The Chinese landlord was scolded by the Thais!

The biggest hope of foreign landlords is to rent out their homes.

However, rentals are divided into long-term and short-term, and the quality of tenants cannot be controlled.

After the accumulation of various problems, the Thai complaint finally broke out.

Thai condominiums, does it also need an “owners’ committee” that works hard together with the property?

Apartment turned hotel?

Chinese buy apartments for rent in Thailand! Foreign tenants frequently cause accidents and provoke public anger!

According to Thai media news, recently, a foreigner smashed the door and sprayed it with a fire extinguisher in an apartment in Bangkok, Thailand, accompanied by shouting and screaming, which had a serious impact on other residents and was also hotly discussed on the online platform.

On February 22, a well-known online homepage published information on the complaints of the residents of the above-mentioned apartments, saying that many foreigners will come to the apartments for short-term or long-term stays, and often cause distress to other residents, and complaints to the apartment management are not effective.

It is worth noting that there have been previous incidents of foreigners smoking/marijuana in the apartment, when the security guards went to stop it and were beaten.

There has been another recent door-smashing incident, but it seems that there is no solution to the problem, and although the people involved have been asked to leave the apartment, they are afraid that they will cause trouble elsewhere and do not know how to contact immigration or the embassy.

Immediately afterwards, the online homepage added information that according to the information provided by the residents of the apartment, it has been more than five years since the foreigner-like incident occurred in the apartment, and the foreigner who provided the rental of the house even has a taxi waiting in front of the apartment to pick up tourists, just like a hotel.

Previously, the tenant collected evidence and went to the police, but still allowed the lease, and the current way to avoid it is that the foreigner signs a contract on a monthly basis and registers it with the apartment management office.

Not only that, but the online homepage later published information provided by another apartment resident, saying that this kind of problem has existed for many years, and hundreds of rooms in the apartment belong to Chinese, and the apartment has become a hotel due to daily rent.

Although facial scanning is available, it is not uncommon for Chinese and foreign homeowners to hire staff to provide 24-hour scanning services, or to store their key cards or keys at nearby restaurants.

There had been a meeting on the matter, but after a while things started to go back on to business as usual, and foreigners tried to sign monthly contracts, but within a month they would leave, which was a real disregard for the safety of other residents.

In addition, according to the online homepage, Chinese investors have bought 70-80% of the rooms in the above-mentioned apartments and rented them out through online travel platforms, and the apartments are still hotels.

Apartment into “hotel”:

Who is to blame for the chaos? How to fix it?

“Chinese landlords can’t afford to make money or money, and they can’t control the words and deeds of foreign tenants.”

Although there are voices in the comment section that say so, this matter can never be summed up in just a few sentences, especially when the apartment is involved in the hotel rental industry without a license.

The responsibility for this incident is actually not difficult to find.
Condominium managers are undoubtedly the most directly responsible, and they are supposed to protect the rights and interests of residents, set strict regulatory standards to ensure that apartments operate according to established rules, but they turn a blind eye to the large-scale short-term rentals of foreign landlords.

The complaints are invalid, the law and order are in vain, and the security guards do not even have the courage to face the drug tenants, let alone solve the frequent incidents of smashing and harassment.

At the same time, some investment landlords are also to blame. After buying an apartment, they are more concerned about how to make the property in their hands realize quickly, rather than the quality of the tenant and the legitimacy of the lease.

On various short-term travel rental platforms on the Internet, they can easily publish listings, and even arrange intermediaries to manage the check-in process, and “services” such as room card escrow and key storage are readily available, making illegal short-term rentals appear on the surface, making the apartment truly a hotel operating without a license.

Of course, it’s not just the condominium management and landlords who are really responsible, but also the Thai government’s regulatory authorities.

The problem of short-term rentals in Thailand has existed for many years, and residents have collected evidence to report to the police many times, but things often fall silent after a gust of wind, and illegal rentals are still the same.

Thailand’s immigration authorities and relevant law enforcement agencies should have taken stronger measures against illegal acts, rather than turning a condominium into a runaway “free market” in just a few years.

If unregulated conditions continue to be laissez-faire, the contradictions will undoubtedly accumulate, and both foreign investors and local residents will lose confidence.

To solve this problem, we need to rectify it at the source.

The apartment management must be tough, strictly enforce the rental regulations, and put an end to short-term rentals bypassing the rules and pretending to be a loophole in the monthly rental contract.
If necessary, the property reserves the right to vet any tenant and give advance notice of occupancy.
Thailand’s management should also improve its supervision to crack down on unlicensed operations, or follow the practice of some countries to implement a special permit system for short-term rental apartments to ensure that the long-term living environment of the community is not damaged.

For foreign landlords, investing in overseas property does not mean that they can ignore local regulations, and ignoring the damage to the entire apartment ecology while focusing on short-term gains may eventually lead to stricter restrictions or even asset depreciation

In the long run, illegal short-term earning is harmful to others and not to oneself.