Open the company and get the visa. Build the phone app and make the company rent somewhere for you to live so as to reduce your taxes.. Property in Thailand isn't an investment at all..
I've done both and the 18 days waiting for the passport to be returned and the cost of tracked courier of my passport for a 60 day tourist visa was 2 Australia dollars more expensive than getting 30 days on arrival and 30 days extension and I didn't have to show all the bureaucratic bullshit they ask for to back up your tourist visa.. Its alot easier to get an extension.. I've never had to wait or spend longer than 4 hours door to door doing an extension if you get there at 7am and wait till 830 open. Can be home by 11am. Depends where you do it also..
Nope.. You're American.. Just tell them all you're an American. It gets you 15% discount on everything across Asia cause America saved Vietnam all those years back.. The Thais get you mixed up with Europeans though so make sure you keep telling people you're American...
The trick is to get the other 9 falangs to pay for you to spend time with her.. If she loved you she'd do that for you... That's the only way you can find out If you're the one....