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Hi everyone, I'd appreciate some pointers from others who have sold a condo in Thailand - did you do it alone or hire a law firm?
The reason I'm asking is that I thought it best to hire a local law firm when I purchased my condo from the developer - for the fee they really didn't do that much and their grasp of English was minimal; I paid a booking fee and deposit to the developer, the law firm sent someone to look at the unit, then they accompanied me to the land office where I handed over three cheques, paid some tax and electricity insurance and received the blue book and title deeds.
I've found a buyer through a listing on prakard and I understand a little about the taxes; transfer fee 2%, Specific business tax 3.3%, stamp duty 0.5% and withholding tax - is this something I can do myself or do I need a law firm? Particularly the difference between the registered and appraised value - does the land office calculate that? The actual sale; are there any ways to be scammed?
If anyone with experience could outline the steps they took, I'd appreciate it. I've never sold a condo before and don't know the procedure.
Thanks

Hi everyone,
I'm not exactly a DIY-er, but I've got a problem where the water from the bathroom in the condo damages the cheap laminated flooring, could anyone suggest a solution, please?
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The first picture shows the water damage and the bar of wood is completely black and rotten so I removed it. The flooring is also black. Obviously I need to buy a new door, plastic I guess. You can't see from the photo but walls to either side are also water damaged and the skirting boards are falling off!
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The second picture was taken after I removed the rotten wood, you can see the white tiling is only a few inches high and I wanted to know how to create a barrier to stop water? Could anyone give tips or suggest things I could do, because I've got no idea; it's Thailand, the bathroom floor is almost always wet.
Could I remove the small tiles and put taller ones in, or would water still seep around the edges? As a stopgap measure I've just pumped silicone sealant where the wooden bar used to be, but of course this doesn't adhere to the tiles or concrete (whatever it is) underneath.
Thanks for reading and all comments/suggestions.
Best regards

Hi, I would like to soundproof one of my bedrooms in my condo in Bangkok and haven't been able to find any company - I've tried the Yellow Pages and Google and even the Ads on this forum but I haven't come up with anything. Could anyone post a link to a website or a number or a company which could give me a quote?
I joined a forum called supersoundproofing and there are literally thousands of people all over the world undertaking their own soundproofing projects, I've learnt a lot by reading the forum - everyone refers a lots to mass-loaded vinyl, green glue (which absorbs sound), 'floating' walls and the like - could anyone guide me where you buy this in Thailand, please? There is a US company called Acoustiblok but they don't sell in Thailand.
Thanks for any replies.

You've got to chuckle at how dumb some people are....I'm self-professed tech-phobic and only recently discovered the art of downloading movies - about a decade after the rest of the world...so with only an 160GB hard drive on my laptop I congratulated myself last month on finding an Acer 1TB External HDD at Carrefour/Big C - a brand-new 2010-made (instead of '11) model for 1,799baht. I didn't know anything about 3.5" ones needing a power adaptor, bit of a surprise for know-nothing-me, and I started filling it up.
After a while I started going for the Bluray rips 8GB+ and couldn't transfer them off to the Acer "the file is too large for the destination file system" - it said. Hmmm. Even I'm fairly sure that 1TB is larger than 8GB. Better late than never, I found online the reason is that the Acer is FAT32 formatted instead of NTFS and won't allow anything over 4GB. Great, I didn't previously know any of this, but I can reformat, except while I do this, I've nowhere to store the bulk of the 300GB+ already on my HDD...... I'll put this down as a lesson learnt.....

I really need some help from anyone who has experience of connecting a TV to the internet.
I recently bought a Samsung 40" LED TV - a 6-series model number 6400 - I would like to hear from anyone with the same or similar model who could explain the setup issue I'm having.
I followed the instructions and set up a wired connection to my ADSL modem as the instructions state the TV doesn't require an IP router. I have successfully connected the TV to the internet but the problem is the reliability; I can't just set it up and be done with it, every time I turn on the TV I need to establish the network again and often get the error message saying 'Network Interference occurred. Please try again later'.
I have True Internet 7Mbps with a WiFi router, very happy with the service, no problems getting online with my laptop. I called True and agreed with their stance that it's up to me to figure out how. I returned to the Samsung Dealership and they suggested the Samsung helpline which I called to no avail.
Do I need to buy an IP router - could anyone make any further suggestions or explain how they did it?

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