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    Thread: few bad pics from my big island home shopping trip

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      few bad pics from my big island home shopping trip

      I am not sure when I will get there yet but my wife & I bought a home on the big island recently. Our retirement plan seemed to be possible earlier than we thought financially and it seemed like buying a home now might beat the increases in many states that may make homes less affordable. I did try taking some pictures underwater and have a lot to learn and need a better camera. You can at least see the coolest thing I captured there below though. I may be able to clean these up and post them again later and wish I had the photo shopping app so many reefers use for coral sales to capture half of the experience I saw.



      this trumpet fish was using the turtle to block himself from being seen and snatching small fish from the shadow of the turtle. I watched this for about ten minutes.








      The last pic below is the home we purchased outside of Hilo in Pahoa. There are a lot of retired mainlanders already in some nice communities and other parts of Pahoa aren't as nice (safe) there but the price was far more reasonable than a home even here. We look out over the water from a block away. Anyone else that is considering it may want to look at the big island too. I will be on the boards a few more years most likely until my wife is ready for the move, till then it will be a vacation home.

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      Nice! I drove through that area in February, good find!

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      Nice! Im jealous. Thats the end goal for me.

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      I love Hawaii almost one year since I got married there. Beautiful place love the home.

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      Wait, where did you go exactly? I just left hawaii 2 weeks ago lol

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      Rent that bad boy out!

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      Quote Originally Posted by bstout2014 View Post
      Nice! I drove through that area in February, good find!
      That was when we were there, flew back on Valentine's day.

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      No doubt, I was there three weeks ago. Do you rent that place out?

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      Quote Originally Posted by cboltsd View Post
      No doubt, I was there three weeks ago. Do you rent that place out?

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      +1 went to Oahu need to visit more places next time

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      Ha ha, I was just in Hawaii too! It's like sdreefs hawaii time or something!

      Congratulations knightnsd, you have achieved a serious life goal there, I hope you enjoy it!

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      thanks all, I hope more people think about it while it remains affordable, my thought was to try and beat home price increases since their economy is slow there. Since a few asked about renting, here is the lanai view that sealed the deal really for my wife & I. My father recently passed away with alzheimer's and that had a large impact on me considering retirement and planning financially for it earlier than later. His altered mind made a lot of poor decisions so planning ahead now seemed more urgent to me for retirement than later. I mention this to make others aware of their parents and people that may prey upon them as well as to hope that many people plan for retirement better.



      We are not rich but saw this as a rare opportunity to eventually retire in Hawaii while homes are still affordable between the Volcano activity in the past and slow market there. The home is in Hawaiian Shore Estates, a private community of roads, a gym, pool, tennis courts, etc. and there were some homes around us that are still affordable as well, if anyone wants to talk to our realtor there, pm me. He was a no pressure-sales guy and that was a pleasant surprise, I guess the island has mellowed him out. Depending on proximity to the water, Homes are low 200's on up on a decent home that here would be far more. Property taxes are lower based on the home value plus a large credit once you move there full time. They make their money on tourism much like Nevada so taxes aren't as bad as I thought and are less than here. I guess you could say I am upsizing from my 300 reef to an ocean eventually .

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      Congrats on the new home. Now when you want to put something in your reef tank you just need to go to the ocean and get it, Lol just kidding off course

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      Congrats Next meeting is on the big island!!!!!

      +1 on renting that guy out I get free rides to Hawaii so that's a cheap vacation for me!!!!

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      Quote Originally Posted by knightnsd View Post
      thanks all, I hope more people think about it while it remains affordable, my thought was to try and beat home price increases since their economy is slow there. Since a few asked about renting, here is the lanai view that sealed the deal really for my wife & I. My father recently passed away with alzheimer's and that had a large impact on me considering retirement and planning financially for it earlier than later. His altered mind made a lot of poor decisions so planning ahead now seemed more urgent to me for retirement than later. I mention this to make others aware of their parents and people that may prey upon them as well as to hope that many people plan for retirement better.



      We are not rich but saw this as a rare opportunity to eventually retire in Hawaii while homes are still affordable between the Volcano activity in the past and slow market there. The home is in Hawaiian Shore Estates, a private community of roads, a gym, pool, tennis courts, etc. and there were some homes around us that are still affordable as well, if anyone wants to talk to our realtor there, pm me. He was a no pressure-sales guy and that was a pleasant surprise, I guess the island has mellowed him out. Depending on proximity to the water, Homes are low 200's on up on a decent home that here would be far more. Property taxes are lower based on the home value plus a large credit once you move there full time. They make their money on tourism much like Nevada so taxes aren't as bad as I thought and are less than here. I guess you could say I am upsizing from my 300 reef to an ocean eventually .
      300 to the Ocean haha nice...

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      Let's do credit checks and everything to rent it out
      <<<<<<<<<tier 1 almost perfect max score credit lol

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