Thread: Building a house on in-laws property

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

John G and Prag, why all the negative comments?

Cuz you're either a good troll or a very naive guy. I tend to think the first. Sorry.

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

The land will be in her name, the house both, so in the event things don't work out, the house gets split 50/50

How can you split a house 50/50 unless you can access the land to use your 50%? When/If you fall out you're fcuked 100%. Stop trying to convince yourself you've got all bases covered.

^Seen 'em come, and seen 'em go - for forty years now. You can't tell them anything. Don't even try. It's like trying to teach a pig to fly. It never works, and just pisses off the pig.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

The land will be in her name, the house both, so in the event things don't work out, the house gets split 50/50

How can you split a house 50/50 unless you can access the land to use your 50%? When/If you fall out you're fcuked 100%. Stop trying to convince yourself you've got all bases covered.

Nothing guaranteed that he might fall out.

You talk of this as it might be expected.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

You talk of this as it might be expected.

Plan for all senarios. Then if shit happens it won't come as such a shock.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Plan for all senarios. Then if shit happens it won't come as such a shock.

or, "Plan for the worst - anything better than that is just a bonus"

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

There is also a third choice. Coming on a tourist visa, asking for an extension for up to a year,

You won't get an extension for a year.

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

reporting every 90 days to the local amphur,

You don't report at the local ampur.

^ Give up Nev he's got all bases covered. My last post on this thread.

^No shit. Guy comes on a forum full of folks with decades of on the ground experience, and from the vantage point of Texas, wants to tell them how things really work in their country. No wonder bar girls walk around smiling..............

^ I don't think the Fredster is from Texas. Me thinks he's British and hates Americans.
Which is why he's passing himself off as a dumbfuck American.

Sorry Freddy baby...Fail.

$75k and wanting to retire in Thailand. Fogetaboutit Freddy I ain't gonna happen.

The giveaway was the response, when I sent Freddy a PM with info about the US Embassy; his response was typically British: aloof and somewhat ungracious. Definitely not a Texan.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Get the family to transfer the land into the child's name, when it''s born, their grandchild.

Can't have name on land papers til aged 21 is my understanding. If Sor Por Kor land then name on paper can only be change upon death of person on the paper. Legally cannot be transferred until then, so I believe.

You can legally put charnot or provincial title in a child's name, some land offices are a bit anti on it, but a land lawyer can fix it up in no time.

Good idea if you have kids, leave the land in your will to them, on one can touch it without a court order, until I think they reach 18 years old.

Sor Por Kor totally different story, it's crown land, you don't really own it in the first place.

You can change usership of Sor Por land before the owner dies, say the parents are getting on, they can hand it over to a son, or daughter to work, or a younger brother.

3 year rule comes in to force, if you let someone farm it for 3 plus years, or you don't farm it for 3 years, someone can claim it.

Best, cheapest land is possession land, no titles, farm it, pay the land taxes and it's yours. Charnot people come, you [Thai] get the title.

Putting land/house in the kids names, stops the outlaws. ex wife getting control, family court works on the bases of what's best for the kids.

Once you sign it over to your kids, your out of the loop as well, it's like a trust for their future.

Either way, living in rural Issan, if things go bad, your on your bike, not local, not welcome, just the way things are.

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

We are going to get the family property in wife's name, and the house will be in both of ours. John G and Prag, why all the negative comments? I was asking for advice here, because although I'm constantly researching ideas, including the legal issues regarding visas,and yes, 90 days at a time is a choice,with extensions up to a year possible, and I wanted the opinions of those that succeeded, not failed because they didn't treat their wives respectfully.

Because, if you're genuine which I'm finding increasingly hard to believe, you're delusional.

How has your research not told you that you CANNOT teach English unless you have a degree and are qualified?

That you CANNOT get a one year or even a 90 day extension on a tourist visa?

That you CANNOT make your 90 day report at the tessabaan / amphur?

That you CANNOT own half the house with your wife? etc, etc, etc

Get yourself some pigs and chickens, maybe some frog breeding tanks and start a small farm.

Also a Tefler certificate, then you can blag a job at a local government school for 30,000baht a month. Let them sort your visa or go off the grid and fook the visa.

Life too short.

Get on it like a car bonnet..

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

The land will be in her name, the house both, so in the event things don't work out, the house gets split 50/50, along with any assets accrued after the marriage.

If the marriage ends, how exactly will you use 50% of a house? They won't sell it because it is on their land. Would you feel comfortable entering their land to use your 50%?

Seriously Fred, take peoples advice and rent for a year before you take the plunge. And be very aware that people aren't just being negative, they are trying to help. It just sounds like negativity to a person with blinders on.

You keep saying women are the same everywhere. I, and others, can assure you that Thai women are a special breed unlike any other. Regardless of their backgrounds.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by thaimeme

You talk of this as it might be expected.

Plan for all senarios. Then if shit happens it won't come as such a shock.

Sage advice, but more often than not completely ignored due to excessive testosterone build-ups

I was actually thinking about renting for awhile,but as everyone knows, the funds are limited. It all depends on how much my house will cost after I talk things out with the builder, and how much profit I will have from the sale of my house. And mostly, I want to be with my wife and our soon to be child, so things have gone a tad faster than was planned. And although women all share the same kinds of traits, I know Thai's are a special breed with some distinct differences. I think I found a good one. Hope I'm right.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Get yourself some pigs and chickens, maybe some frog breeding tanks and start a small farm.

Also a Tefler certificate, then you can blag a job at a local government school for 30,000baht a month. Let them sort your visa or go off the grid and fook the visa.

Life too short.

Get on it like a car bonnet..

He could possibly upgrade himself slightly......

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

have done and have stayed there up to and over a year by reporting every 90 days to Chang Wattana Road in Bangkok and taking a border run to another country. I might be wrong about the amphur although a Thai friend here does it every year.

Sorry I have to come back. Why does a Thai have to do a 90 day report to their Amphur?

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

have done and have stayed there up to and over a year by reporting every 90 days to Chang Wattana Road in Bangkok and taking a border run to another country. I might be wrong about the amphur although a Thai friend here does it every year.

Sorry I have to come back. Why does a Thai have to do a 90 day report to their Amphur?

Yeah Prag , you 've got him by the gonards with that simple question

Originally Posted by fredwiggy

US citizen now, and that's what he said he does, along with two american friends he has. Sorry if I didn't get that one exactly right, but that's what he told me, and he goes back 4 times a year. Like I said, I'm here for advice, and will take all and sort out the bs from the helpful.

WALOB .

^ You're listening to the wrong people. The Thai/American is lying. He's having a laugh at your expense. Nobody is really being negative on this forum. It may come over as negative to you but you should pay more attention to it than people you know and lawyers.

he goes back 4 times a year.

And still has to report each time?

Everyone has their thoughts and opinions, and a lot I've heard for the last two years have been sound advice, and a lot isn't. I listen to everything I hear, and decide what is helpful, nonsense or just plain hurtful. Then I'll choose the route that works best for me. Either way, everything will work out for me because I will make it work out. When he stays longer than the 60 days you're allowed,or another 30 if extended, he said he has to report every 90 days and if he stays longer, he goes across the border and renews his visa. He was talking about himself and his friends that go to Thailand a lot and stay longer than the tourist visa allows.