I think you need to seriously reconsider - my husband and I have beeon going to KS for the last 5 years and last year we met an English guy who had opened his own bar (with the help of another English guy and an Australian guy) in Chaweng. He put up £17,000 of his own savings for the venture. Last year we spent most evenings having a couple of drinks with him at his new bar (I think it was called the Chicken and Pullet or something like that). He was also refurbishing the upstairs for B&B accommodation. We arrived this year early August and a few nights into our holiday went into Chaweng. The bar was not there, but we spotted the English guy in another bar further up the street in a bar called KWAS or something like that. He recognised us and told us that he had been ripped off in a big way by his "partners". He was now working for somebody else and had lost all of his money; his solicitor and the Thai police had told him that there was nothing he could do. Unless you're a Thai national I'd forget it if I were you!!