Tirak wants to build a wall to divide her land from the adjoining block. She's owned the land for 20 something years and has all the documents pertaining to ownership. The issue is she's not absolutely certain exactly where the boundary line is between her block and the neighbor's block. She knows approximately where it is but she's concerned if she gets the wall built and it's over on the neighbor's land a bit then there'll be problems. So today she went to the pak thong chai (Korat) amphur and applied to have someone come out and mark exactly where the boundary of her land is. She paid almost 5000 Bt fee, then after she paid the fee the mongrels informed her that someone will come and inspect the land in 3 months time. Trouble is we already have a builder lined up and have the blocks and posts ready to build the wall. We thought it would take a few days to get this decided not 3 damn months. So has anyone dealt with this issue before and if so what's the solution other than sitting around for 3 months? 

I think they will do it quicker ,, for more money , been there done that.

regards worgeordie

Not sure who's the mongrel here. Smart people inform themselves first. ????

You can normally pay an express fee to the Land Office to get the surveying team out a bit quicker.

 

You won't get a receipt.

7 hours ago, Pitak Chirachat said:

Not sure who's the mongrel here. Smart people inform themselves first. ????

Well the only way to inform oneself is to talk directly with the land office, which she did. She couldn't take it any further without paying the fee. After paying the fee her application moved forward, and they told her it'll take place in 3 months. IMHO the mongrel should have made that clear before taking the fee.

1 hour ago, blackcab said:

You can normally pay an express fee to the Land Office to get the surveying team out a bit quicker.

 

You won't get a receipt.

Yes, I think she should try again after Songkran and see if she can do that.

A wall was built between two houses in our village. There was a dispute about the position and the land office was called in to resolve it.

They came in a couple of days and the wall had to be dismantled immediately. So they can act quickly if they want.

1 hour ago, grain said:

Well the only way to inform oneself is to talk directly with the land office, which she did. She couldn't take it any further without paying the fee. After paying the fee her application moved forward, and they told her it'll take place in 3 months. IMHO the mongrel should have made that clear before taking the fee.

If you search the property on their titles map it tells you how long you need to wait for a survey.  https://landsmaps.dol.go.th/

One option might be to negotiate with the neighbor, either giving up a bit of land, or offering monetary compensation if the wall goes over onto their land. Tell the Land Office the survey is no longer necessary, good luck asking for a refund.

Otherwise, welcome to Thailand, where nothing gets done fast without palms being greased.

Just think about it this way. There may only be 1 survey team to cover the whole province and with Songkran and all the other holidays plus the election coming up. There are many days removed from the working days list plus if they can find any other reason to have a day off. An example of this is last night the wife and I went to Big C and while we were there we thought that we would have something to eat in the in the food hall but "NO" they were all closed because many of them had returned to their villages for Songkran already and it was only 18:15 when they would not normally close until 20:00 and on the way home I noticed that there were many small businesses and street stalls already closed for Songkran. The shop where my wife works closed on Monday 10th at 18:00 and will not open again until 08:00 on Monday the 17th. Check the other government and Buddha holidays and you would see that it could take 3 months for them to get to you. So just settle down and wait.

Amazing, you want to built. You arranged all, BUT knowing if the land is yours.

Wouldnt that be point one on the agenda?

Sit down and wait now or as suggested maybe an additional fee works.

We have just purchased some land and the chanote needs splitting, the land surveyor wait time in Ubon is 10 weeks.

My wife said there was the option for a fast track service for an extra fee. 

We had to wait about 6 weeks for the survey.