Big Island Buyer\’s Brokers

One of the interesting real estate products in Hawaii is the agricultural subdivision. Some of them are extremely nice, featuring large rolling pastures sparsely dotted with fine homes on what used to be scrubby grazing land. These subdivisions may or may not be used to produce agricultural products, but they sure do benefit the property tax people!

Not long after the first Republican Governor since the 1962 took office, the State Legislature overrode her veto of a State Bill that denied a developer’s right to restrict obnoxious agricultural practices within a new agricultural subdivision. This was a bill designed to help the small farmer but may well have sounded a death knell for new agricultural subdivisions.

Before this bill was passed over the Governor’s veto, the Codes Covenants and Restrictions (CC&R’s) of the subdivision would usually restrict obnoxious agricultural practices, so that everyone’s peace and property values were secured. It is not hard to see that new agricultural subdivisions without these restrictions are far less attractive than the old ones where the restrictions remain in place. For instance …

Let’s say that you have bought a very nice lot in an agricultural subdivision and intend to build your dream home on it. In order to purchase the lot you had to out-bid another buyer who now feels slighted and unhappy. He buys the lot next to yours - the lot on the upwind side of yours. Before you know it he is raising pigs and fighting cocks on his lot in full compliance with the agricultural zoning. Are you still going to build your dream home? Perhaps not.

this is just one more reason you should get an Exclusive Buyers Agent before you begin your adventure looking for a great property in America’s most desirable retirement area. Yours truly is a great choice for the Kohala Coast of the Big Island as well as Waimea, our country’s first cowboy town.

You too can live in Paradise … just be smart about it!

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