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Looking at this arrangement and I am interested in the legality in Thailand. Is there a legal option like escrow?

 

Someone needs money (Loanee)

Loanee has 2 chinote land

Loaner gives money given to loanee

When loanee pays back the loanee gets the chinote back

Until that time, loaner can farm that land, do whatever, like it is theirs (but not a change of ownership)

 

Can anyone shed some light on doing something like this in Thailand. I am trying to understand how one could do it without getting ripped off. Please hold all the general "Don't do it, scam, dumb falang getting ripped off, you are stupid, etc" comments. Trying to understand if it is possible, please do reply with real legitimate, lucid, factual reasons to do or not do. Thank you ????

 

 

 

 

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that is how it works....unscrupulous lenders may use the chinote as collateral to obtain private loans without changing the ownership....the chinote used to borrow Baht 100,000 may have been used to obtain a loan of Baht 300,000....the chinote will now cost Baht 400,000 plus interest to buy back....borrowing against chinotes is common practice

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2 minutes ago, transam said:

The Chanote method used by a sensible money man man is as follows.

You and the money man go to Land office, your loan amount and the money mans  name etc are written on the back of the Chanote, so if you fail to pay the money back, or pay late you deal with both the lender and the land office to get the money back. In other words, you lose. When you complete paying for the loan, you and the money man go back to the land office to remove the transaction.

This method has a fee at the land office which must be paid by the borrower. 

Transam is absoluty correct, the loan contact must be registered against the change in the land office.

Whether the borrower or the lender can use the land during the payback time is to be decided in the contract and will likely influence the interest rate to be paid.

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Thank you for the replies - this makes a lot more sense now. 

 

Is there anything that can be done without a Chanote? What if it is "Paw Sam Taw"  ภบท5 land? I don't remember the term, but it is before a chanote is issued.

 

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18 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

The short answer is agree a written contract then go to the land office and officially register it on the title deed.

 

 

I could go on, but I'm sure you get the picture. Unsecured loans are a matter of trust. If the borrower and lender are not in the same circle of trust then there is a higher probability of default.

Is it worth mentioning the legal maximum rate of interest.

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5 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

Is it worth mentioning the legal maximum rate of interest.

 

You have not given me enough information to answer your question.

 

Do you mean a verbal or written contract?

 

What category of land would the contract be for? NS3G, PBT5, etc?

 

What do you want the contract to achieve?

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27 minutes ago, blackcab said:

 

You have not given me enough information to answer your question.

 

Do you mean a verbal or written contract?

 

What category of land would the contract be for? NS3G, PBT5, etc?

 

What do you want the contract to achieve?

 

I assumed that the maximum legal interest rate applied to all written contracts. If it is more complicated than that then I don't know.

 

 

I have seen loan debt reduced by the Land Office because the rate charged was significantly higher than the maximum. I cannot recall if that rate was 15 or 18% p.a.

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23 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

I assumed that the maximum legal interest rate applied to all written contracts. If it is more complicated than that then I don't know.

 

 

I have seen loan debt reduced by the Land Office because the rate charged was significantly higher than the maximum. I cannot recall if that rate was 15 or 18% p.a.

 

The statutory interest rate is currently 5 per cent, and this could be applied to any contract that does not specify an interest rate.

 

The maximum interest rate is 15 per cent per annum.

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23 hours ago, blackcab said:

The statutory interest rate is currently 5 per cent, and this could be applied to any contract that does not specify an interest rate.

 

The maximum interest rate is 15 per cent per annum.

Thank you.

 

If someone signs a loan (shark)  agreement with an interest rate of, say, 7% per month - would you say that is illegal/enforceable?

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3 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

Thank you.

 

If someone signs a loan (shark)  agreement with an interest rate of, say, 7% per month - would you say that is illegal/enforceable?

 

Loan sharks don't tend to use paper contracts as usury is illegal in Thailand as a result of the Act Prohibiting the Collection of Interest at an Excessive Rate B.E. 2560 (2017).

 

A paper contract with a 7 per cent per month interest rate would be all the evidence needed for a prosecution. The maximum punishment is 2 years imprisonment and a 200,000 baht fine. There would also be a good chance of being prosecuted for money laundering which means all available assets would be immediately seized and it would be very, very difficult and costly to get any of them back. Land, houses, vehicles, bank accounts, cash, jewellery, expensive electronics, etc all gone.

 

Is a usurious interest rate enforceable? Not in a Court, but then loan sharks never aim to be in Court. Their method of enforcement is of a different kind.

 

Consider, a foreigner loans large sums of money at usurious rates to Thai people. All the borrowers have to do is jointly petition the police and bitterly complain they are being extorted.

 

Foreigner is arrested, and at the least it is gong to be very expensive to resolve.

 

In the worst case the borrowers complain publicly to the government, the media get involved and there is now a serious chance of conviction and everything that entails.

 

Of course none of the borrowers would complain would they, if they thought the loan might be canceled and the lender would be powerless to do anything about it?

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50 minutes ago, blackcab said:

 

Loan sharks don't tend to use paper contracts as usury is illegal in Thailand as a result of the Act Prohibiting the Collection of Interest at an Excessive Rate B.E. 2560 (2017).

 

A paper contract with a 7 per cent per month interest rate would be all the evidence needed for a prosecution. The maximum punishment is 2 years imprisonment and a 200,000 baht fine. There would also a good chance of being prosecuted for money laundering which means all available assets would be immediately seized and it would be very, very difficult and costly to get any of them back. Land, houses, vehicles, bank accounts, cash, jewellery, expensive electronics, etc all gone.

 

Is a usurious interest rate enforceable? Not in a Court, but then loan sharks never aim to be in Court. Their method of enforcement is of a different kind.

 

Consider, a foreigner loans large sums of money at usurious rates to Thai people. All the borrowers have to do is jointly petition the police and bitterly complain they are being extorted.

 

Foreigner is arrested, and at the least it is gong to be very expensive to resolve.

 

In the worst case the borrowers complain publicly to the government, the media get involved and there is now a serious chance of conviction and everything that entails.

 

Of course none of the borrowers would complain would they, if they thought the loan might be canceled and the lender would be powerless to do anything about it?

 

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply with such a comprehensive and well-balanced response.

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22 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

You have not given me enough information to answer your question.

 

1). Do you mean a verbal or written contract?

 

2). What category of land would the contract be for? NS3G, PBT5, etc?

 

3). What do you want the contract to achieve?

1). Written contract.

 

2). It is Por Bor Tor 5 ภ.บ.ท.๕ land

 

3). To be able to buy chanote land that has a loan against it. The people do not have the money to release the chanote. The idea would be to loan the money against other land the same people own, then release the chanote, the chanote gets transferred to the lender. When the lendee pays back the balance (loan amount exceeds chanote land value), they get the use of the Por Bor Tor 5 land back. That PBT5 land gets rented and rent collected by lender until that time (if ever).

 

Being the land is Por Bor Tor 5, this idea seems out of steam. Would there be some other legal document that could be used in this case?

 

Thanks, the answers have been really, really good. I am learning a lot.

 

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