Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
One plot carries three prices answering three different questions. Here is what the assessed value is for, why it sits below the market, when it sits above, and five ways to find the real market price.
TOU does not make electricity cheaper all day, it makes weekday daytime dearer too, and the On Peak band runs thirteen hours. Here is how to work it out from your own bill, and which households should and should not switch.
Ft is the fuel cost difference from the assumptions built into the base tariff, revised every four months under the Energy Regulatory Commission. Here is the bill structure, how to read your own, and what you can actually control.
You can, but the drawings need certification by licensed professionals. Here is where to lodge, which form, what to attach, the five points where applications get stuck, and the risk of starting before the permit arrives.
An extension cracks because the house sits on piles while the extension sits on fill, so the two settle at different rates. Separate the structures and leave a flexible joint. Plus the rules that bind: 2 metres of rear open space, a solid boundary wall needing written consent, and the 5 square metre exemption.
Do the entrance ramp before the lift, because the front steps are what stops somebody leaving the house at all. And the number people get wrong most often is the gradient, which should be no steeper than 1 in 12.
Note the meter reading, switch the unit's main breaker fully off, wait an hour and read again. If it has moved with no power in the unit, something else is connected to your meter, and that is evidence nobody can dismiss.
The drip is almost never below the entry point, because water runs along the underside of the roof and the structure before something interrupts it. Find it from inside the roof space during rain, tracing the wet mark upwards.
Start at the roof rather than the windows, because in a Thai house the largest share of heat arrives downwards from above. The roof space takes full sun all day and accumulates heat, turning the ceiling into a radiant panel the size of the room that keeps working long into the night.
Being on the house registration does not make you the owner, and the householder is not the owner either, because ownership sits with the title deed. What is worth real money is one accumulated year on the registration, which exempts a sale from specific business tax, and it need not be continuous.
Look for three things: mud tubes running up a wall, timber that sounds hollow although the surface looks sound, and shed wings on a window ledge after rain. Any one is enough to call someone in, because termites eat the inside and leave the surface, so by the time it shows the wood needs replacing.
Photograph everything, then knock on the door upstairs. Most people do it the other way round and lose ground on day one. Who pays is not decided by who lives above you but by which pipe the water came from: a riser or the structure is the juristic person's, plumbing inside the unit is that unit's.
