"Rent a Place in Thailand by Yourself," a very interesting experience!

I first met Patrick, a French retiree, when I first opened a little bakery store in my hometown, rayong, about a year ago. At that time, he found my coffee shop as a common spot for him to hang out and ahve a time for himself drinking a good cup of vietnamese coffee, and reading his favorite novel. As a good owner, I walked in and talk to him. That was how we first met each other. It was not a romantic story or anything since I do have a wife, you see. But, as we became friend, I learned a lot more about him, and he learned more about me as well. He revealed to me how he don't like to stay at what he was staying at that time. It was, in my opinion, a nice place to stay, but I think he was fed up with all these populated foreigner areas, and needed to just run away from it as fast as possible. So, he decided to find the new house with a help from me, of course. Now, finding a house to rent in Thailand is not as easy as walk in the park. Sometime, there is no rental sign hanging in the front what so ever. You just have to go ask for it yourself. That doesn't sound, at all, practical for a foreigner like Patrick.

Having said that it was near impossible for Patrick to find the rental house, he manage to kept his cool, and walk around town looking for a little sign written in Thai "Hai Chow," which mean for rent in English. Sometime, he found the owner, and neeeded to talk to the guy, he will ring me to help him translate the conversation back and forth between both parties. That is, in turn, how idea of TalkinThai emerged, and it is fair to say that is how it happened. With as simple as one phone call away, I can help a retiree, like Patrick, get a rental house without being there with him physically. In fact, Patrick found no rental house for at least a month until he went to Chantaburi with me. There, he found what appeared to be another adventure for him. So, he decided to move there, but since he hadn't found a rental house yet, he decided to go there every weekend, and whenever he had time to walk around, and searched for the rental house. Bizzare enough, he called me at the point he felt no hope of finding one, and he already began to think about moving into an apartment and started searching again later on, which sounded like a good idea at that time. But, I personaly didn't like to hang thing in the middle like this. So, I told him to go to any local store around the place where ever he felt like wanting to be in, and that gave me a call. The next day, he did exactly what I told him to. He went to a laundry matt, and called me. I asked him to pass the phone to the owner. I asked the owner if she know anybody around there who rented out a house. Sure enough, she managed to call a couple of people, and found a house for rent a block away from the laundry matt. And that how Patrick doing things there by himself with a little helps from me through my cell phone since then. And that is how TalkinThai helps our customers today just as if they are one of our friends. It is a rewarding experience for me to be able to help someone like Patrick, as well as the other customers of TalkinThai achieve their goals in Thailand by themselves without spending load of money. At the end, the choice is with us, don't let anybody decide for you. In the end, you deserve to stay in Thailand wherever you want to without having to go through money sucking agencies!