“Kuleana: Knowing Your Responsiblity”

Kathy: Thanks for the support!  (racing for first place again?)  :)

Katerina: Thanks for coming by!

Lenn: My cousin has been an inspector with the building department for over 20 years. She helps me a lot when I have questions on zoning/permits and such. If she doesn't have the answer she asks all her friends. It starts with the people behind those desks ...that's for sure!

Cynthia:  Due diligence for buying all types of property is key here. Many older neighborhoods were not even surveyed correctly. In one subdivision we didn't even know who's wall was on what property or who built the walls....until the survey was done. Once all our laws were put into place the Associations started building. A planned or organized community usually has an association...although it sure makes it pleasant to the eye!

Linda: I have learned so much from researching as well as my cousin who is a building inspector. It does pay off to know our stuff when buyers need to know.....  I keep going back to ancient burial site laws and such because it really is a big thing to want to preserve the ancient history of our islands.

Matt:  Okay....cheerleading by Matt...cool.

Neal:  I'll get to it today!  (office the last two days so got a lot to catch up on...gotta do some stuff with my website as well)

Gary: The photos are all mine...I just soften the edges with Microsoft Digital Photo Plus software.

Steph:  Not everyone gets into research .... I just chose to so I can be well informed.  We have many Hawaiian groups and other groups who stay on top of it....not to mention the individuals who care.

janeAnne: You are always so supportive janeAnne!  Click on the zoning link in the post..... I wrote a little about it before and thought I'd just link.... as well as coastal property etc.

Mary:  I get so much support from the Eco group when I write these posts...thank you all!  We may all have had bad zoning laws before...now that ours are in place you can bet your bottom that they enforce.....heavily!

Fran:  Okay...you're getting all deep here. We only have so much land here so there aren't too many new home building going on like over there. They have done much in the way of tearing down and rebuilding...which make a neighborhood more eye appealing as they keep doing so.

Dan:  Good for you!

Bill: Thanks! It helps when one not only loves what they do but also where they live!

Lisa: You seem to be very inquisitive for our culture and languages. :) As you know, Hawaiians are a mixture of early settlers of Polynesian decent. 

Lysa: They have moved burial sites all along Lysa. They first try to determine what is best...to leave it on site or move. Same with cemetaries. They moved one in Wahiawa and that was back in the olden days. My broker sold a house where it used to be that cemetary and had to disclose there "used to be" a cemetary there.

Esko: Believe me....plenty of people are on top of it...like I mentioned above....my cousin is a building inspector and she's been running around from site to site for over 20 years. That's why it is imperative that we know what we're doing and make sure to inform our buyers...there is always going to be something going on....especially with vacant land or rebuilding. Everywhere they dig is going to be something....this island is too small to not have some kind of burial or leftover warriors and such.

Bill: My dad was born in Wakefield (he passed away in 2004) but he still had that New England accent. Pak the ca. hehe.  Right now we're storming.