torrenova

Not quite. The charges are put up by the quasi taxi drivers themselves and are a rip off. Better to get a driver to pick you up or just take your stuff to the baht buses in the street. Of course Carrefour deliver to Jomtien. You can buy as much booze as you want between 2pm and 5pm. You just have to buy 10 litres, which is about 1 1/2 boxes of beer. Carrefour will not deliver or look after perishables.

Where you are is better than the other options you were given. I lived there for a few years.

Not so. Your information would seem to be either incorrect, outdated or both.

I've stayed there when coming down from up country a couple of times as I missed the grub. Decent place, good bathrooms, little on the TV and small beds (like small doubles). Around Bt650/700 a night. OK for a couple of days, wouldn't want a month of it. As I said, in town and good if you like the grub.

Around NEP and Bt1000 ?? Ibis, Dynasty ? I pay Bt1700 or so and stay in luxury. Sod this 1000 max and shit idea.

It is marginally passable but you wouldn't want to have only Sophon. I think the Thais can get all their crap on True/UBC but Jacko is right about some football being on Sophon when I last looked at it (and not on UBC). UBC extra room is about Bt450 extra a month more (separate box and remote and cabling). We have it in the bedroom as well and in Pattaya had Sophon for something like the Bt3000 Jacko states. The thing with Sophon is that they continually changed stuff, cut programmes off before they finished, never started them, deleted them etc. It is a totally amateur service with only o

No worries.

Don't stay there or at the Miami either. Don't bother with the Nana either. Years ago it was shit but one of many fewer options than available today.

You could just make it invisible as well.

Don't know if the OP is aware but the website has some issues to sort out.

I have no specific advice but I have no doubt that the guys on Thai Visa have a solution. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Internet-com...cation-f17.html Try a post there.

I'd be interested as well.

Not sure what you mean here. Are you saying, purely as an example, that if you used Bt1000 of things you bought to sell Bt3000 worth, then you would have eaten and drank from that Bt1000 you bought or you would take it from the Bt2000 you made profit, reducing that profit to ??? Bt1500 ??? Not sure how you can do that as some things you don't buy everyday whereas some things you buy in bulk. Are you saying that over say a month, as an example, you spend Bt50,000 and sell it for Bt100,000, giving you Bt50,000 a month but that you don't know day on day how much you make because bills a

Classic Thai ( and in some cases western) stupidity. Open, new fittings and then never spend anything on maintenance nor replacing items. Every single day you have to put something away for refurbishment. If you spend it, there is nothing left and it all goes downhill.

Carrefour will deliver as stated but not perishables. A better bet IMHO is to get a car and driver and tell him that you want to go there, have an hour and come back. Door to door with everything and it should be around Bt300 or so.

I lived of Khao Talo as well and 2 bed houses started at 5k. You would never get them through an agent of course and at 5k, you;d have to be very lucky. Mostly 7k up. 3 bed detached with all new inside and garden for 12k.

So the effective rent is 100,000/12+5500=13,833 or 461 per day This 1500 profit, is that after taking any salary for you and mum ? What are the sales figures ? What are the bills ? Any reason why no TVs ? Is it that they cannot be secured ? or not allowed ?

You contradict yourself in one sentence. If someone is not happy with their profits, then they have profits, which goes against your attitude that most businesses lose money. Most businesses do not lose money. What has happened is that they are not making what they once did and now that level has fallen below what is required for a single small business operator to live comfortably. That means that the value of their business is worth less than before and the risk of losing money is higher, further depressing the true market price but owners cannot get out for a decent price and thus remai

Chuck your money on black or red, you have at least a 50% chance of doubling it. Or walk away with 100%. You are in over your knowledge threshold with this one I'm afraid.

Indeed. Though I suspect his health failing this past year didn't help when it came to keeping two eyes on the ball. He was a westerner who rented to Thais.

If you have significant other income it can form part of a balanced portfolio but if you have time and want to manage it, then no because the returns are low. High inward costs, you won't get regular Thais paying anywhere near those prices for property of that type unless in very specific areas and even then, unlikely IMHO. You need near 100% occupancy to make a half decent percentage return. There is money to be made in building it, renting it out and selling it at a vastly inflated price to some dumb westerner. Thais build them on land they already own. When you factor in buying the

Some bloke on another forum came on and said he was the MD and majority shareholder of the group which owns Peppermint, Beach Club and Happy. They have just bought Sisterz, will knock it out in a new format (same same I'd guess) and he was a 50% shareholder in Baccara. The Baccara deal seemed a separate one, his personally, rather than the group.

You'd be amazed at what people remember about rooms and why they choose this over that. Reverse the argument for a minute. Would you rather have 50% occupancy without replacing the TVs or full occupancy and "lose" Bt22 per day for the TV ? 1 extra room rented per day more than pays for all the TVs. The hotel business is a marginal game. You need bums on beds. Plasma/LCD tvs, free wi-fi, good beds, top shower, don't use the shittest bog roll available, put in an amenity kit for people who have booked more than a week, it all puts you ahead of the game and crucially, you get repeat business.

You cannot get comprehensive insurance on smaller bikes. We had some and dumped them when we could not get realistic cover. The profit on many rental schemes comes from the fact that the insurance is not legit. It is 1st class but not for hiring out the vehicles. Claim and they want you to pretend to be a "friend". On the face of it, renting a truck seems a great business. Near top range, Bt800,000, 20% down and around Bt12.5k a month. You can rent Bt1500 a day or Bt25k a month. Seems like a great deal if you can get more than 50% rentals. Even put down the full 800k, depreciation is 1

I'd be more inclined for the UK to match Thailand's contribution of $20,000. Charity begins at home and the UK doesn't have enough for its own people.