03-06-2018, 06:32 PM
I agree Chunkster. It is sheer desperation that brings me to consider turning the whole mess over to the County.
Hmmmm. Frying pan or fire?
Not much of a choice.
People used to call HPP the Sleeping Giant. No more. I’ve only seen this kind of development once before after Oprah, ( and was it Trump?) was on TV telling people the last place for cheap land was Puna. Within days droves of Mainlanders arrived looking for their piece of Paradise.. I was on the mainland 10days and when I returned there were 13 newly lots dozed on my block! We couldn’t even walk the dogs without some people in fancy SUV’s asking if we wanted to sell our homes for 10times what they were worth. Mainland people (happily) paid over 100k for a lot in HPP and built. Every one of those new spec houses were foreclosed on when the market bottomed out and the new people left. Lots of empty houses for rippers and vagrants to use.
I think Mrs. Mimosa is right and things will slow down again, but the end result I fear is that we will be priced out of our homes eventually by taxes and regulations.
Hmmmm. Frying pan or fire?
Not much of a choice.
People used to call HPP the Sleeping Giant. No more. I’ve only seen this kind of development once before after Oprah, ( and was it Trump?) was on TV telling people the last place for cheap land was Puna. Within days droves of Mainlanders arrived looking for their piece of Paradise.. I was on the mainland 10days and when I returned there were 13 newly lots dozed on my block! We couldn’t even walk the dogs without some people in fancy SUV’s asking if we wanted to sell our homes for 10times what they were worth. Mainland people (happily) paid over 100k for a lot in HPP and built. Every one of those new spec houses were foreclosed on when the market bottomed out and the new people left. Lots of empty houses for rippers and vagrants to use.
I think Mrs. Mimosa is right and things will slow down again, but the end result I fear is that we will be priced out of our homes eventually by taxes and regulations.