 Hawaiian Real Estate (by GKARL [PA]) May 22, 2018 11:32 AM
 Hawaiian Real Estate (by Landlord ofthe Flies [TX]) May 22, 2018 12:15 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by S i d [MO]) May 22, 2018 12:22 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by JB [OR]) May 22, 2018 12:38 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Landlord ofthe Flies [TX]) May 22, 2018 1:21 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by NE [PA]) May 22, 2018 1:23 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Deanna [TX]) May 22, 2018 3:41 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Livethedream [AZ]) May 22, 2018 9:25 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by cjo'h [CT]) May 22, 2018 10:33 PM
Hawaiian Real Estate (by GKARL [PA]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 11:32 AM
Message:
Reading about how the tourism Industry is taking a major hit in Hawaii. I started wondering what might happen to real estate. I read that there's such a thing as volcano insurance and the governor suggested that everyone was covered previously as the damages were from fire. Now there's lava flow, it will be interesting to see who's covered now. Most folks don't have volcano insurance mainly because it's very expensive. Rouge events like this definitely can upend the best laid plans. --208.54.xx.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Landlord ofthe Flies [TX]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 12:15 PM
Message:
Real estate has always been a hard profession on HI. Mainly because of the difficulty in pronouncing Hawaiian street names.
The only active volcanos are on the big island of Hawaii. Oahu and all the other islands are dormant. The volcanic problems are very isolated and the winds will blow the gases and ash out to sea so the other islands aren't affected. --108.69.xxx.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by S i d [MO]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 12:22 PM
Message:
Maybe main-landers can find some cheap vacation and also help stimulate the local economy. Win-win! --173.19.x.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by JB [OR]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 12:38 PM
Message:
Interesting. Speaking of high-priced housing areas. How about a massive earthquake in San Francisco? That would really shake things up there! --50.45.xxx.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Landlord ofthe Flies [TX]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 1:21 PM
Message:
Or how about the annual forest fires in parts of California. That's worse to me because it's an annual event. --108.69.xxx.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by NE [PA]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 1:23 PM
Message:
Might make it a little difficult to find the survey pins. --50.107.xxx.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Deanna [TX]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 3:41 PM
Message:
An old friend of my husband's ended up marrying another guy in our circle-of-acquaintances-in-our-hobby. We were hanging out in the kitchen and talking about real estate, and that was when I found out the guy we've also known for ages was a native Hawaiian.
That was also when I found out that, for a lot of native Hawaiians, they don't have private ownership, but rather, the land belongs to the family/clan. And so the people who are related by blood are able to use it during their lifetimes, although the actual ownership belongs to the family/clan, so no one can actually sell it.
I think it came up in conversation when Zuckerberg was trying to consolidate his claim to, like, a 700-acre tract, except there were ancestral lands that couldn't be sold that belonged to about a dozen different families within those bounds. And Zuckerberg was all, "Isn't this awesome, that people are getting money for land they had no idea they had a claim to?!" and everyone else in the world is like, "Ummm..."
And so the mean part of me thinks it kind of poetic if it was Zuckerberg's 700 acres on Kauai that also happened to be affected by all this upheaval. :P (Hint: they're 300 miles apart, and two other major islands are between them.) --96.46.xxx.xx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by Livethedream [AZ]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 9:25 PM
Message:
Back in the day my mom and I were in Hawaii and I seriously considered building spec homes in the lava fields after they started offering insurance. People were snapping vacation homes up because you could get a home in Hawaii for a couple hundred thousand or less.
In retrospec I should have instead of going to the desert.
I'm in the middle of the escrow from hell or we'd fly over and watch the show. Maybe pick up some really cheap property. ;)
More on the escrow later when my blood pressure is under 300. Grrr. --47.216.xx.xxx |
Hawaiian Real Estate (by cjo'h [CT]) Posted on: May 22, 2018 10:33 PM
Message:
Land in Hawaii in my opinion would be too hot to handle at this time.......charlie.......................... --174.199.x.xx |
Reply:
|
|