Hi,
Coxo. even with a new lady. if the house is in your name and you have a 30 year lease on the land, from the landowner, your T.G. cannot kick you out. This land lease can also be extended. You can kick her out. Do the bying through the proper chs., and correctly,
Keep a landlord happy and rich and rent, rent. rent.
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Keep a land lord happy and rich ! i pay £135 a month and im happy, three year lease and if i get fed up i can move on ,
If i buy i spend may be two million bahts have noisy neighbours move next door or the powers to be decide not to renew my visa , do not ever forget you are living in a thirld world country corruption is the norm here and you are a alien so dont forget you will never be one of them . I enjoy living here but am aware it can go pear shape with the blink of a eye, i if i invest my money the powers to be have me over a barrel , i intend to stay while it is cheap to live here but my advice is
RENT dont worry about some one getting rich good luck to them if you think £135 makes them rich.
If you wish to invest then good luck to you .
If i buy i spend may be two million bahts have noisy neighbours move next door or the powers to be decide not to renew my visa , do not ever forget you are living in a thirld world country corruption is the norm here and you are a alien so dont forget you will never be one of them . I enjoy living here but am aware it can go pear shape with the blink of a eye, i if i invest my money the powers to be have me over a barrel , i intend to stay while it is cheap to live here but my advice is
RENT dont worry about some one getting rich good luck to them if you think £135 makes them rich.
If you wish to invest then good luck to you .
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urban legend
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mykthemin wrote:Totally the wrong advise in my opinion, BUY BUY BUY!!!
mmmm but does "buy buy buy" become "give give give" i suggest you think about it over a warn lipton and a few oreos
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No different to the uk if you have children as I do.
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Just so much cheaper here!
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Well...I thought perhaps I can contribute to this subject for a change!
Having read many replies/options before I went to Udon Thani, my experiences last month are:
1) Rental companies are a waste of time. They either do not turn up for appointments or have no properties to rent.
2) What I did was a) rent a car b) look at http://www.udonmap.com/udon-thani/real- ... ments.html and drive around them.
3) Talk to managers at each site you like (or better,if gated, talk to the gatekeepr about properties that might be available.
4) by doing this we found a hosue for rent at Baan Chonrada for 13000 baht /month.
Comments on other developments:
Koman City: Nice houses, but streets are not maintained and grass growing on the pavements. Around 18,000 baht/month
Maliwan Villas: Poor quality and expensive ..12-20,000 / month
Thana Homes: Disappointing...not good, small
The Resort (Baan Krang) - very nice, tidy, clean, single storey...but no rentals, only sales
Baan Chankarn - Gated, nice...only to Buy.
Green Residence: Seems a bit out of the city but acually only about 15 mintues. Good quality but small development for sale only, although Andreas would work out a deal for interim rental. Houses well built.
Spent a lot of time looking.....any questions fire away....
Having read many replies/options before I went to Udon Thani, my experiences last month are:
1) Rental companies are a waste of time. They either do not turn up for appointments or have no properties to rent.
2) What I did was a) rent a car b) look at http://www.udonmap.com/udon-thani/real- ... ments.html and drive around them.
3) Talk to managers at each site you like (or better,if gated, talk to the gatekeepr about properties that might be available.
4) by doing this we found a hosue for rent at Baan Chonrada for 13000 baht /month.
Comments on other developments:
Koman City: Nice houses, but streets are not maintained and grass growing on the pavements. Around 18,000 baht/month
Maliwan Villas: Poor quality and expensive ..12-20,000 / month
Thana Homes: Disappointing...not good, small
The Resort (Baan Krang) - very nice, tidy, clean, single storey...but no rentals, only sales
Baan Chankarn - Gated, nice...only to Buy.
Green Residence: Seems a bit out of the city but acually only about 15 mintues. Good quality but small development for sale only, although Andreas would work out a deal for interim rental. Houses well built.
Spent a lot of time looking.....any questions fire away....
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My ten penneth .... gotta be so careful if buying or building in turn willing to take the risk involved red tape /ownership etc ... not to mention the stress in dealing with builders (see UM thread ref building a house)
Renting ..... probably the best route for a few years to acclimatise both culturally and access the happyness factor , and bear in mind the area around the house you may rent will probably change within the rental period ,,, as in some cases where housing developments get turned over to the Tessaban n usually things start to go tits up .
We all have differing views just jump on the merry go round and enjoy the ride .
mash
Renting ..... probably the best route for a few years to acclimatise both culturally and access the happyness factor , and bear in mind the area around the house you may rent will probably change within the rental period ,,, as in some cases where housing developments get turned over to the Tessaban n usually things start to go tits up .
We all have differing views just jump on the merry go round and enjoy the ride .
mash
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No one can guarantee that the price of homes will "always go up." They crashed in Thailand in 1997, and in the US not long ago. In both events, people were feverishly buying property into a bubble because "it always goes up so better buy now." A lot of people lost all of their money and their homes.
So there are no guarantees. Udon may not be so bad, but Chiang Mai and Bangkok as examples are way overbuilt, prices to buy are high, square meter sizes have shrunk, many units are empty, and rent is cheap. Maybe I'd like to sit on the sidelines and see how this washes out.
No one can predict the future.
Renting allows me to move about if I want. Renting keeps me from being scammed on a purchase.
I know a guy who leased land in a medium sized village in Isaan and built a house for himself and his Thai wife. A year later the land owner and about a dozen of his thugs demanded the land back, illegally. What difference does "legal" make if you are being threatened, and are afraid you will be found dead in a forest? The owner brought thugs who actually moved his belongings into the street. The police wouldn't stop it. The Amphur wouldn't stop it. Authorities wouldn't stop the Thais.
Now the man and his wife are renting and afraid to go back to the house the man owns.
This is not mentioning all of the houses that have been lost because the farang didn't get fair treatment against a Thai wife by the courts or the Amphur.
I have seen the same thing with a lease where a year's rent was paid in advance, and the renter was ordered to move with no offer of a return of the rent or the deposit. Veiled threats were enough that the farang moved and lost about 100,000 bht. Only if the landlord was a solid, regular landlord with multiple rentals and a good reputation with renters would I pay a year's rent in advance.
After living through the recent real estate crash in the US, I won't listen to people who tell me the value of a house has to always go up. There is no way they can know that.
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So there are no guarantees. Udon may not be so bad, but Chiang Mai and Bangkok as examples are way overbuilt, prices to buy are high, square meter sizes have shrunk, many units are empty, and rent is cheap. Maybe I'd like to sit on the sidelines and see how this washes out.
No one can predict the future.
Renting allows me to move about if I want. Renting keeps me from being scammed on a purchase.
I know a guy who leased land in a medium sized village in Isaan and built a house for himself and his Thai wife. A year later the land owner and about a dozen of his thugs demanded the land back, illegally. What difference does "legal" make if you are being threatened, and are afraid you will be found dead in a forest? The owner brought thugs who actually moved his belongings into the street. The police wouldn't stop it. The Amphur wouldn't stop it. Authorities wouldn't stop the Thais.
Now the man and his wife are renting and afraid to go back to the house the man owns.
This is not mentioning all of the houses that have been lost because the farang didn't get fair treatment against a Thai wife by the courts or the Amphur.
I have seen the same thing with a lease where a year's rent was paid in advance, and the renter was ordered to move with no offer of a return of the rent or the deposit. Veiled threats were enough that the farang moved and lost about 100,000 bht. Only if the landlord was a solid, regular landlord with multiple rentals and a good reputation with renters would I pay a year's rent in advance.
After living through the recent real estate crash in the US, I won't listen to people who tell me the value of a house has to always go up. There is no way they can know that.
$.02
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With all due respect, I believe that planning permission is required. It just isn't enforced. But some day if the Thais go on a campaign of enforcement, some people might be required to tear down houses that were built without permission.mykthemin wrote:Buy some land and build what you want, and no planning permission required, just do it!
Today isn't always the same as tomorrow, and I'm not a seer.
Just sayin'.
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Planning permission IS a requirement but you can get it 'after the fact' with minimal fuss and baht. I seriously doubt that they would force someone to tear down a completed house in lieu of a wedge being passed under the table with a back-dated planning request.AllThai wrote:With all due respect, I believe that planning permission is required. It just isn't enforced. But some day if the Thais go on a campaign of enforcement, some people might be required to tear down houses that were built without permission.mykthemin wrote:Buy some land and build what you want, and no planning permission required, just do it!
Today isn't always the same as tomorrow, and I'm not a seer.
Just sayin'.