02-12-2014, 04:11 AM
Welcome to Puna, Mike and Paul! With your budget, I would say you have made the right choice, there is still plenty of affordable housing available here.
You can still swim when you live here, you just have to drive a bit further. The real estate market seems to be picking up (in my non-expert opinion) so it could be a good time to be an RE agent here. There are already plenty (800 on the Big Island, I think) but there's always room for more good ones, i.e. ones that will actually make an effort to earn their money. Check out HPP, it's a great place to live and forget about the Dallas snow.
You can still swim when you live here, you just have to drive a bit further. The real estate market seems to be picking up (in my non-expert opinion) so it could be a good time to be an RE agent here. There are already plenty (800 on the Big Island, I think) but there's always room for more good ones, i.e. ones that will actually make an effort to earn their money. Check out HPP, it's a great place to live and forget about the Dallas snow.