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Hi, we are looking at property in the Puna area. We have friends there and really like it. Before we moved to Montana part-time we purchased a recreational lot in a beautiful area in Stillwater County, MT, near Yellowstone National Park. We have now purchased a residence and realize that we don't use the rec property much anymore now that we live within 40 minutes of it. We still play a lot out there, yet go home afterward.
We'd like to see if there is any interest in exchanging or at least using for a partial down on a lot in the Puna area. We like HPP or Orchidland.
Info about the ranch our lot is located on can be found at http://www.cmra.us/home.html this is an area of mostly summer and weekend homes. The ranch is open space we all own, and then we own our individual lot.
The value on the lot is $15,000. Comes with power, phone, community water system, road maintenence, a club house and stocked lakes. Wild life and beautiful views galore.
If anyone is interested or knows someone who may be email me.
http://crazypineappledream.blogspot.com/
Enjoy the day! Ann
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Asly,I don't have anything to offer.
But I'd like to ask you a question :
Is a "recreational lot" an official term and if it is,can the lot be used for a residential property?
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Well, there are people that live there year-round, and in large cabins. But the majority of the folks that own cabins are there part-time, weekends and summer residents. It's really windy there in the winter, not a lot of snow, not as much as where I'm at in Red Lodge, just more wind. So, when it's 20 degrees in the winter, with the wind, it can be -10. But to answer, yes, it can be residential, just more people don't live there year-round, I call it recreational property.
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Thank you,Asleys ,all 3 of you [  ] ( read your blog)
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Welcome to PunaWeb Asly! Nice to run into you again.
StillHope - In the Mountain West recreational lot is generally used to describe remote property where people have cabins or small ranches and they go to get away and play and may have a 2nd home or cabin. There is generally not any strict zoning associated with what can go there or if it can be occupied full-time. Similar to a lot of Puna I guess ;-)
-Blake
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Thank you,Bb1!
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Hi Asly,
Really enjoyed your blog postings. We are also "split" living-wise with a lot in HPP that we've been improving slowly over the last few years (put in a well, lots of landscaping an a small orchard that is just starting to fruit). We live and work in Vancouver, B.C. close to your WA location...there's also a cabin + 20 acres in MT that we built back in 1993 for about $20K. It's not located in your area, though, but 23 miles NE of Choteau at the base of the Rocky Mountain front. We refer to our plan to live in Hawaii (part-timers as well) as our "impractical dream."
Laura and Aki
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Yes! instead of the "crazy pineapple dream" the "impractical dream" sounds more realistic. Funny how your locations are similar to ours, so you know how wonderful each place can be. I know Choteau, been there and love Vancouver. Seems to be cheaper air fare out of Vancouver to Hawaii than Seattle.
Question, did you have items shipped, via container over from Vancouver? Can you tell me when, who and what costs were? We are looking at a 20 ft, but might not need that much.
Do you camp on your lot in HPP? Seems to be a popular subdivision.
Cheers, Ann
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Enjoy the day! Ann
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Somewhat off-topic, but Aki's cabin location caught my eye. Have y'all read the Ivan Doig books? If not, you should! Wonderful reads about that neck of the Montana woods. While I've never lived in Montana, I spent lots of time there camping when I was a kid, and my Dad spent much of his career with the Water Power company in dams in Northern Montana. Doig's novels inspired my brother and I to take a road trip up into that area not too many years back.
Books: Dancing at the Rascal Fair, English Creek, Ride With Me Mariah Montana, This House of Sky, Mountain Time, and more...
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Ann the HPP site is at the link below and there is also contact information on the site. There is a discussion board there as well but it is a bit of a sleeper.
http://www.hawaiianparadisepark.org/
-Blake
http://www.theboysgreatescape.blogspot.com/
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