Owner selling my condo I am renting

[loong]

I had never met my landlord as the condo office sorted out the contract etc.

I was notified that the landlord wanted to do an inspection, but he was actually showing a prospective buyer.
Some weeks later I had a note pinned to my door. The landlord had sold the unit and I had 5 days to vacate!

So yes, some buyers will expect you to get out, whether you want to stand firm because you have a contract, well that's up to you.

In my case, I still had 2 months of my contract to run and I couldn't believe my luck. I was looking to move because the noise situation there had become practically unbearable. Of course, if I had broken the contract, there is no way that I would get my deposit back. So 5 days later I was in my new place and I got the full deposit back.

Edited December 6, 2022 by loong

[OneMoreFarang]

2 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Maybe not going to happen based on Thailand Condominium Act of 2008 and authority of the Juristic Person in a Juristic Condominium.

 

The JP is responsible in part for setting and collecting utility rates and payment. As such it would follow that any punitive action a condo unit owner/landlord may want to take against a specific condo unit lessee such as shutting down basic utilities for example cannot legally happen, probably not even physically happen. (assuming the condo owner cannot legally collude with the JP to contrive a utility shutdown event)

 

There is also a February 2018 law wherein the utility fee regulation falls under the authority of the Consumer Protection Act. If tenants fall behind on their rent, landlords cannot resort to punitive action by locking the tenant out of their unit. So it would follow that a landlord could not simply shut off utilities for a leased condo unit as a punitive act to force a tenant out of a lessee unit, especially in connection with a Juristic Condominium and lessee not actually being in default of utility payments to the JP.

Wonderful, then nothing can happen.

 

Or not?

Let's say I would be a bad landlord with someone renting my condominium.

Maybe I inspect my condominium one day and I think I saw some flash from the main beaker box. Maybe I just imagined that flash. But obviously I want to prevent accidents and I want that my tenant lives in a secure condominium. So just to be sure I ask the condominium management to switch off the electricity to my unit - obviously I want to protect the health and life of my tenant.

And then I will hire an electrician to look at that problem. Obviously it should be a good electrician and my friend Somchai the specialist is not available in the next two weeks. Sorry, we have to keep the electricity switched off for your own security...

 

Now tell me something like that could not possibly happen.

I don't say it will happen. But there are always ways to make life difficult.

 

And no, I was never a landlord in my life. 

 

[The Theory]

This is Thailand 

by my experience 

Things won't work the same way in all cases. 

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Wonderful, then nothing can happen.

 

Or not?

Let's say I would be a bad landlord with someone renting my condominium.

Maybe I inspect my condominium one day and I think I saw some flash from the main beaker box. Maybe I just imagined that flash. But obviously I want to prevent accidents and I want that my tenant lives in a secure condominium. So just to be sure I ask the condominium management to switch off the electricity to my unit - obviously I want to protect the health and life of my tenant.

And then I will hire an electrician to look at that problem. Obviously it should be a good electrician and my friend Somchai the specialist is not available in the next two weeks. Sorry, we have to keep the electricity switched off for your own security...

 

Now tell me something like that could not possibly happen.

I don't say it will happen. But there are always ways to make life difficult.

 

And no, I was never a landlord in my life. 

 

In theory the landlord should organize a new temporary stay for him at least same standard ????

 

Thats the normal custom

[twchang]

There was e updated law

for rent/hire condo implemented for some years ago,

l rember deposit only legal for 1 month,

but time for rent was also reduced 

( so people could move quickly)

was it max 3 mont ( correct my if i'm wrong 

[Wake Up]

Speak with her. It happened to me also. The owner gave me all of my two months deposit back and one month free rent to leave early. Got my deposit back the day I moved out. The owner also paid to clean the condo after I left so I did not have to do anything but leave. 

[JimTripper]

On 12/5/2022 at 7:04 AM, Hummin said:

I guess you should read that one more time ????

If the landlord knows how to read. Many people here just fake it and actually never learned to read.