Friend moving to Big Island...needs to buy a home

[Hotzcatz]

We just bought a house last month and it was mostly chosen because of the location and not anything else. It is rather amazing, how much stuff we didn't notice between looking at the house to buy it and what we now see after we own it. Not that it matters much since we bought the house for the neighborhood, but when we were looking at the house, we were mostly focused on the "macro" and not the "micro". The location and size of windows was noticed, the broken louver handles and the holes in the screens were missed. The house looked clean and tidy at the walk through but now I'm washing walls and doing a lot of yard cleanup. Still, in a forty year old house, one would expect that sort of thing.

Since your friends have family in Hawi, would it be better for them to look for a place along the Hamakua coast instead of HPP? They can get a house for about the same price as HPP in the North Hilo area and still have the same amount of commute time to Hilo and yet be able to visit their family in Hawi easier than from HPP. A lot less traffic, too. A bit further up the coast is Pauuilo and the school there is very good although the drive time to Hilo is on the edge of "too far" for a daily commute. But, before they choose HPP, they may want to check out the other areas around Hilo.

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