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I periodically check Puna real estate listings hoping someday to find that “perfect” house or plot of land. The other day I ran into this:
http://www.hilobrokers.com/cgi-bin/hb?!4...OadlaTKM30
You too can own a piece of land that may or may not soon be overrun by lava. And for only $10,000!
I think I’ll pass on this one.
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There are a bunch of lots like that for sale.
I would pay $1 an acre just for the novelty, but then would have to cough up the property taxes annually on a piece of worthless land.
Talk about your scam of the decade.
Wow! 10K! I'll sell mine for $9999.00. Showing an old picture of Kaimu Beach is kind of bizarre. Seems like an ethics violation to me.
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Originally posted by Mauka
Seems like an ethics violation to me.
It just proves that being a member of the NAR/HAR/HIBR/KBR does not guarantee ethics.[
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comes with new coat of lava.[
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Who says this isn't a "hot" real estate market!
Gotta admit that using the decades old brochure & beach pictures is more than a little misleading....
KC - I guess the "level lot" = the new coat of lava! I bet there are those that will see that ad & start dreaming of their "lot by the sea' (unfortunately, the river of lava is probably not in their dreams...)
Edit for typos, gauwd you would think by now I could type!
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It makes me laugh. I once went to a moving sale of a guy who had bought a several acre lot sight unseen in Hawai'i. Back then you could not do a lot of investigating over the internet, he was packing up and moving. Just from an ad in our local paper in Humboldt Co Cal. I always wondered what he found. Maybe he's a Puna Webber now?
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John,
I love it when you come in with comments like that !!! : ) : ) : )
Makes me smile everytime.
All the best,
pog
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If you could get one of these lots really really cheap it may not be such a bad deal. After the flow migrates to HPP or Kapoho, these lots would be suitable for a plant nursery or hydroponic farm. No weeds- Plenty sunshine.
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An old salesman saying is- There is an ass for every seat.
Someone will buy it if it is for sale
Gives a new meaning to hot seat
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