T H A N K S in advance for any useful answers you might provide as a result of your experience or interactions with others. Bail out now if you tire of long posts.

Post reason: data gathering for decision support...

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Selling u.s.house this year

.vs.

Rent out for a few years(3-5) while price increases AND HELOC gets paid off.

(I have a trusted young friend who can manage/mauntain for the next 3-5 years)

Taking the cash now verses possibly doubling it in 3-5 years will affect my nest egg size.

E$timate$: (on the low side, allowing for less than "stellar performance")

5-6 milThaiBaht (house sell price - HELOC) 300 minus 100 k.usd

vs.

10-12 milThaiBaht

(3-5 more years of appreciation and NO HELOC to pay off) 400 minus 0 k.usd

Also, some upgrades to occur while price goes up in a good seller's market.

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about self-insure/nest egg...

ARE SINGLE RETIREES COMING HERE WITH:

NO NESTEGG?

Less than 200kUSD?

200k-500kUSD?

WHAT $________usd?

OVER 500kUSD*? (*Well done sir/madam)

I'm not asking you to state exactly what you have, but you "may have heard" what your friends or others are coming here with.

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Much & Many Thanks to anyone who hangs in there and reads this long post, but it is something all?most? of us will/are/have consider/ing/ed.

0. Currently living in Thailand part time on two 3 month visits per year. I'll be on a non0 by Oct (yes agent, a whole other topic)

1. Monthly pensions>100kThaiBaht, so I'm ok on the monthly for 2people in Thailand🇹🇭.

2. No nest egg other than 1 u.s.house and ~$70k life ins.policy.

2.a. life ins.policy is intended for my girlfriend.

3. Health insurance will be some what difficult to get at a reasonable cost for 70 yr old and won"t cover pre-existing conditions and a few other old.dude things.

Reading up on healthcare in Thailand I find that self-insuring is a thing.

For the record: self-insure = big$ca$h in a bank [or equivalent credit / easily liquidated].

Besides the knee, I'm in good 70.yr.old health with demonstrated family longevity into the upper 80s to mid 90s.

Again... thank you for your time

Hi group, I have non o - retirement visa/ 800000thb in my bank account on my name ONLY (rules)

What document/s should I prepare for my wife in case:

* I could be unconcious (for example wife needs money for hospital)

* or I could be dead

* so my wife will have direct access to this money without any problems? SHE KNOWS ATM PIN

Whats steps did anyone take to move from the united states to Thailand?

Hi everyone

Me and the Mrs intend to retire somewhere around Hau Hin. This is the plan when I retire at 62 in April 2027.

We will have £400,000 approx from our UK house sale and I will have a pension of £12,000 per annum until we receive our state pension in 2032.

We intend to use this money combined to live and rent.

We are coming for a three week visit next March, is there anything we could be doing in March to get the ball rolling.

We intend to use agents to sort everything out for us so any recommendations will be welcomed.

We realise our plans are in the future and things change but we feel any knowledge is better than non.

Thank you in advance for any help given.

Kind of strategizing about how to do this.

From US - living now in Thailand- I put in 800,000 in Bangkok bank and will be getting non-O retirement visa end of next month - all squared away.

I also started putting 65,000 THB in every month - probably prematurely already done for 2 months, but was planning on doing that as well for a year - so that I can take back out the 800,000 THB the next cycle (and continue to put in 65,000).

That ties up a lot of money that could be drawing interest - and exposure to the vagaries of the Thai Bhat - and if I keep going ahead with this I wonder whats the best way to get it back out?

I assume they just want it consistently going in- don't care too much how it goes out. I can use the debit card all i can, of course expenses here that are in THB... But wondering about going direct through the bank/debit card for things that are in dollars.... will I eat a lot of exchange fee this way? Vs, transferring some of it back to a US bank through Wise the other way around. And I guess making cash withdrawels and exchanging for dollars at money places before I'd go back to the US perhaps - which would be infrequent.

Thoughts?

hi group, im looking for Thai based licensed financial planner with comprehensive expertise in Australian Public Sector Superannuation Defined Benefit scheme/ATO non resident regulations, International equities and ASX knowledge. TIA.