Dear readers,

Does anyone know how long an unpaid maintenance fee for a condo can be claimed back, and whether this is described somewhere? I have searched in the juristric condo admin handbook (Thailand) but I did not find this information here.

Yours faithfully,

Willem

2 responses to “Reader question: How long can an unpaid maintenance fee for a condo be reclaimed?”

  1. eugene says up

    Always. You will first receive a registered letter. The condo will then be blocked at the Land Office. You can then no longer sell it as long as the fee and interest have not been paid. Finally, you will be brought to court.

  2. willem says up

    Thank you Eugene for your comment.
    This is indeed the usual procedure and is carried out by the legal manager of the condominium complex.
    In my complex there are a number of condos that have not paid a maintenance fee for more than 20 years and are not inhabited.
    4 months ago, 2 of these condos changed ownership, the maintenance fee and the interest was more than 700.000 bath per condo.
    The legal manager said that around 100.000 baht was paid per condo (he could not prove this through a transaction) and claimed that only the maintenance fee can be claimed back and not the interest.
    He could not show the deed, which states that only the maintenance fee can be reclaimed.
    The maintenance fee with us is very low at 10 bath/m2, so in 20 years this will be approximately 100.000 bath.
    The interest is 1% on the total outstanding amount per month, which is why the amount has risen so high.
    According to me and a number of fellow residents, what this gentleman is doing is not correct and so I asked this question.


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