Bangkok For Less · updated 2026

TM30 — the form your landlord must file, and often doesn't

The TM30 is the landlord's filing obligation, not yours. Plenty of landlords do not do it. The person who meets the consequence at immigration is you.

Why this is the one to check before you sign

It is the only item on the list where someone else has the duty and you carry the outcome. Everything else about a lease you can read yourself.

What to ask, before money moves

  1. Have you filed a TM30 for this unit before?
  2. Will you file it within the required window after I move in?
  3. Can you send me the receipt?

A landlord who has done it before answers all three in one message. A landlord who has not will change the subject — and that is the answer.

Send me the three condos that will sign your paperwork

Tell me your dates, budget and which district you are looking at. I will come back with three places whose landlords actually do the documents — and what each one will and will not sign.

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Not immigration or legal advice. This page explains what a landlord and a lease need to do. For the application itself, use a licensed agent or the official channels. We rent condos — that is the part we know.