Moving to big island

[pahoated]

There are quite a few people being sucked in by cheap lot prices. There is a lot across from me that somebody bought sight-unseen off the internet. The lady apparently came out several years ago to find the whole lot was a hole about 30 feet down from the road level. Right next to it is a lot that is mostly a mound about 30 feet high. I think the estimate she got to fill the hole would be about 35K, essentially doubling the price of the lot, making it overpriced in comparison to other more buildable lots. Then the leveling, fill, septic, electric would be about another 20K. The cheap lot suddenly becomes a very over priced lot. There are other cheap lots that are covered with albizia and that other junk tree that grows fast and huge. People are finding it costs about 7K to 12K to just clear the trees before any leveling work. And then, there is the story of the guy in the cat that suddenly disappeared, it had broken through the ceiling of a lava tube. He didn't get injured but the lot ended up being unusable to build on.