Advice Needed re. Pattaya Real Estate

[thebounder]

to the bounder ,   would you please tell me how you come to all your conclusions , because your so off the mark its unreal ,   that you can try and advice some one who wants to make a investment in tailand , are you living in thailand our are you sitting in the U K with your finger wedge up giving the wroung advice to total strangers, if you need to e mail me to get the right advice feel free , they dont call me poppa for nothing

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Actually I am a qualified lawyer, living and working in Thailand and people pay me for my advice on exactly these sorts of matters. I would be very interested to hear in which respects I am "so off the mark it is unreal". I base my conclusions on the law and on extensive experience of how it operates. If you advise people any other way, then you represent a great danger to them. I can only guess they call you poppa cos you are past it and have no idea what you are talking about.

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i am a lawyer, i think says it all , dont you know lawyers have the worst reputation in the world for ripping people off,

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Even though I am the one telling the guy to keep his money in his pocket and exercise caution until he has come over here and made sure he is aware of all the possible pitfalls...an obvious attempt to rip him off.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Much worse

[Dragonman]

Much worse 

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[Tolley]

I wouldn't rush into anything in the way of investments in Thailand unless of course you can afford to lose the money.

I don't know what country you come from but in Australia there are ample safe business investments which can gurantee a nice rate of return.

Why not invest in your own country and live off the returns in Thailand?

Rent is very cheap and when you are sick of the place you can just up and leave.

Investing in Thailand is for the canny and connected.....

And to help you in your decision.....here is a little anecdote from last week.....I was opening a bank account at the Kasikorn Bank in Pattaya and the lady said to me that many farangs come to Pattaya open accounts with lots of money for business and leave with nothing.....straight from the horses mouth so to speak.....

BTW If you want to open an account you have to have a letter signed from immigration plus your passport but that is all.

It took me an hour but i had a connection in Pattaya immigration.

[barryofthailand]

The Bouinder is exactly correct. Thai law states a foreighner cannot perform any work that a Thai national can do, and will not be issued a work permit for such work.

Barry