@Bent ************

because when you buy you can never sell no matter how much of an emergency arises

Why do you want to buy ? Why not rent at least at the start ? Gives you more freedom as you don’t yet know where you want to stay . Rent for a year to see if you like the area

@Nate **********

I’m sure you are right . Personally I don’t care who comes in or for how long , doesn’t bother me why would it . ? Immigration see it differently of course

@Nate **********

WHO allows tourists to rent condos ? Not immigration is it , they don’t get involved . Almost all condos are rented on a 1 year term so the people you are talking about are using Airbnb to rent on their “ tourist” visas , which incidentally is regarded as illegal now in Thailand . But don’t let facts get in your way . I am not championing Thailand at all , I’m just saying look at it from immigrations point of view .So called “tourists” doing back to back visa runs are not tourists they are attempting to stay long term without getting the right visa . I’m just saying , that is how immigration , rightly , will view it

@Jordan ****

not saying you’re wrong . I’m just seeing it from the immigrations point of view

@Wayne ******

nice idea … just not true . If it was everybody could just come here on a tourist visa and never leave .

@John ********

Thailand wants tourists not people that try to circumvent the system by keep coming to Thailand when they are clearly not tourists . Immigration must wonder why these people have no life in their own country … why this obsession with keep coming to Thailand again and again ?

If you want to stay here get the right visa … tourists come for a holiday then go home at the end of. Same with many countries

Hopefully he’ll ask again in English

Just remember whatever requirements they say you want , in the end it’s up to the person who deals with your application what they ask you for . Doing it yourself is cheap but if they ask you for something random you don’t have you will likely have to go away and start it all again on another day . That’s why many , me included , employ an agent ( they aren’t cheap though it’s a case of how much you value your time ) to “smooth out” any problems . Last year they came up with something totally bizarre with me but the agent sorted what would have been an impossible request for me to solve . So the money was worth it .

Then again you might fly through in 1 hour with no problems . Like everything in Thailand it’s very random and down to your luck on the day

@Paul ******************

great thank you