Yesterday
we visited a Thai Lawyer.
Plans are
all wonderful but as a foreigner it is good to first of all inform yourself
good before you start with building and buying here in Thailand.
I think
this Thailand really lives the slogan ‘Own people first’ and although many
people have problems with that, I think the governments in Thailand made the
right decisions with that. For a foreigner for instance it is not possible to
own land or to have more than 49% of the shares of a business. You can buy
everything but…
As I
learned out of my religion and also from Buddhism nobody owns anything. You
only can use things for a short (life) time. That’s nice but still…
We really
had a nice chat and good information in how to deal together with a situation
we both want to build a house and buy land.
I am
allowed to build our own house but my girlfriend need to arrange a legal paper
I am allowed to build a house on her land. So the land need to be on her name.
She needs to agree me to live at and to use that land in a lease agreement for
thirty years (with a possible extension). It is a kind of secure base for me to
use that property and land together. And even if she dies, although within one
year there need to be done some things, I can stay at that place. The only
thing is she cannot use her land-paper for that lease period to get any loan on
it (if she should want).
I need to
change my last will as well to arrange how to arrange things if I pass away.
So, to
begin three legal documents need to be made.
It was
nice to have this chat with the lawyer together. He spoke in good English and
many things (more than I mention in this blog) were clear and can be arranged.
Where I
live now, I have the same construction. A thirty-year lease with a possible
extension of thirty years and my own house. Yes, used to totally different
rules and regulations in my home country it took some time to understand and to
accept. But indeed, I will not live for ever 😉. So what can I
actually really own? It is all temporary.
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