if you bought a house in Puna in the last 5 years

[Jon]

I do have to say that 2 years ago the Real Estate Agents were very hit and miss, it took us 3 agents to buy a house.

I don't think the first one wanted to deal with a 200k to 300k deal, so they did not do any follow up after our first visit to the island.
The second would not stop showing us kit homes with no style at all.
Its funny how "we" (my wife and I) found a house to look at that might be the one, but the Second agent did not have the 15 minute it would take to let us look at it. Literally, they were showing us another kit home on a flat treeless lot 2 blocks from this house and did not want drive us by and look at it because they were to busy with something else. So we went an looked by ourselves and ran into the selling agent. This one showed us the house and then proceeded to show us 4 or 5 more houses in the styles we were looking for. This third agent spent more time with us in that 1 day the other 2 combined over 6 months.

We bought that house that we found ourselves and went though the selling agent. We never heard a word back from the other 2.
You might think this third agent made out well getting both side of the sale, but we used him for price negotiation, pushing paperwork through and training us on Hawaii Real Estate law/procedures. They also managed things at the house for us as we were out of state. So they earned their money dealing with us.


Finding a good agent is a key. Educating yourself is another.



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