03-29-2010, 01:59 PM
why by exhisting? because the planning department and other county people you have to deal with are ...ah..... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm what word/words do I use? incompitent? Slow? Lost? Understaffed? inefficent?
You should look at older better made homes like 15-20yr old owner builder homes. There are some really great ones but without spending time locally you really shouldn't consider buying anything until you experience Puna first. An LOOK on the ground not on line.
Older homes most often have mature landscaping. The junk spec homes have albizia trees growing in their gutters. And like 808 mentioned made from the cheapest china/home depot junk money can be wasted on. Don't know how many hours I've stood in return lines.
But! promissory estopel in business law 101, basically says you have the right to goods and services proportionate to the good money you pay. That's really tough to find these days.lol Buyer beware is more like it.
Google Puna and look at the topography. Realize if the property is on a slope, all your improvements will cost more. HPP is desireable because the slop is only a few hundred feet elevation over the 3 miles from highway to ocean. But one acre is a small lot when they all get stripped of vegitation.. And hpp being the second largest sub-devision in the country has a plithera of it's own problems.
I'd just like to ask ALL of you reading these posts, if you planing on moving here, please don't "CLEAR" any more lots pin to pin. There are enough ugly gravel parking lots with boxes sitting on them. I just get sick when someone comes in and rips the natural hills and valleys of the original lava fllow to make a flat square. Like somewhere you're moving from? Clearing a house pad on the back half of the lot up a s curve driveway will afford you more privacy, less dust from the road in everything in your life and there are some really beautiful natural species growing right there before you scrape it all away.
Garbage grows back when you rip off the natural cover. Invasive species take hold faster than your walmart starters. Research the species and the area before you find out too late.
Any fool can make a rule, and Every fool will follow it. -- Henry David Thoreau
You should look at older better made homes like 15-20yr old owner builder homes. There are some really great ones but without spending time locally you really shouldn't consider buying anything until you experience Puna first. An LOOK on the ground not on line.
Older homes most often have mature landscaping. The junk spec homes have albizia trees growing in their gutters. And like 808 mentioned made from the cheapest china/home depot junk money can be wasted on. Don't know how many hours I've stood in return lines.
But! promissory estopel in business law 101, basically says you have the right to goods and services proportionate to the good money you pay. That's really tough to find these days.lol Buyer beware is more like it.
Google Puna and look at the topography. Realize if the property is on a slope, all your improvements will cost more. HPP is desireable because the slop is only a few hundred feet elevation over the 3 miles from highway to ocean. But one acre is a small lot when they all get stripped of vegitation.. And hpp being the second largest sub-devision in the country has a plithera of it's own problems.
I'd just like to ask ALL of you reading these posts, if you planing on moving here, please don't "CLEAR" any more lots pin to pin. There are enough ugly gravel parking lots with boxes sitting on them. I just get sick when someone comes in and rips the natural hills and valleys of the original lava fllow to make a flat square. Like somewhere you're moving from? Clearing a house pad on the back half of the lot up a s curve driveway will afford you more privacy, less dust from the road in everything in your life and there are some really beautiful natural species growing right there before you scrape it all away.
Garbage grows back when you rip off the natural cover. Invasive species take hold faster than your walmart starters. Research the species and the area before you find out too late.
Any fool can make a rule, and Every fool will follow it. -- Henry David Thoreau