Evicting a tenant in Thailand is slower and more formal than most foreign landlords expect, and the shortcuts that feel obvious abroad are criminal offences here. Changing the locks, cutting the power or moving a tenant’s belongings onto the street will not get your unit back. It will get you a police report against you, and it will hand a defaulting tenant a counterclaim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The law that governs the relationship is the hire-of-property chapter of the Civil and Commercial Code<\/a>, Sections 537<\/a> to 571<\/a>, supplemented for larger landlords by consumer-protection rules. What follows is the lawful route, in the order a Thai court expects to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTable of Contents<\/h2>