Replacement Chanote Marker

[recom273]

I have a series of problems with my next door neighbor and its his intention to make my life hell, its been going on for 2 years already. He's a bully, and I presume a racist, as he goes around the village telling everyone he hates "farang".

 

To cut a long story short, I filled an area of land, looking at the photos, unintentionally, we covered the post. then in the subsequent months we removed a little soil to expose 6 inches or so and allowed rough grass to grow up around the area.

 

Now I have come to clear the area with a view to turfing it, my gardener pulled the grass up and started breaking up the soil with a hoe. After clearing the grass I put up a string line, (to mark a no-go area of land that belongs to the neighbour) The top of the chanote marker is broken, the post is still under the ground, there is just a metal bar reenforcement protruding above ground. I presume the elements just destroyed it, I dont think anyone worked around the area in the past. 

 

He's now going off at the wife saying our gardener has smashed the top of the post, when he was working the soil, which is not true, it was broken even before we pulled weeds. He wants us to go to the land office and get them to come and replace it.

 

Does anyone have any experience in this? Does the land office come around and replace the post? I read a couple of Thai sites and they said that some times the land office will ask to see a picture and decide, but I dont want to waste my time sitting there for a couple of hours if the answer is "that's ok, the post is under the ground." 

 

The post is touching his boundary wall, my wall is in line with the marker, there is a gap, the same distance as the post for the length of the garden. The is no confusion, he built his wall first before I built the land, the post hasn't been moved and we have had a visit from the land office when we combined some chanotes and they remeasured the plot.

 

Its all rather unnecessary tbh.

 

tldr - does the land office go around replacing chanote markers that have minimal damage?

 

 

 

 

[KhunLA]

If his wall is on the border of the land, then why does he care.  I would ignore him.   Especially if you had the land surveyed, and posted already, and you know your boundary.

 

If not, maybe have land office survey & repost, and with any luck, his wall will be on your land 

 

Just ignore him, and suggest the wife to also.   And I mean, literally walk away while he's trying to talk to you or wife.   Soon he'll stop.

 

Or you could whistle the Thai national anthem while he's trying to talk you, as that drives them nuts 

[BritManToo]

Why is it up to you to get it replaced?

It's his boundary post too.

[recom273]

@KhunLA exactly, because he says it’s illegal. He’s confused, it’s illegal to move a post. 
 

I think this is the best idea, he is a bully, he is a money lender, and he just gets what he wants by bullying the headman or tessaban. 
 

We both know where our land starts and finishes, we built walls - lol 

 

@BritManToo because he’s accusing my guys (whoever has worked on the house over the duration of the build) of breaking it.

 

Last week he was moaning about mud on his drive - he said he picked it up when passing my driveway. Fact that he also drove to the city and back every day to collect money is beyond him. Next he will be accusing me of making it rain or something. He’s a strange one. 

[soi3eddie]

 

Land office will come out and re-measure with GPS and replace the post/s if any missing or broken. It will cost a fee. IIRC it was about 4,000 Baht 15+ years ago.

 

My wife (and I), had rice field land, a neighbour removed the markers and extended his farm crops at least 2 metres into our land. We arranged with the land office and they came, measured and reinstalled the markers. We then ensured the boundary by adding much bigger posts so that they would not get overgrown or covered in earth.

 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

because he’s accusing my guys (whoever has worked on the house over the duration of the build) of breaking it.

 

Just deny it.

[SAFETY FIRST]

7 hours ago, recom273 said:

I have a series of problems with my next door neighbor and its his intention to make my life hell, its been going on for 2 years already. He's a bully, and I presume a racist, as he goes around the village telling everyone he hates "farang".

 

To cut a long story short, I filled an area of land, looking at the photos, unintentionally, we covered the post. then in the subsequent months we removed a little soil to expose 6 inches or so and allowed rough grass to grow up around the area.

 

Now I have come to clear the area with a view to turfing it, my gardener pulled the grass up and started breaking up the soil with a hoe. After clearing the grass I put up a string line, (to mark a no-go area of land that belongs to the neighbour) The top of the chanote marker is broken, the post is still under the ground, there is just a metal bar reenforcement protruding above ground. I presume the elements just destroyed it, I dont think anyone worked around the area in the past. 

 

He's now going off at the wife saying our gardener has smashed the top of the post, when he was working the soil, which is not true, it was broken even before we pulled weeds. He wants us to go to the land office and get them to come and replace it.

 

Does anyone have any experience in this? Does the land office come around and replace the post? I read a couple of Thai sites and they said that some times the land office will ask to see a picture and decide, but I dont want to waste my time sitting there for a couple of hours if the answer is "that's ok, the post is under the ground." 

 

The post is touching his boundary wall, my wall is in line with the marker, there is a gap, the same distance as the post for the length of the garden. The is no confusion, he built his wall first before I built the land, the post hasn't been moved and we have had a visit from the land office when we combined some chanotes and they remeasured the plot.

 

Its all rather unnecessary tbh.

 

tldr - does the land office go around replacing chanote markers that have minimal damage?

 

 

 

 

Time to move. 

 

[recom273]

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Time to move. 

 

lol - we just finished building the house!!

 

It’s fine, we each have about 1/3-3/4 Rai each - I can ignore him, but the fun thing is .. he can’t seem to let things drop. 
 

However, apparently he can’t ignore my surround sound system and for some reason his wifi network keeps on deauthenticating all the devices in his home 🤫

[metisdead]

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