Thread: Building permit problem.. Phangan

Think making progress on this one at last... Interpretation of law is correct... Farang can own house on leased land... And assembling the documentaion to enable this isnt straitforward of course... Its Thailand!.... As and when Im successful (not to be beaten on this) will post a detailed 'how to do it'!

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Good luck mate.

For me it's always been the fact that even though you may have a legal lease Thailand is the Wild West where Authorities can be paid off.

So in the event the guy who grants the 30 year lease wants his land back, if he is a nasty bastard he will have you of it one way or another.

It ain't that uncommon.

Thailand's a friggin gong show mate if one tries to treat it as a real country.

Hence I just rent shit.

Originally Posted by Phanganguy

Think making progress on this one at last... Interpretation of law is correct... Farang can own house on leased land... And assembling the documentaion to enable this isnt straitforward of course... Its Thailand!.... As and when Im successful (not to be beaten on this) will post a detailed 'how to do it'!

Good luck.

Nobody (except the planning office!) is disagreeing with you and the law is very clear, but I still think, as did other posters, that you are going about this completely the wrong way and all you will do is alienate the planning office unnecessarily.

Even if they grant you planning permission, which they aren't obliged to do even if your application is legal, you may have upset them and you will only know how much when it comes to them signing off that you have built the house 'as approved'. If your roof slope's out by half a degree, you've changed the design even minutely or you've just made a window too big or too small they can refuse to sign off. You'll never know that until you've finished building the house, and I wouldn't want that hanging over me or to be unable to risk changing my mind as the build progressed.

Quote the rule book at some petty official anywhere and even if he smiles nicely he might have a long memory - you may win the battle, but one way or another he's more likely to win a war if he picks one.

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Or he has already pissed off the wrong guy and they will simply say no.

If they say yes, they may just have lots of fun making the farangs life a fuking misery.

Or he may be Ok and all is good.

33.3 % chance of success.

I'd be renting.