A Balinese House, from Bali?

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I really like the look of the Bali houses too, BUT I recently heard a nightmare story from a couple whose house was auctioned of at the dock in Honolulu because the Balinese shipping agent they had paid to oversee handling the shipment (this is almost never handled by the house supplier) went belly up while their house was between Bali and Hawaii. They had paid in full once the house was completed and two years later are still trying to get either their house or their money back. What a nightmare!

I would be scared to do this mostly because of international shipping issues, not Hawaii permitting issues. What happens if the container with your house in it is one of the containers which occasionally wash overboard? When I lived in Oregon the OSU marine scientists were tracking currents for over 3 years by where Nikes ended up after a container went overboard!

Is there anyone on the board who knows how the importing part of the process is supposed to work for the Bali houses?

carol