What are the best visa options for someone owning two houses in Koh Samui?

@Cissi ********

I mean , you felt free to satire me , doubting my credibility about sources , throwing in a word like "teach" . Im friendly all the time , I just give my opinion without attacking anyone personally. So I don't understand why you feel the need to give me YOUR off topic opinion , instead of just moving on if you are not interested. So me talking about your food is pretty much the same off-topic than you wanna "teach" me what I can talk 😉

@Stefan ***********

If you feel like telling me what to eat, feel free to do so in a PM. This post has far too many off-topic comments already, but you don't seem to get my point. "Open discussion"? This is a group about DTV. The OP asked for a visa-related advice. Yet you and a couple of others hijacked his post, making 14 property-related comments. And there were no stop in you... Had the OP responded, wanting to discuss his "house ownership", I would have just scrolled past. He didn't, hence I suggested you should continue the off-topic discussion elsewhere. Sure you are allowed your 2 cents (so am I btw), but you seemed more like wanting 100 dollars!

@Cissi ********

it's not about teaching or telling anyone what to do... But I'm surely allowed to give my 2 cents.

@Cissi ********

it's an open discussion and you are in no obligation to tell me what I want to talk. I also don't tell you how to eat or?

@Stefan ***********

then pls, make your own post on a property forum where you can tell people about your looong time in Thailand and "teach" everyone that are interested in learning from all the knowledge you got from your reliable sources. Meanwhile others can get back to the visa subject that the OP actually asked about!

Mr 5 Bank Accounts As I said , let us wait and see next year. It's Thailand , alot things over the years get announced and never happen. I'm happy for the people if they will be left alone and can live their life's. I just tell , what I hear from my Thai friends. In the end , I'm also just a farang in Thailand and surely don't know it all.

@Stefan ***********

a condo is also a property. In many countries, we just say "a house" when referring to vertical properties in buildings ie apartments/condos

@Stéfan *******

these are trading companies that actually do something and own the property to carry out their legitimate business. The company structures set up to purchase houses are not that, there is no legitimate business.

@Ossie ********

and also your modular home. As soon you put it on someone's land it technically is theirs. And if they really want to f you over they can make sure that you can't take it off their property. But again , do and believe whatever you want . 😊

@Ossie ********

wrong , it belongs to the owner of the land . You just are using it for the time of lease. Please inform yourself. Nothing will be in your name. And there have been plenty of cases , where leases will be canceled after someone built.

@Stéfan *******

Tackling grey areas of companies purchasing houses for private housing . Let's see what's coming , I heard some different stuff.

I don't wish anyone that it happen and hope everyone can happily keep and live in their houses.

@Stefan ***********

but if you build on the leased land that build belongs to the lessor

@Stefan ***********

the grey area you’re describing if for the ones who create these entities solely to acquire properties. Tons of foreign companies own land in Thailand.

@Stéfan *******

and yes you can lease land , you can build a house you technically still don't officially and legally own it. But hey , whatever ... You guys interprete it however you like. I've been in Asia long enough and act after my knowledge . 😊🫰

@Stéfan *******

I just explained you. This grey area of companies buying houses will be soon tackled.

You legally occupy the land for the term of lease... But you don't own it , you are not entitled to it.

@Ossie ********

okay , fundamentally wrong understanding of leasing and owning. You lease, that's why it's called leasing and not owning. There is a reason it is 2 different words.

@Stefan ***********

a condo is a property. Also, the op said “houses”. You can lease land and build a house on it. Lastly, you can own a company which itself acquires property, as long as it’s a legitimate business

@Stefan ***********

if you lease land you own the property you build on it then when the lease expires the land owners are rubbing there hands unless you build a module home and dismantle it before the lease expires