11-15-2007, 04:36 AM
I have been here long enough to remember when leilani was a bad place to go , let alone live there. Like Punapetah is trying to promote, the NW got it together and run most of the "criminal element" that visited or lived in leilani out.
Hawaiian Acres also has a fairly strong neighborhood watch program - formal and informal both. Used to be if you were just visiting some one in the Acres, that a resident would stop you and just ask about where you were going. If you sounded faintly suspicious, the air waves would start to buzz with someone telling someone, etc until all sorts of people had stopped them to ask what they were doing. Definately that has somewhat stopped with so many people in there with realtors just looking at property.
Seaside Bob's theory is that you start making friends with any older people in your neighborhood - especially those who walk their dogs. Give them all your contact numbers. And when they call you seeing someone hanging around and you get there - be sure to thank them (profusely) - send a carpenter over to fix their 10 min gutter job. NO CHARGE. Or drop off a plant from your S/O's garden. Be a good neighbor before you move in and be sure your builders are good neighbors too and it helps.
Although someone might get snippity when you call them at work to say there is a green car in your driveway, and you have to say yah its just my mother in law... Dont get snippity. There may be that time when it isnt your mother in law.
Hawaiian Acres also has a fairly strong neighborhood watch program - formal and informal both. Used to be if you were just visiting some one in the Acres, that a resident would stop you and just ask about where you were going. If you sounded faintly suspicious, the air waves would start to buzz with someone telling someone, etc until all sorts of people had stopped them to ask what they were doing. Definately that has somewhat stopped with so many people in there with realtors just looking at property.
Seaside Bob's theory is that you start making friends with any older people in your neighborhood - especially those who walk their dogs. Give them all your contact numbers. And when they call you seeing someone hanging around and you get there - be sure to thank them (profusely) - send a carpenter over to fix their 10 min gutter job. NO CHARGE. Or drop off a plant from your S/O's garden. Be a good neighbor before you move in and be sure your builders are good neighbors too and it helps.
Although someone might get snippity when you call them at work to say there is a green car in your driveway, and you have to say yah its just my mother in law... Dont get snippity. There may be that time when it isnt your mother in law.