No, Buzzer, the point of my post was that Americans can buy property without a Thai partner if they invoke the Amity Treaty of 1968. Americans are the only nationality that can do so.

No one in Thailand will tell you about it because (a) a very small percentage of expats are American and (b) the lawyers and agents who do know about it are not about to suggest something that will deal them out of getting annual fees for the dead people on your business license and deed.

Most condos in the US are apartments. Your mother must have lived in a small city or town if you think they are all places with gardens and land. Whether something is a condominium or not has to do with the form of ownership, not the form of the property. You can have condominiums with individual houses, with garden apartments, with townhouses, for office buildings, and for parking garages. I'm sure there are other things that can be owned that way, too. I owned a condo in Washington DC, and believe me, there were no gardens involved other than some landscaping around the building.