I spoke with the teelak a few days ago and seems she is having a bit of a land dispute with one

of the neighbors. It seems sometimes people want to grab a few meters of land here and there.

The problem is there are no visible official land markers, so told her to go to the Amphur and get a survey done.

I was surprised when she said they are very busy and will not be able to get to her place until the middle of

November.

She is in Buriram, does that sound like a reasonable time frame? Are they that busy? Does she

or can she speed the process up a little?

I would appreciate some advice from board members that have been to see the Amphur and how it all works.

Hi Mailman

My G/F and her family are having a similar problem over land.

At the end of July, we visited her village near Roi-et, and went to the local Government office to arrange for the surveyor to visit.

He could not visit until the end of September, so i don't think the problem is just in your area.

The land in our dispute is unused, so for us, the matter is not urgent. Therefore time is not a problem, but as TIT, i'm sure a few Hundred baht passed under the desk would help to 'oil the wheels' and speed things up for you

Regards

Jaiyenyen

I spoke with the teelak a few days ago and seems she is having a bit of a land dispute with one

of the neighbors. It seems sometimes people want to grab a few meters of land here and there.

The problem is there are no visible official land markers, so told her to go to the Amphur and get a survey done.

I was surprised when she said they are very busy and will not be able to get to her place until the middle of

November.

She is in Buriram, does that sound like a reasonable time frame? Are they that busy? Does she

or can she speed the process up a little?

I would appreciate some advice from board members that have been to see the Amphur and how it all works.

G'day Mailman,

When we bought our land it was re- surveyed and the Amphur gave us a drawing of our land and told us we had to locate the existing pegs, there were supposed to be 30 of then. It is an L shaped block with 5 neighbours. We couldnt find them all, only found 6 actually. Then we had to arrange for all neighbours to be present when the surveyors came out so they could re-peg the land to everyones agreement.

I remember we waited about a month for them to come out and it cost me a few bottle of Lao Kao to keep the neighbours from wandering off but it was all sorted out with 10 new pegs.

The surveyers said they were re-surveying a lot of land that new houses were being built on as existing records were poor in our part of the world.

Some tea money would speed things up if you are into that sort of thing

Khun Andy

In my area it is the same sort of time frame. My guess is that as a lot of land is not yet surveyed/registered, they are busy with that some of the time.

In Chiangrai:

When having a piece of land with a chanote resurveyed officially the land office must send a letter notifying the adjoining land owners that the survey will be carried out so that they can come and watch and make comments if they desire. This letter must be sent out a certain number of days in advance of the survey date (one month?...two months?...I don't know but I'm pretty sure it is one month or more) and that is one reason why it takes so much time before a surveyor can do the work. We have alway found that if we asked the surveyors to come and do a preliminary survey that they could do this within a couple of weeks. These have been small parcels with existing chanotes so that it was not a major piece of work to do the preliminary surveying.

Chownah

We have the same problem in Huairat, we have been trying to buy a small house in the nextvillage, land office must do a survey prior to the sale and its been three months??

Thanks for the replies with everyones experiences, seems like it does take a while to do an official survey with pegs. I can understand it takes time and why they want to notify the neighbors. Ron, three months for a survey in Huiarat, that is a long time though.

Since my teelak needs to know where the pegs (posts, stakes) are supposed to be before she can put up a fence and wall, we will have to wait, no rush.

Seems like the neighbor living in the house that she is having the dispute with, really doesn't own the chanote, someone else in the family probably does. So this neighbor shouldn't have a say in this, since she doesn't own the chanote.

Could get interesting, but we just want a fair survey and pegging to be done and don't want any funny business from this lady or her influencing the village boss. I really don't know how the village politics works, but have a feeling I'm going to find out. Thanks again

I can understand it takes time and why they want to notify the neighbors.

It is not all about notification delays - we want to divide a piece of land, so we are the people on both sides of the new boundary, but the delays are similar. Perhaps it is because we join a queue, and inherit their notification delays.

There could be other factors causing the delays. I’m told the surveyors could be contractors. As it’s coming up to the end of the financial year there may not be enough funding left in this years budget to pay these contractors.

We’ve just had land surveyed. We were lucky and it only took just over a week for them to survey after being asked. It took 2 visits. The first was to measure the land and the second about 1 week later to sign the documents.