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Ok, rental is fine but it is the same problem as in the UK, its dead money.At least if I (repeat) I can buy a house its mine.Not just paying out month after month with nothing at the end of it.I am lucky, with the price of houses in Thailand(outside Bangkok) I can pay cash for a two or three bedroom house so to pay rent each month is just throwing it away.
Reading through the posts one solution would seem to have the GF(wife) own the land and I own the house with some clause in the ownership of the land that she cannot sell it .Then I can probably sell the house or rent it out.Anyone know if this is possible.Then if everything goes pear shaped and tells me to f++k off I am not just giving her a present of a house and land and I retain some control.As I have said previously, I have already had one messy divorce and a case of once bitten twice shy.I do not want a condo basically because I would rather have a house, simple as that.
Diz, I have spoken to many thai ladies recently and there is no "loss of face" in general ,living in rented space.They all have a "dream" of living in their own house but this just seems to be the same as any other, just their dream.Perhaps your GF is having a lttle pressure from her friends who are guilty of the green eyed monster anyway that seems to be the way my GF and her friends read your situation.My GF has had a lot of bad mouthing from her neighbours just because now she has many things they do not,holidays abroad,farang clothes, trips up country by plane (not some old bus)etc
Funny old world but women are basically the same everywhere,jealousy where material things are concerned
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