Is Thailand a Good Place to Have a Holiday Home?
Is Thailand a good place to have a holiday home?
Yes, apart from the fact that foreigners aren’t allowed to own land, which means that the only real viable option is to purchase on a long term lease. The longest lease allowable in Thailand is 30 years. Of course, it is possible to write an option into the lease giving the lessee the option to renew for a further 60 years. For most, 60 years is long enough. However, there is the risk that the lessee cannot renew the lease after 30 years, because they have snuffed it, or the lessor has snuffed it, or some other reason like the government decides not restrict the lease term to foreigners to, say, 10 years.
Thailand has a huge potential for growth in the retirement and holiday home industry. Massive. But of course, with xenophobia or just plain arrogance running so deep in the veins of the rich and powerful in Thailand, they don’t want to accept the fact that Thailand might be a better place with foreign influence.
Let’s not get carried away, most Thais would welcome a new law allowing foreigners to purchase land. It wouldn’t have to be the whole of Thailand after all, there could be zoning laws brought in the help boost development in certain areas and allow foreigners to purchase land in those specific areas only. Most Thais would see that there would be a new flow of money brought into their local economy, and that they would prosper from it. What is the government afraid of anyway by not allowing foreigners to purchase land. They can still control the use of the land, by restricting use to residential purposes only. Or simply allow foreigners with a retirement visa in Thailand or over a specific age to buy their dream house. Are they really afraid that a foreigner will own a house in Thailand??
What’s more, this increased development and cash flow into the local economy will result in new shops, restaurants and therefore jobs for the local Thais. The value of the land will increase in these ‘zoned areas’ which will also increase the value of the Thai owned land (all though let’s face it, if the government brought in a zoning law like this then the leading politicians would have bought up all the land themselves just prior!!).
One of my staff in Thailand comes from Rayong, and her aunt has a very old unused run down house in Rayong on a 1 rai piece of land. The house is about 500m from the beach, very near to Poi Pet the port going to Kho Samed Island. Overlooking green hills and fields, she only wants 2,000,000 Baht for the house and land. This is very affordable to a lot of people (some other houses for sale can be found at www.property-bangkok.com).
And why don’t banks lend to foreigners to buy property. Surely they can seize the property if the mortgage is not being paid. They have collateral already. Why, please can someone tell me why, can a Thai national with no money, no job, and no salary, get a mortgage in their name if they have a foreigner acting as guarantor, but the foreigner him/herself cannot get a mortgage??
Neil Simmons
http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/is-thailand-a-good-place-to-have-a-holiday-home-124931.html
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Is is good description of Thailand? Did I cover the main points? What should I add or take out?
This is not my homework by the way. I am an adult..
The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country in Southeast Asia. It is also the country’s center of political, commercial, industrial and cultural activities. Thailand is the world’s 51st-largest country with a surface area of approximately 513,000 km2, and the 20th most-populous country, with approximately 63 million people. About 75% of the population is ethnically Thais, 14% is of Chinese origin, and 3% is ethnically Malay,[3] the rest belong to minority groups including Mons, Khmers, and various hill tribes. The country’s official language is Thai, and the currency is in baht. Thailand is one of the most devoutly Buddhist countries in the world. The national religion is Theravada Buddhism which is practiced by more than 95% of all Thais. Thailand is divided into 75 provinces
The region known as Thailand has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period, about 10,000 years ago.In Thailand they have certain cultures which it is very taboo for someone to do something that in other places is very natural. Such as touching someone’s head or pointing with the feet. It is important when visiting Thailand you respect their way of life.
Physical demonstrations of affection in public are common between friends, but less so between lovers. An important holiday is the Thai New Year it’s celebrated from April 13 to 15 each year. The most popular team sport in Thailand is football (soccer). Traditionally funerals last for a week. The Culture of Thailand is heavily influenced by Buddhism. Thai cuisine is famous for the blending of four fundamental tastes: sweet, sour, spicy, and salty. It is accomplished by using a host of herbs, spices and fruit. Most of Thailand has a tropical wet and dry or savannah climate while the South and the eastern tip of the East have a tropical monsoon climate.
The history of Thailand begins with the migration of the Thais from their ancestral home in southern China into mainland Southeast Asia around the 10th century AD. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. In Asia, only China, Japan and Thailand have never been colonized by European Power. So you still see primitive art and real Thai architecture in every city in Thailand, not the mixture of Thai and Western.
Tourism is a major economic factor in the Kingdom of Thailand, contributing an estimated 6.7% to Thailand’s GDP. In 2006, Thailand was the 18th most visited country in the World Tourism rankings. Thailand offers a great variety of attractions. These include diving sites, sandy beaches, hundreds of tropical islands, varied night-life, archaeological sites, museums, hill tribes, exceptional flora and bird life, palaces and World Heritage sites.
That is a nice generic overview of the country of thailand.
If that is what you are going for, it works.
If your writing it for an article that you want to get paid for, be advised that there are about 5 good articles intermixed in there, and you could be getting paid more by taking each point and reving it up to article length.
It’s nice, it’s generic, it’s dry. Inject some of the senses. See, hear, touch, taste.
For an example, my friend came back from there a bit ago.
One of the things that amazed her is that you can taste the air there.
It’s spicy and sweet, like she generally had a mouth full of whatever market block she was walking through and it made her constantly hungry.
The smells did the same, except instead of always being food, there was also incense from the constant offerings. It made her feel profoundly connected to life, and grateful to god.
It’s well thought out, and obviously you put a lot of research into it.
If your going for travel writing, it needs to breath more, and make me feel it.
References :
Freelance writer (travel included).
What people want to know is how you got there (they need to follow in your footsteps), what you specifically liked, how much, and somewhere they can eat.
Take me there. :}
I did a google search on 6 of your sentences. And I got six word-for-word matches on entire sentences. Five of them were lifted from Wikipedia and the sixth came from a travellog (asialagoon.com/home). You copied and pasted this from the internet.
I would say that it all should be scrapped because you did not write it. If you want to be a writer, do your own research and develop an expressive writing style that is all your own.
References :
http://www.google.com; place a whole sentence between double quotes and run the search.
Make sure you footnote your sources where all these facts came from. If you do not it is plagarism
References :
Live in Thailand
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