10-05-2008, 08:29 AM
Thanks for sharing your story Mark. Very thoughtful and balanced.
I've run into the "wanted to buy the property but weren't able to" bad energy. We have had only one weird episode with a local since moving here, and it turned into a bizarre fight that shouldn't have been a fight.
Well, we ended up talking it out -- actually there was a third party, his boss, who insisted he talk it out because he was making the company look bad -- and what came out was resentment because the property had been for sale once before and he had wanted to buy it, and a non-local bought it.
The prior sale, there was a tenant displaced by the seller who took out his anger on the buyer (this was before me), who told the buyer it's the tradition to destroy or remove the good plants before a haole comes in.
Whether he was making up this "tradition" or not, the resentment towards people who are able to buy land by people who can't is real enough. The same guy was later able to buy a lot in HPP and I have met him since then and he's all happy now because he's moved on, but he told me that when he felt displaced his head was in a bad space about it, very angry.
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I've run into the "wanted to buy the property but weren't able to" bad energy. We have had only one weird episode with a local since moving here, and it turned into a bizarre fight that shouldn't have been a fight.
Well, we ended up talking it out -- actually there was a third party, his boss, who insisted he talk it out because he was making the company look bad -- and what came out was resentment because the property had been for sale once before and he had wanted to buy it, and a non-local bought it.
The prior sale, there was a tenant displaced by the seller who took out his anger on the buyer (this was before me), who told the buyer it's the tradition to destroy or remove the good plants before a haole comes in.
Whether he was making up this "tradition" or not, the resentment towards people who are able to buy land by people who can't is real enough. The same guy was later able to buy a lot in HPP and I have met him since then and he's all happy now because he's moved on, but he told me that when he felt displaced his head was in a bad space about it, very angry.
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