Ex-girlfriend tries to steal 10 motorcycles

[Alexzweiner]

Previously, we created a motorbike rental business.  Because  I do not have the right to engage in this business in Thailand, bikes were registered on her name.  Broke up with a girl.  She took the documents for motorcycles and threatens the police if I do not give all the bikes to her.  Some of the bikes are still in rental.  Advise with practical advice what I can do in this situation so as not to lose all motorcycles. 

[Shop mak]

Bikes in her name.

You practically lost all bikes already.

Nothing you can do then. Unless you have a loan agreement with her, which I guess you don't.

 

Edit: it isn't theft when they are registered in her name.

 

 

Edited March 5, 2023 by Shop mak

[BananaStrong]

9 minutes ago, Alexzweiner said:

bikes were registered on her name

Thai law might think YOU are tying to steal them from her!!!!!   I've read over 768 million of these stories, and they just keep happening!!!!

 

tomorrow, his house "gone" but it was really her house all along.  

 

sorry bro, maybe get back with her, sell the bikes, then break up

[Liverpool Lou]

13 minutes ago, Alexzweiner said:

 Advise with practical advice what I can do in this situation so as not to lose all motorcycles. 

You cannot do anything as you have no bikes, what makes you think that you could be able to get her bikes? 

 

Whose bukes are you claiming she is stealing...are there others not registered in her name?

Edited March 5, 2023 by Liverpool Lou

[Hummin]

Did you make Company ? Or even company solely in her name? 

 

Where did you get the money from, and if you transferred from abroad, did you register what you going to spend the money on? 

[Upnotover]

Made up nonsense.

[Denim]

12 minutes ago, Alexzweiner said:

practical advice what I can do in this situation so as not to lose all.

Seriously, even if there were a legal way to save something from the wreckage , the legal fees would probably wipe out a lot of any value of the motorcycles you succeed in saving.

 

There is a saying here. Don't invest in anything you can't afford to walk away from..

 

You have not mentioned how much money you stand to lose. What figure are we talking about ?

[Gaccha]

22 minutes ago, Alexzweiner said:

practical advice what I can do in this situation

You need to flee the country because you can be arrested for working without a work permit. 

[Denim]

1 minute ago, Upnotover said:

Made up nonsense.

Probably true. A post from a ' newbie ' just stoking the ashes in the forums fire.

[Bluespunk]

25 minutes ago, Alexzweiner said:

bikes were registered on her name.

Therefore they are probably hers in the eyes of the law. 

[norfolkandchance]

 Bulldoze and then do a runner.

[norfolkandchance]

6 minutes ago, Denim said:

Probably true. A post from a ' newbie ' just stoking the ashes in the forums fire.

Nah. Probably in his mums basement banging the keys.

[save the frogs]

Here's my best legal advice.

 

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway

Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egMWlD3fLJ8

 

[Dan O]

What is she threatening to contact the police about? If bikes in her name nothing you can do as she owns them and also nothing to go to the police over.   You'rE not threatening her in some way are you? If so it won't end very well for you.  

[OneMoreFarang]

Theoretically speaking, what would you do if she would return all those bikes?

Would you sell them? How? They are not in your name, you can't legally sell them.

Would you rent them? It seems you legally can't do that.

 

If this is real, then IMHO try to make a deal with her. Sell them and share the profit. Ask for 50% but be prepared to accept less. Because it seems legally you have no alternative.

[OneMoreFarang]

4 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

Hookers make the worst biz partners, 555....

No, influential people are worse. If they work with you, then they can get things done.

And if, for whatever reason, then they work against you, then you are done. 

[rwill]

8 hours ago, Alexzweiner said:

Previously, we created a motorbike rental business.

Actually, "Previously, SHE created a motorbike rental business."

[BananaStrong]

1 hour ago, rwill said:

Actually, "Previously, SHE created a motorbike rental business."

Actually, we created a motorbike rental business.    She owned the business, and I helped create the business.

 

Own and create can be mutually exclusive.  

 

I created the cure for cancer, then Pfizer fired me and sold it as their own.   Happens.

 

 

[Paradise Pete]

The two most likely outcomes are:

 

1. She keeps the motorcycles.

2. She keeps the motorcycles and you get deported.

 

[Mickeymaus]

What you can do? Perhaps you can rent a bike from her.

[2baht]

Rule #1. Don't invest any more than you can afford to walk away from!

[sammieuk1]

Afraid you lost 500k or so don't do it again they are professionals ???? 

[Shop mak]

29 minutes ago, Paradise Pete said:

The two most likely outcomes are:

 

1. She keeps the motorcycles.

 

2. She keeps the motorcycles and you get deported.

 

 

Agree, if he don't hand over the remaining bikes asap, she has a strong case she can present to Police, and if she's really angry at him, she also goes to Immigration.

 

OP is silent, maybe he grasp his huge and costly mistake 250k-700k?

 

All could easily been avoided had OP asked on this forum earlier:

I and my thai gf of ? months want to start a motorcycle rental business. How should I go forward to avoid any problems?

[Andycoops]

If it's in her name it's hers, bad luck.

I put everything in my wife's name because I can't be arsed to deal with any fallout and it will be hers when I pop my clogs anyway.

 

I came to retire here not run a business in a foreign country after 40 years of working in the country of my birth.

[Elkski]

I wish honest OP questions like this didn't get such ridiculous replies.   I can see myself posting a question like this as I realized I may be in deep do do. 

[AhFarangJa]

There is really only one option...........

[SheungWan]

Lawyer.

[Elkski]

I do think the title is incorrect.   She owned them from day 1 and knew it.  Correct me if I'm wrong but the safer way to do this is to start a company with 3 employees and put the cycles in the company name. 

[OneMoreFarang]

21 minutes ago, Shop mak said:

I and my thai gf of ? months want to start a motorcycle rental business. How should I go forward to avoid any problems?

Marry her! 

[OneMoreFarang]

12 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

If it's in her name it's hers, bad luck.

I put everything in my wife's name because I can't be arsed to deal with any fallout and it will be hers when I pop my clogs anyway.

 

I came to retire here not run a business in a foreign country after 40 years of working in the country of my birth.

Not bad luck, bad decisions.

 

And only because you worked somewhere far away your whole life doesn't mean everybody does that. I realized that moving to Thailand will improve my life when I was still relatively young. ????