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Future Dweller, I have lived in Discovery Harbour for over ten years. Feel free to contact me privately through the forum and I can answer all your questions.
Personally, I think in these times it's much easier to buy an existing house. All of the good contractors are scheduled out two or three years in advance (seriously!).
I very much appreciate your offer and insights, Dreaming of Hawaii. With research and due diligence, I have come to the same conclusion as you mentioned. That being said, I've made an offer on an existing house (crossing my fingers!).
I very much appreciate your offer and insights, Dreaming of Hawaii. With research and due diligence, I have come to the same conclusion as you mentioned. That being said, I've made an offer on an existing house (crossing my fingers!).
Please send me a private message and I may be able to give you some insight. I'm familiar with all the houses in DH that are currently on the market.
Perhaps as a mainland prospective buyer you'd be able to tell us of the concern all the mainland buyers seem to have about cesspools? Is it just because they aren't familiar with them? Many of the older houses on this island as well as some of the not so much older houses have them and when mainland folks make offers of them, there's always a huge concern about the cesspool. Why is that?
Perhaps as a mainland prospective buyer you'd be able to tell us of the concern all the mainland buyers seem to have about cesspools? Is it just because they aren't familiar with them? Many of the older houses on this island as well as some of the not so much older houses have them and when mainland folks make offers of them, there's always a huge concern about the cesspool. Why is that?
I don't have to be a mainland buyer to know various concerns - besides the obvious environmental concerns - I'd be concerned about the costs to convert the cesspool. Each year you wait the costs go up.
Septic systems only work where there is soil for a leach field. Much of the BI has no such soil. As I understand it the mandate to switch from cesspool to septic has an exemption for "no soil".
I looked inside our cesspool once with a night vision camera, other than a bunch of cockroaches it looked completely empty. Like brand new. The liquids drain into the porous rock and the solids... I guess they are eaten by cockroaches.
I know a guy who looked into his 80-year old cesspool and reported the same experience.
As far as environmental concerns, I've read that is a serious concern near sea level where the stuff can leach into the ocean or people's wells. But at higher elevations where there is no soil, the "stuff" gets filtered by the rock and becomes inert.
Yeah, it eventually does. 415 S Beretania St. in Honolulu.
Baaad Monkey! No dessert.
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