jackcorbett

After I bought this condo a large amount of time went by before either I or anybody else was able to get a house book and clear title through the land office. Well.....that has now been finalized. One of the last steps through this process was that each and every one of us had to provide proof through our bank that the funds we used to buy our condos did in fact come from our home countries and not Thailand. When I first bought my condo, the developer recommended that we wire money directly into the developing company's account. I said I'd prefer to wire money from my U.S. bank account dir

How about a pyramid scheme? Any one of them will do. Proof? Just make a phone call and check it out and they'll tell you about all the people who started with nothing, worked just four hours a day, and became millionaires within four years. Here's a phone number you can try right now to get the scoop from the horse's ass's mouth itself. 1-414-deluded.

Speaking as a farmer who has a farm that raises corn and soybeans we farmers have been forced to sell ahead, oftentimes before being sure there is going to be a crop. Needless to say an awful lot of money is riding on whether these commodities rise or fall and when we sell our grain whether it's the cash crop or on the board of trade. Needless to say there's been a lot of outfits trying to sell various "marketing tools" to help enable us farmers spread our risk due to market fluctuations and in the past 35 years I've not seen a single one of them do any better than the dartboard approach. A

For the past year and a half my bank has been sending me monthly statements to Pattaya. It only takes a week to ten days to get them. I also use Skype to stay in touch with my bank by voice and of course, email. Same with my C.P.A. in the U.S. But in the past few days I found out that my U.S. bank had finally implemented online banking. As for transferring money I have money wired from my U.S. bank to my Thai bank account every three to six months. I use ATM cards, one for my U.S. bank account and one for my Thai bank account. As for my credit card company I get my statements sent to me

Just prior to my permanently moving to Pattaya I applied for and got my retirement visa at the Chicago Thai Consulate. I simply visited my sister in Chicago staying there for three days. On the third day I went back to the Consulate to get my retirement visa. This consulate was very gracious and cooperative. I needed to prove 1. 800,000 baht in my U.S. bank account, produce the medical certificate, produce the police report I got from the Illinois State Police, fill in the correct forms and that was that. As for the medical certificate, I visited an office manager at the doctor's office

I went through Ponthep Werachon (038-300-967) when I bought my condo. He's Thai, but his English is excellent. He's the man writing many articles for the newspapers in English about property law here in Thailand so you've probably already seen his picture.

Great pictures Mark. Where did you take most of them?

Just went to Carre Four to TTNT's office. Everyone was unsure of who was supplying the incoming phone line into the condo....TTNT or TOT. If it were TOT TTNT could not give me a line. But afterwards I checked at the condo's office and found that our main line is from TTNT. My girlfriend has told me that TOT is not all that concerned with getting new customers whereas she felt TTNT is. So it looks like we can get a line into my condo without too great a wait and that I might be the guinea pig here.

Here at Wongamat Residence Condos the promised high speed internet connection for every condo owner has proven to be a complete failure. Overall speed is comparable to dialup service while reliability has gone from being unacceptable to an expected complete loss of service nearly every day for at least a couple of hours. However, we are being billed just 130 baht a month, so we are getting exactly what we are paying for–very little for very little cash outlay. Condo management started with TRUE but after completely unsatisfactory results it switched to TOT. Again–our service was terri

Obviously there is a reason I posed the question about the school bus accident that Thursday North of Chiang Rai. It involved my live in girl friend. A phone call comes in from the Chiang Rai area around 7 p.m. It is from my gf's parents. Her little girl is in the hospital and has not been discharged. Next day my gf goes to Chiang Rai. As of 7 p.m. the night of the accident the little girl seemed seriously injured. Temporarily on a respirator. Possible glass in her eye from sitting at a window on the school bus. Later that night my gf gets call from her father that perhaps it is not a

What supposedly occurred is a bus carrying a bunch of factory workers ran a light after which it collided with a school bus. Two children died on the spot and two died in the hospital within hours of the accident. The accident occurred North of Chiang Rai on Thursday around 3:30 p.m. This might have been on the news or perhaps someone here has heard about the accident.

The person wanting a place to stay in Jomtien will be here in one week upon which he intends to stay two months. He is wanting to stay in Jomtien, preferably down by the ocean and wants a place with a swimming pool. He's looking for something in the 15000 baht per month range.

I'll go over in the next day or so to take another look at Nova Mirage. There is of course, the first building where Tommy has his Nova Mirage Restaurant where there's damn good coffee, terrific bread, real bacon, etc and I think this is what you are referring to. I'm not sure you are aware of two new buildings simultaneously going up behind this first building. Then there's that open space on the other side of Park Beach condo. I think there will be some building going up there soon. Then there are the back areas. For instance there are a couple of streets that extend towards Naklu

Update on Northpoint condos----My gf and I walked over to Northpoint down the Beach and we took a tour of the place. There are display condos here already and these displays are very nicely done. There are going to be two towers, the North Tower and the South Tower. One will be 46 stories high, the other 54. Very closeby are the Skybeach condos which are over 40 stories high. If one were to walk North along the beach from the site of Northpoint there is the Park Beach condo building at 30 stories and a third sister complex just a bit further North at about the same height. But if one wer

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When I try to post a reply to the hotel reviews section all I get is a black screen that appears to be the background for this topic area and I am stopped right then and there. A friend of mine brought this problem to my attention as he could not add comments I tried to help him out and now I am encoutering the same problem....but only in the hotel reviews section as all other topic areas are working fine.

I used to run into young marines quite often at a place called Big Daddy's Cabaret in Missouri. This is a strip club several miles from Fort Leanard Wood, a U.S. military base engaged in further training U.S. servicemen once they had gone through basic training camp. Because of the night club's proximity to Fort Leonard Wood, its clientelle was overwhelmingly military. At that time I used to do a lot of photography in strip clubs because I was writing for several adult magazines. The name of the game is always to get the best pictures possible and this meant running all around the club in o

One year ago last April, I bought a condo here at Wongamat Beach for 27,381 baht per square meter. The place, Wongamat Residence is just one half a kilo from Northpoint so I often get a good look at the work in progress at this new development. Seems like everything is appreciably higher now than when I made this investment. As to investing in a car to get around here, that choice would be up to you. I get by just fine with a Yamaha Nuevo automatic that I paid around $1400 U.S. for. Most guys living at Wongamat Residence drive bikes although some have opted for cars to escape the dange

There's a new fly in the ointment. For two days all internet connections here have been down. But thanks to my pal who just got here from the U.S. we've found the most recent culprits have not been TOT but at least two Westerners living in the condos here at Wongamat Residence. Here's what has happened. My ip address should be automatically changed but it should always be in a range that goes like this. 10.0.0.10. But we've found that the ip address on both my wireless connection with the laptop and the desktop that is connected directly to the wall has been assigned an ip address that

Dotcom.....I hear you loud and clear. I am presently on my laptop. Friend of mine on the desktop and I am using a wireless connection but I have a wireless access point plugged into a jack. Works fine for a second computer here but I agree, best to rely on the tested proven hard wired setup and keep the laptop and wireless just for the home network which probably does lose some speed for the laptop.

I have a Yamaha Nouvo which I like very much. As most here already know it is fully automatic and it has a long life drive belt instead of a chain. It seemed to have this market segment all to itself but now Honda has introduced the Honda Click and the Honda Air Blade. Whereas the Nouvo has a 115 cc. air cooled engine, the other two machines have 110 cc's. Like the Nouvo the Click and Airblade are fully auto with drive belts but they are water cooled unlike the air cooled Nouvo. I've heard the horsepower is the same but I've also heard the two Honda entries have more horsepower since they

Finally.....back online. And TOT is finally sending someone over, tomorrow....Shows how much this company is concerned with customer service. Talked with Helmut today who is the ramrod getting this condo done. He said Wongamat Residence started with TRUE, which was really bad. He said a few other things I will not repeat here but it had something to do with being cheated. I agree that we all need to stick together to give ourselves a little clout. By the way, an English pal of mine turned me onto a man I had met a few times before. A Dutchman who owns the first bar on the South si

I just came back from the U.S. TOT connection down for nine more days. tot At 2nd Internet cafe with no proxy. My theory is TOT must keep Internet cafes going as they are businesses but they give the shaft to residents of condos figuring condo owners have more money than brains. I have a test and would appreciate help from as many of you as possible. Try going to http://www.alphapro.com//YaBB.pl and see if you can get in as I have disallowed proxy access This will determine if your residence connection goes through a proxy or not. Then, please message me if you can get in or not

About ten days ago, for five days out of seven, I was completely unable to send out anything on the Internet, including e-mail. Then someone came out from TOT who downloaded a file that changed configuration settings and voila I could now makes.changes to my web site, send emails, etc but my renewed ability to actually accomplish something online must have lasted for 2 days tops. I had to go to the U.S. for a week. BUt I've been calling my Thai girlfriend back at the condo who tells me we've not had internet access for five days now. So for the past two weeks we've been doing withou

Alan.....the owner of the Pattaya International Hospital was sitting next to me that day he spoke at the expats meeting. I found what he said to be ambiguous on this subject. I might be wrong, but the way I took it, was he meant his statement about Pattaya's water to be tongue in cheek......that is, a lot of the water being sold as "pure water" is just as pure as Pattaya's City Water (meaning he's sure some of it no more than Pattaya's City water which obviously is unpure).