I know a guy who bought a "garbage dump" 5-acre place and yeah, tons of crap to get rid of but he put in the work and got most of it cleared. Sweat equity.
@GreenGardenGuy1 The perspective I'm having here is: instead of no can, how can? Despite numerous setbacks. Still haven't given up. Stupidity, or tenacity? Land here is listed finally. I was sorta collecting land for a while. And yes. All of those spots started with a trash pile and/or castle.
@@mountain-man0 i crashed and burned several times in my life. the good one was divorce at 40 where I lost most of what I had worked for all my life. I started over and ended up here. Invest, even if you only have $100. That is what I started with andjust kept going.
@GreenGardenGuy1 my investment portfolio is pretty lopsided. All real estate. Uncertain times. I'd probably invest in solar and wind regardless of the time though.
@@mountain-man0 Many people consider realestate and investment. If you lease farm land or buildings to others then realestate is a good investment. If you own good land and grow crops on it fro sale then the land has value. Otherwise land is just a place to park you butt. If you want to invest do stocks and bonds they make profits.
I always loved visiting Hawaii but never thought I could afford living there. My house is worth $500,000 in the midwest. I always wondered about hospitals, groceries, gas, car, and other everyday living costs.
I would say it is too expensive to live here if you come from the Midwest. Spend 20 years in the CA, Bay area first if you want to get accustomed to the prices. As for me, I have no bills other than insurance and taxes. I run everything on the sun and own the rest outright.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I glad to see you made it work. I lived in Sacramento and spent time in the Bay Area. Also beautiful. I loved the beach just South of SF. I retired early so I don't plan on moving to somewhere more expensive. I would rather be retired with what I have. I watch your channel for now. 🙂
@@Rottingboards Being happy with your situation seems a rare human condition these days. I am very satisfied with the way life played out. It has been a long strange trip. Aloha
@ I heard Grateful Dead as I read it. LOL. Maybe you will share your long story in a video. I am very very happy with early retirement. My wife and I started out with $800 and no help. From old trailer park to the richest side of town. Hard long road until now so we treasure every day. 🙂
Sounds like a lot of the ads we have seen in the area. We continue to look, and the prices run like you said, from “cheap” to holy crap. Somewhere we believe the is a middle ground, maybe next trip over we will find the right one. It’s almost time to retire and the wife wants to go home. Aloha 🤙
we bought the best land we could find at twice the price I figured to pay. Then we built what we wanted on it. This turned out to be a wise choice. Things are paid off so the pricve is currently irrelavant. We are very happy with the location and the buildings.
I get to love 50 degree winter nights here. The frogs shut up. They are noisy again since the nights warmed up. I use citric acid in water, with a sprayer to control them.
@@srf2112 They keep climbing up the mountain. temperature and drought are about the only thing that will stop them. We had none in Mountain View when I purchased in 2004
People will put 1/8 acre on the market for $25,000 + over there. Rotten buildings - and the real estate agents will sell it for whatever they want, no education about what you need to live there, off grid etc. Maybe you need a new water tank, solar batteries etc. Not only should buyer beware, you should do your homework.
"Over there", try to remember I live "over there". We have some great realtors here but let the buyer beware. Always walk the land. You are the one that makes the sale, not the agent. The agents are mostly there to help with paper work. At least the good ones do.
In general, the entire east side. Specifically, the Hamakua coast is considered the best air. Draw a line from the town of Volcano to the north. Everything west of the line gets bad air more frequently than everything east of the line. The worst air in the state is in the district of Kau.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks Bill, this helps with my sitting in Indiana ice and snow and thinking about living in a place that won't kill me just walking my dog!
@@MichaelBWhiteMusic I recall walking the 1/8 mile from my maibox in Wisconsin at -35 degrees with a 20 mph wind. I told myself the weather must be better on Mars. Then I saw the Jays, finches and gross beaks all circling my feeder and eating to keep warm. I figured if the birds could handle it so could I. Worst decision I ever made.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Good to hear you're a man of few regrets, especially when that comes to where you chose to garden; a place where I presume the birds only die from old age, as I hope is the case for you
@@southendsurfer The shirt is a designer thing from Nordstrom. My friends and relatives like to dress me up. Not much confusing in this video. The statement was clear, no such thing as a deal on property in Hawaii, only cheap land. Things here sell by value. Custom homes, that over hang waterfall canyons with mountain and ocean views sell for rock star prices. Lava lands, lost in the woods, on terrible roads with meth labs next door sell pretty cheap. If you are lucky you find a low priced piece that has some potential after you invest a lot of time money and sweat. Thanks for watching, Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Well I appreciate the input! I would love to live in hawaii .... Indiana is just not the same. I would prefer lost in the woods honestly. that sounds great to me.
@@southendsurfer Lost in the woods in the Midwest is a decent thing to do. Lost in the woods in Hawaii is a great way to get your stuff ripped off every time you go to town. If you own 40 acres with a gate and good fences then lost in the woods is cool. Remaining visible here is the smart plan.
I know a guy who bought a "garbage dump" 5-acre place and yeah, tons of crap to get rid of but he put in the work and got most of it cleared. Sweat equity.
I don't mind a bit of work but cleaning up someone elses bad Karma isn't my fate in this life.
What about the Batu heads ?
I have no idea what you are asking. Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 He means meth heads
Termites are gripping fingers at the moment. 🤣😂
Make no loud noises. If you scare them the house could fall down. Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 LOL
Honestly, I'd take it. Every place I've ever bought was layers of trash. But I'm nuts.
There is a certain poetic justice in cleaning the spoils others leave. I tend to like archeology as opposed the 20th century trash.
@GreenGardenGuy1 The perspective I'm having here is: instead of no can, how can?
Despite numerous setbacks. Still haven't given up. Stupidity, or tenacity?
Land here is listed finally. I was sorta collecting land for a while. And yes. All of those spots started with a trash pile and/or castle.
@@mountain-man0 i crashed and burned several times in my life. the good one was divorce at 40 where I lost most of what I had worked for all my life. I started over and ended up here. Invest, even if you only have $100. That is what I started with andjust kept going.
@GreenGardenGuy1 my investment portfolio is pretty lopsided. All real estate. Uncertain times. I'd probably invest in solar and wind regardless of the time though.
@@mountain-man0 Many people consider realestate and investment. If you lease farm land or buildings to others then realestate is a good investment. If you own good land and grow crops on it fro sale then the land has value. Otherwise land is just a place to park you butt. If you want to invest do stocks and bonds they make profits.
I always loved visiting Hawaii but never thought I could afford living there. My house is worth $500,000 in the midwest. I always wondered about hospitals, groceries, gas, car, and other everyday living costs.
I would say it is too expensive to live here if you come from the Midwest. Spend 20 years in the CA, Bay area first if you want to get accustomed to the prices. As for me, I have no bills other than insurance and taxes. I run everything on the sun and own the rest outright.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I glad to see you made it work. I lived in Sacramento and spent time in the Bay Area. Also beautiful. I loved the beach just South of SF. I retired early so I don't plan on moving to somewhere more expensive. I would rather be retired with what I have. I watch your channel for now. 🙂
@@Rottingboards Being happy with your situation seems a rare human condition these days. I am very satisfied with the way life played out. It has been a long strange trip. Aloha
@ I heard Grateful Dead as I read it. LOL. Maybe you will share your long story in a video. I am very very happy with early retirement. My wife and I started out with $800 and no help. From old trailer park to the richest side of town. Hard long road until now so we treasure every day. 🙂
@@Rottingboards Rewind the channel. I've been telling the story for the past 15 years. For the strange parts check the playlist for paranormal & UFO.
Sounds like a lot of the ads we have seen in the area. We continue to look, and the prices run like you said, from “cheap” to holy crap. Somewhere we believe the is a middle ground, maybe next trip over we will find the right one. It’s almost time to retire and the wife wants to go home. Aloha 🤙
we bought the best land we could find at twice the price I figured to pay. Then we built what we wanted on it. This turned out to be a wise choice. Things are paid off so the pricve is currently irrelavant. We are very happy with the location and the buildings.
Not to mention the coqui frog menace there. You can hear them in the background. They are loud, very annoying and getting worse by the day.
I get to love 50 degree winter nights here. The frogs shut up. They are noisy again since the nights warmed up. I use citric acid in water, with a sprayer to control them.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I lived in upper Puna near Volcano for several years. They were not too bad up there in 2017 but got noticeably worse by 2020.
@@srf2112 They keep climbing up the mountain. temperature and drought are about the only thing that will stop them. We had none in Mountain View when I purchased in 2004
Coqui acres , with views of Kilauea
Now that the nights are warmer the frogs are back. I love cold nights here, they are quiet.
People will put 1/8 acre on the market for $25,000 + over there. Rotten buildings - and the real estate agents will sell it for whatever they want, no education about what you need to live there, off grid etc. Maybe you need a new water tank, solar batteries etc. Not only should buyer beware, you should do your homework.
"Over there", try to remember I live "over there". We have some great realtors here but let the buyer beware. Always walk the land. You are the one that makes the sale, not the agent. The agents are mostly there to help with paper work. At least the good ones do.
What part of the Big Island is mostly vog-free?
In general, the entire east side. Specifically, the Hamakua coast is considered the best air. Draw a line from the town of Volcano to the north. Everything west of the line gets bad air more frequently than everything east of the line. The worst air in the state is in the district of Kau.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks Bill, this helps with my sitting in Indiana ice and snow and thinking about living in a place that won't kill me just walking my dog!
@@MichaelBWhiteMusic I recall walking the 1/8 mile from my maibox in Wisconsin at -35 degrees with a 20 mph wind. I told myself the weather must be better on Mars. Then I saw the Jays, finches and gross beaks all circling my feeder and eating to keep warm. I figured if the birds could handle it so could I. Worst decision I ever made.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Good to hear you're a man of few regrets, especially when that comes to where you chose to garden; a place where I presume the birds only die from old age, as I hope is the case for you
Nice shirt.
It is a gift. My friends and relatives like to dress me up like a Ken doll.
is burial in the backyard allowed in puna hawaii
Lava
Only after cremation and the EPA wants it at sea, several miles from land. I wasn't planning to ask, my ashes, my orange trees.
Crap! Did you see that about the helicopter and the airliner?
I have been on a news fast since the election. Going to my email I saw the article but didn't read it. Ellen did, I hear it was a complete loss.
Hawaiian ocean view estate is cheap land.
The price indicates the value of the land. It is a bad as it gets on this Island.
wtf?
I can translate the comment but have no idea what it means.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Dude I was looking at land to buy in Hawaii for cheap, but your video confused me. Cool Shirt looks like Hawaii X Chicago hybrid
@@southendsurfer The shirt is a designer thing from Nordstrom. My friends and relatives like to dress me up. Not much confusing in this video. The statement was clear, no such thing as a deal on property in Hawaii, only cheap land. Things here sell by value. Custom homes, that over hang waterfall canyons with mountain and ocean views sell for rock star prices. Lava lands, lost in the woods, on terrible roads with meth labs next door sell pretty cheap. If you are lucky you find a low priced piece that has some potential after you invest a lot of time money and sweat. Thanks for watching, Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Well I appreciate the input! I would love to live in hawaii .... Indiana is just not the same. I would prefer lost in the woods honestly. that sounds great to me.
@@southendsurfer Lost in the woods in the Midwest is a decent thing to do. Lost in the woods in Hawaii is a great way to get your stuff ripped off every time you go to town. If you own 40 acres with a gate and good fences then lost in the woods is cool. Remaining visible here is the smart plan.