@Braulio ********

oh really? Jeez I never thought of that! Thanks!

Asshat.

@Brandon ***********

I suspect you are operating at a vastly different socio economic level than I am. :)

@Phil *****

the agent in question (although frankly most of them are) is pretty gross. I think this is a generic western lease he got off the internet. The whole thing has been a hot mess, but after having two places get rented out from under us I wanted to get it locked in

@Phil *****

of course late fees. But, for Thailand this seems odd. They are asking 1,000 baht per day.

@Nicolas ************

probably, but it's nothing that a mob with torches and pitchforks won't cure.

Parasites

@Brian *************

just remember 1) don't expect everything to make sense here and 2) a non trivial fraction of the people in these groups are sociopathic liars. Good luck!

My wife and I have had mixed luck with this SORT of thing. I suggest you try in Bangkok first and maybe save the trip. Failing that, use it as an excuse to go on holiday to Roi Et. We had, for part of our marriage process, province 1 send us to province 2, province 2 send us to province 3, province 3 insist they couldn't do it, then province 1 did it.

@Steven **************

we didn't know and used to separate. So maybe I'll give it a try... What I don't want is to do something wrong and just count on them being too polite to tell me. Hmmm...

@Brandon ***********

thank you for the second part- I was going to make a post to check on that for clarity.