I'd be interested in seeing what you can get for 10,000 a month in Hua Hinlayman wrote:OK, no problem. Still feeling out the prices, but I think what I'm asking is fair. It's a nice airy house, well built, in a good position. Hope you have better luck this time.
Try looking around Soi 80. A LOT closer to town (i.e. easy walking distance), and right now there are quite a lot of For Rent signs up all along both sub-sois.Korkenzieher wrote:I am going to be looking for somewhere from the beginning of May, probably for a calendar year, so this is all useful stuff. Thanks to all contribs.
One thing about the 'couple of kilometres from town' places, and that is how do you get about? Do you need a car, motorbike or do you use the tuk-tuks and taxis, which seem to be rip-off merchants around HH.
The following extract from Thai law is not exactly crystal clear what exact defects are which parties responsibility. But your broken pumps and structural problems would definately be landlords responsibility (unless he snuck it in your contract).buksida wrote:I didn't get my deposit back on the old place as the owner said "I had to spend money on house maintenance". Which would be fine if she'd have bothered maintaining the house for the two years that I lived there with broken water pumps, termites, and structural damage. Now I'm sure this is the owners duty and not the tennants.
People should check the contracts, I read one my mate had for his bar and it said hirer was responsible for all defects, including structural (would never sign up to that). He got billed by landlord when roof leaked as it was a million years old !!!Hire of property
Chapter II
Duties and liabilities of the letter
Section 546: The letter is bound to deliver the property hired in a good state of repair.
Section 550: The letter is liable for any defects which arise during the continuance of the contract and he must make all the repairs which may become necessary, except those which are by law or custom to be done by the hirer (see section 553 below).
Chapter III
Duties and liabilities of the hirer
Section 553: The hirer is bound to take as much care of the property hired as a person of ordinary prudence would take of his own property, and to do ordinary maintenance and petty repairs.
Section 561: If no written description of the condition of the property hired has been made and signed by both parties, the hirer is presumed to have received the property in good state of repair and he must return the property in such condition at the termination or extinction of the contract, unless he can prove that it was out of repair at the time of delivery.
Section 562: The hirer is liable for any loss or damage caused to the property hired by his own fault or by the fault of persons living with him or being his sub-hirer, but he is not liable for loss or damage resulting from prope use
