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Decided to opt out of the discussion. Some people tend to have their own minds made up and no amount of objective information will change that.
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Edited by - jdirgo on 08/21/2006 12:51:08
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John S. Rabi, ABR,CM,CRB,FHS,PB,RB
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Rabi has all the good toys. 
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Richwhitboy
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quote:
Sorry Aaron, while it is true that they offered a new car with the purchase of the homes, they also raised the prices by $20K at the same time. Cutting losses?! What losses? Their construction cost was around $120/sq.ft. and bought the lots for less than $40K. Add the marketing cost and do your math.
Well I checked http://www.hawaiiinformation.com/REsearch/
There is currently 12 houses for sale in
Discovery Harbour. Now 16 more houses are
dumped on to the market. It doesn't take
a rocket scientist to see that is going
to have adverse effect on property values
(at least in the short term). Whats worse is the fact the upset price is less than what the other steel frame homeowners bought their houses for.
I stand by my assetion that they are cutting and running. It states that on the auction
website.They are freeing up capital because of death in the family...which is pretty lame excuse.
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Hi
I am new to this so go easy. IF you were going to buy on the BI now or within the next six months and hold for 4-5 years before you were to build where would you go. let say you have 75 to 100K cash. Where are the best bang for your buck. would you buy a few properties one great one. What does your crystal ball tell you.
Keith
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Oh, I think a lot with lots of junk cars, a lava tube and a blue rock next to a meth lab in any area would be a great investment! 
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John S. Rabi, ABR,CM,CRB,FHS,PB,RB
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Check out the discussion in the thread "Your Favorite Subdivision" for a lot of peoples opinions on that. As I've said before, "it depends". It depends on what's important to you, be it availability of water, lava zone, ease of commute to town, etc.
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My crystal ball says you should buy our mainland house. You've got the down payment.
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Richwhiteboy
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Hi Keith, The subdivision thread is on the building forum. I brought it forward for you to read thru. Mella
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I watch CNBC all day- last week they had the hi-viz outspoken fund manager Ken Heebner who declared home prices were going to return to levels they were in 2000. Did I hear that right??? Something tells me I'll buy way before then. Of course since then there been a lot more discussion and debate on this topic.
They said the mortgage lenders don't like to foreclose cause it's expensive and want to head off consumer induced legislature to curb lending.
Others want to make friends- I just want to make money.
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