Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
A sale with right of redemption is a real sale: ownership transfers on registration, and missing the deadline hands over the land with no lawsuit. Here is how it differs from a mortgage, the protections in the 2019 Act, how to deposit the redemption sum, and the recurring tricks.
A well deeper than fifteen metres is groundwater in law and needs two licences, one to drill and one to use, even for a private house. Here is the real procedure, the three layers of cost, the duties that continue afterwards, and how to find out whether the water is fit to drink.
A section 83 caveat is a temporary hold rather than a seizure, lasts thirty days from acceptance, cannot be extended, and cannot be repeated on the same matter. Here is who may apply, what those thirty days are for, and what an owner under caveat should do.
Grease does not block the pipe where you poured it but where the water has cooled. A trap works by slowing water so grease can rise, which needs both retention time and temperature. This covers the three kinds sold, sizing and siting, correct maintenance, and what turns a trap into an ornament.
The area on a deed is the survey of the day it was issued rather than a measurement of today, so a discrepancy is normal. This separates the causes where nobody is at fault from the ones where somebody is, with section 69 bis, the 30 day notice, the 90 day deadline, and what a purchase contract must say.
A cesspool only settles solids, and the soil around the soakaway does the real treatment, which is why soakaways fail and pumping is temporary. This covers the three kinds of prefabricated tank, sizing from your water bill, the vent that stops the smell, and what kills the bacteria.
A gift to a legitimate child costs 0.5 percent in transfer fee with gift tax exempt to 20 million baht a year, but the child usually cannot borrow against it, the land tax stays with the parents under section 1426, and if the child dies first the ownership follows their heirs. Here are all six.
The 5, 8.5 and 13.5 on blue pipe are its pressure in bar, but what actually breaks a house's plumbing is pipe size, support and fittings. This goes deep on all three materials, reading the TIS 17 markings, where leaks really happen, the old pipe still found in Thai houses, and pressure testing before the walls close.
A habitation right lets somebody live in a building rent-free and cannot pass even by inheritance under section 1404. A right of superficies means owning the building on another's land and does pass on under section 1411. Here is the comparison, and what happens to the building when the right ends.
Separate a weak floor from a weak fitting first, because they are different problems. One fitting means an aerator or a filter screen. A whole floor means pressure and pipework. Here is why ten metres of height costs a bar, why old steel pipe closes from the inside, and the order to work through.
A usufruct separates the name on the deed from the right to live there and collect rent under section 1417, but section 1426 puts the taxes and mortgage interest on the holder, and the right always ends on their death. Here are the rights, the duties, and what to settle before registering.
Above ground is cheaper, easier to clean, and shows a leak at once. Underground saves space but carries the risks of flotation and surface water getting in. Here is both sides, how each should be installed, and how to size a tank from your own water bill.
