[soueuls]

We bought during Covid, the building was half-way done, the prices were attractive, and the story telling was that they mostly worked with workers from Burma and Laos, it was a bit slow to get them a working visa during Covid.

Hence, why the construction took a halt during 1 year. They were selling at a discount to break even, the government was indeed talking about opening borders (we were already inside Thailand at that time, not buying from abroad).

We visited the construction site and saw ~10 workers, everything seemed real, like a thing slowly getting back to normal.

I have all the reasons to believe now, that these "workers" were just paid to be here. The company was advertising, getting batches of potential investors, and making a "Potemkin" construction site.

They never had any intention of ever finishing the project.

[pavel_lishin]

I don't think I have any advice for you. :/

But I do think you should think about what you want - do you want to get your mom's money back? Or do you want to punish these people? Those two goals may be mutually exclusive.

[soueuls]

Getting the money back would obviously be number 1, I am not crazy enough to enjoy « revenge » above my my mother’s wellbeing.

But I already hired a lawyer, I don’t think there is any way we will win this legally.

The whole thing is rigged when the guy in front of you has been somewhat a fiend of the king when he was young.