06-16-2018, 05:45 AM
You can get a mortgage on leased land.
There are currently 17 real estate listings on Big Island for single family homes that are on leasehold properties. A few in Puna:
https://www.alohaliving.com/search/search/?page=1&ipp=10&idxid=HawaiiInformationService&island=3&form=RES&tenure=LH&minprice=0&maxprice=1316134911&minbeds=0&maxbeds=999&minbaths=0&maxbaths=999&minarea=0&maxarea=0&sorttype=price&sortdir=desc
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
There are currently 17 real estate listings on Big Island for single family homes that are on leasehold properties. A few in Puna:
https://www.alohaliving.com/search/search/?page=1&ipp=10&idxid=HawaiiInformationService&island=3&form=RES&tenure=LH&minprice=0&maxprice=1316134911&minbeds=0&maxbeds=999&minbaths=0&maxbaths=999&minarea=0&maxarea=0&sorttype=price&sortdir=desc
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
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