02-10-2015, 12:07 AM
Finally it's official. Everyone who claimed with seeming authority that property values have dropped 50% since lava threaten have their claims dampened. I'm ready to get a small studio/1BR as a second home among the seaside communities in lower Puna so I've been checking zillow for 50% off prices with no satisfaction at all. Maybe if 130 is lava closed it'll happen. I would be happy to only go to town once a week even if 110miles round trip for the seclusion and quiescence of living in lower paradise. Then I might sell my OCE home and acreage. Meanwhile here in OCE new homes are being built gang busters. 4 in my 1 mile long block over the past 6 months.