Landlord with retirement visa: what am I allowed to do?

[Lazinonthebeach]

I bought the house next to mine because it was a good deal and I wanted some control over who got it and to have a place for my friends who visit.  But now I hear I can't even do the TM30 and that I can't advertise it on Facebook without riskof  losing my retirement visa as I can't legally work.  What can I legally do or how can I resolve these problems? I'm on Ko Samui.

[Captain Flack]

I have moved this topic into the Thai Visa section, so hopefully the OP will get the required advice.

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, Lazinonthebeach said:

What can I legally do or how can I resolve these problems?

Employ a Thai person to be your (house) companies property manager.

Edited 9 hours ago by BritManToo

[Maestro]

2 hours ago, Lazinonthebeach said:

...What can I legally do or how can I resolve these problems? I'm on Ko Samui.

 

As the owner of a house, you can legally rent it out without losing your retirement extension.

[Pattaya57]

How did you buy the house next door when not Thai? House can't be in your name as an existing house on land cannot be sold to non-thai 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Pattaya57

[jas007]

2 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

How did you buy the house next door when not Thai? House can't be in your name as an existing house on land cannot be sold to non-thai 

 

Isn't there some way you can do a long term land lease for the land, and somehow buy the actual house as a separate transaction?

 

To th original poster:  I'd just hire a rental agency and turn it all over to them.  They'd get a small cut of the monthly rent. 

Edited 5 hours ago by jas007

[NoDisplayName]

Who owns the land?

 

If you own the house only, and someone else controls the land, what's to stop them from, well............just about anything?

[Pattaya57]

8 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Isn't there some way you can do a long term land lease for the land, and somehow buy the actual house as a separate transaction?

A Thai wife can buy the land and a foreigner can then buy the house going on that land, but a foreigner cannot buy an existing house and land being re-sold like OP says he did

Edited 5 hours ago by Pattaya57

[jas007]

3 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

A Thai wife can buy the land and a foreigner can then buy the house going on that land, but a foreigner cannot buy an existing house and land being re-sold like OP says he did

Maybe he said "bought" in a broad sense.  You can "buy" a 30 year lease, right?  I see properties advertised like that sometimes.  Someone buys a land lease with an existing structure, then at some later date wants to sell the lease.  So it's advertised as a land lease sale with X number of years remaining. 

 

My only question is if the house can be separated from the land lease once the lease is a done deal. 

[jas007]

To follow up: if the original lessor (Thai person who owns the land) wanted to at some later date negotiate a sale of the house structure separate from the land, wouldn't that be possible? 

[DrJack54]

1 hour ago, jas007 said:

My only question is if the house can be separated from the land lease once the lease is a done deal. 

And my frustration is with Threads like this with vague OP and after opening thread vanishes.

 

Myself and another guy have hit 2 confused emoji.

Until OP clarifies its waste of time posting guess work