When you first arrive.. where to live?

[Lee M-S]

We expected to buy in HPP when we moved here in 2005, and had a 30 day rental there. Then we tried Hawaiian Beaches, Kapoho, Papaiko, Honomu, Northern Mt. View, South Kona, Na'alehu, Orchidland, and Hilo. 10 places in 3 years MAY be overdoing the whole "rent first, then buy" plan. We finally bought in southern Mt. View and love it. Serendipitously, real estate prices were falling the whole time, and we wound up saving more on the price of our house than we had paid out in rent all that time.

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