02-09-2011, 10:54 AM
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Originally posted by Bob Orts
I think part of it is that many people have criteria’s based on mainland standards, not local Hawaii standards. If I was to look at my mainland needs and compare it to availability on the Big Island, I would be hard pressed to find suitable homes outside the west side resort communities.... I was basing my Hawaii needs on my mainland standards and that reduced the inventory from many to a select few.
Overtime I’ve adjusted to making my needs more Hawaii standard and suddenly a whole new group of properties were available. The more mainland, the less inventory. The more Hawaii, the larger the inventory....
you are so very right on.
I stand by what I posted originally. In 4 - 5 months time there were over 100 houses that fit the same criteria the other poster had. There are tons of properties for sale and it is absolutely a buyers' market. You can get screaming deals right now. You are very lucky to be a buyer with all these choices.
Also agree it really helps to have a good agent who does what yours did. Our agent did not do any of the pro-active stuff like you describe. A good agent can find you a dream house even when it is not listed. Instead we had to do all the research and networking to find the houses and the realtor got us in to see the places we had found. But by doing all the work and putting the word out everywhere to everyone we found our house by word of mouth.
I think some of the criteria may need to be Hawaiian-ized a bit and maybe some dropped (as Bob Orts suggests in his post), but with all these houses available it is a shame not to be able to find one that fits for you.
hawaiideborah