If you’re looking at Fern Forest, you may want to try Hawaiian Acres first.
Did you see Fern Forest’s Community Association website?
http://www.aloha.net/~ffcamrma/ They, unlike Eden Roc, have mandatory road fees. You could appreciate this, or not, depending on your perspective. But, I’ve not seen that their roads are much more effective on saving your car’s suspension system than Eden Roc’s or Hawaiian Acres; which, incidentally, does not have mandatory road fees either. But, Hawaiian Acres does have Jacobsen, our district’s councilman living in it’s subdivision and he is a real activist in his community; something Eden Roc lacks more substantially than we know. Fern Forest has their development “hui” but it seems to be politically inclined in order to fill the open, outstretched hand if you know what I mean.
I really have nothing great to say about that subdivision, if you know what I mean.
Which lot and location:
You’ll need the TMK: Tax Map Key
Then, look it up on the county records here:
http://www.hawaiipropertytax.com/Accoun ... nu=Account
Enter the tmk, it will tell you when and for how much that lot last sold for. Also, choose map and get some of the surrounding tmk’s to compare sales.
KEY: Corner lots are always better to buy, especially in an unimproved subdivision.
Easier access for a “circular driveway”, easier access for delivery of water, building materials, pick-up of sewage or whatever; two choices of roads on corner lots. Also, if you look (as I did) at the police and fire blotters, it seems that the probability of “happenings” are lower (rip-offs, fires etc.). Call the fire and police depts, they’ll help you with that.
But, you really, if you’re going to live there, you really need to drive around and look at what surrounds you. In fact, if you can walk the road you’re interested in buying on and at least the two surrounding roads on a weekday morning, say 6:30 to 7:30 am and on a Saturday night, say just before and just after sunset you’ll really get an idea of what kind of neighborhood you’re buying into.
Yea, you have to keep after Wally, but remember what the law requires a real estate agent to tell you and what you really need to know may be two different things. You’re agent, his/her client only needs to tell you if there is a lava tube…..if…..they know that there is one, etc. They don’t have to tell you if it is a high crime, high poverty area. They don’t have to tell you that your neighbor grows pot and all the hub-hub that goes with that.
k, let me know if you have spec questions, laters