ago, webfact said:

married to a foreigner in the soi, said they bought their property for 4 million baht 12 years ago.

I wonder what this house is worth now?

24 minutes ago, missoura said:

I wonder what this house is worth now?

4.1million

Even with the pixelated image, it is clearly that everlasting joker Bjorn.

I wonder what this house is worth now?

Probably won’t need any sun-shades now!


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Well, that's how it is in Thailand.

 

Advice : Dont buy property here ...

this is why I will NEVER EVER buy property in Thailand.

 

And please keep on over building so rents are super low for decades to come. 

19 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

this is why I will NEVER EVER buy property in Thailand.

 

And please keep on over building so rents are super low for decades to come. 

 

But the developers will say 'If we stop developing and building more villages and condos then a lot of workers will have no job so have to continue building'.

 

 

Edited July 17, 20187 yr by scorecard

23 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

this is why I will NEVER EVER buy property in Thailand.

 

And please keep on over building so rents are super low for decades to come. 

A would be savvy property purchaser will always look at the surroundings of the property he's wishing to buy keeping in minds that everything is possible to happen with properties next door, well, as much as one can be careful in this country... 

19 minutes ago, ezzra said:

A would be savvy property purchaser will always look at the surroundings of the property he's wishing to buy keeping in minds that everything is possible to happen with properties next door, well, as much as one can be careful in this country... 

It would be a very savvy, maybe a clairvoyant property purchaser to know a high-rise or condo is going to be built right next door in 10 years time.

 

Mind you, around 10-12 years ago, there wasn't any indication that they would be shoehorning condo's into back streets miles from the beach. Condo's were primarily (near) beach front affectations and small, quiet, low-density housing developments beyond the railroad bypass would have certainly been appealing back then, especially at 4 m baht.

On 7/17/2018 at 3:10 AM, webfact said:

Calls to the cops and City Hall proved useless.

Welcome to Thailand.....

 

 

Edited July 18, 20187 yr by Maestro
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Are there any zoning by-laws or an official city plan which clearly identifies what can be built in a specific area or what type of business can operate in an area?

 

It seem it's just urban sprawl - anybody can build anything anywhere.

 

I guess one option is to sue for damages - but only the lawyers will get rich using that path.

Edited July 17, 20187 yr by Banana7

I have been building a house,it has put me on the edge of a nervous breakdown,so i know how these guys must feel.

59 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

Are there any zoning by-laws or an official city plan which clearly identifies what can be built in a specific area or what type of business can operate in an area?

 

It seem it's just urban sprawl - anybody can build anything anywhere.

 

I guess one option is to sue for damages - but only the lawyers will get rich using that path.

Yes any rich Thai can do anything e.g. Red Bull Heir, running over a policeman in his Ferrari , killing him, leaving the scene , drinking alcohol when he got home , paying off policeman's family etc, never been to court. Big resorts built in National Parks, illegal building on beaches everyhere e.g. sea side of Walking Street Pattaya. Whatever happenned building next to Doi Suthep Temple in Chiang Mai , Only about 10% of hotels in Phi Phi capable of legal registration .............., Aliens controlling large areas of resort beach land e.g.  estimated to be 80% at Mae Ramphung Beach Rayong, against the law.

 

The only option is bribing someone. This is natural Thai culture. Up to them.

 

 

Edited July 17, 20187 yr by spacebass
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I rent a condo in Soi Cozy in a block I would consider buying but there is massive plot of undeveloped overgrown land from a previous failed project. Its tied up in legal problems now. But once that problem is sorted its obvious a condo will be built there. Meaning 24/7 construction noise and dust.  To say nothing of what effect it will have on the environment when it is completed. In the UK, when buying a property you can learn of any future developments and the status of the land nearby. Not foolproof but a bit less haphazard than here.

5 hours ago, DILLIGAD said:

And the surprise is????


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There is no surprise. Buying property anywhere in LOS is like buying a house next to Swampy and then complaining that planes are flying overhead.

It may be fine when bought, but nothing to stop an all night karaoke starting up next door ( or even a new condo under construction ), and nothing Johnny Foreigner can do about it. Yet there are those that will say we that warn of such are mistaken. 555555555555.

6 hours ago, missoura said:

I wonder what this house is worth now?

Nothing by the sound of it

You should never, ever buy a house near vacant land. Anything can be built upon, they should think themselves lucky a rubbish tip was not approved.

 

I’m not sure how A/C;s  can be noisy, the condos are not occupied as no one has settled, waiting on city halls approval.

 

 

Progress is a bitch!

Always rent, so you can move at moments notice, when something like this happens, or some youths move in nearby with their mindless Thai 'rock', or the Thai neighbours turn on you for a whole myriad of reasons.  Just go to one 'just built building', until the problems come [which they will], and then onto the next 'just built building'.  Quick on your toes, and travel light.

Edited July 17, 20187 yr by Jeremy50
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Not suprised and thats the risk of buying/renting somewhere with empty land!

There is a office mid rise office building under construction outside my window, they say it will be six floors and thus not block my view.

For two years at least no substantial work has been done, just an ugly shell. What are they thinking why start anyway?

    The builder should pay for any repairs needed due to the construction but it's ridiculous to complain about air conditioning noise.   

Anyone who owns a house in that area would be well advised to stop moaning and sell up as quickly as possible. All the currently empty land around there will eventually be built on, and once the hordes of short-term Chinese and Russian tourists start checking into these hideous condo buildings the area will be a disaster zone.

.....it's ridiculous to complain about air conditioning noise.

I'm not so sure. Some of these buildings are 6 or 7 stories high, with two el-cheapo air-conditioners on each floor every 4 or 5 metres. And some of these building are only a metre or two from the boundary line. The noise can be astonishing when they are all going.

Look at Nam Talay in Na Jomtien. Built right on top of what used to be a rather nice private soi with some nice houses in it. Probably now only worth a tiny fraction of what they used to be, I suspect.

https://goo.gl/maps/y5cALdqMvVJ2

Shameful.

A house next to a big empty block..what did they expect?

I checked before buying my condo in BKK and the big empty block next to me is limited to 8 stories as are the ones built next to it and Im way higher than that.

8 hours ago, Wallander4 said:

Well, that's how it is in Thailand.

 

Advice : Dont buy property here ...

Amen.  If you aren't able to figure this simple fact out then you get what you deserve.

9 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

But the developers will say 'If we stop developing and building more villages and condos then a lot of workers will have no job so have to continue building'.

 

 

Maybe the developers will say that, but it is most certainly not thought.