It really gets me right here in the guts whenever there is something written about real estate. To me, it has no meaning. Who really cares about the Realtors joining groups and making them better for the people of Kauai.
It really gets me right here in the guts whenever there is something written about real estate. To me, it has no meaning. Who really cares about the Realtors joining groups and making them better for the people of Kauai. What people? The poor or the rich? Why is it so important that they write just for the rich, and not for people of my stature, the poor?
Ask those who have been hiding in the bushes at Walmart, the trees at the Hanamaulu Beach, the County Building, and places where they don’t have to pay the high costs of rentals, or listening to all the BS handed to them as they look towards the government for help. Ask those who are at Lydgate at the soccer field sleeping in their cars, in their trucks and on the beaches. Ask them. Do they really care whether you, the Realtors, have joined groups? Do you believe they care?
You Realtors have said many times that there aren’t any more lands for the rich people, but there are lands for the locals who cannot afford to buy them. The locals who cannot afford them? Boy, that’s a kick in the balls. And guess what? Who did this to us, or who really are the ones who are responsible to put us this way? Us, the Hawaiians, or better yet, the locals? Or those who were only looking out for themselves at the costs of the Hawaiian people. Isn’t it hilarious and sinful what money would do for you?
And by the way, what income bracket must one be to be eligible for affordable houses? What is affordable houses? Hanamaulu, the new subdivision at $400,000 to $500,000? It was once posted as affordable houses. Kukuiula? Were they talking about the rich again? Those only making around $20,000 to $30,000 couldn’t and wouldn’t be able to afford those types of homes. So, who were they addressing this to?
I am very curious to know how the Aliomanu estates, being once an agricultural land and later was able to become a residential land. It was a pineapple land, and the planes came in only to bring in supplies. And to think that the Hawaiian Homes project in Anahola became so difficult to get into because of the many red tapes the people had to go through just so they could get a house on that land. I have had friends who were once qualified and were able to get a place there, but had to go through all those stupid red tapes and made it difficult for them. Why? Weren’t those lands made available to the Hawaiian people having 50 percent or more Hawaiian in them? And who are those who were telling them they must and needed to meet certain criteria to get land in those projects, the Hawaiian Home projects.
Of course you, the Realtors, won’t give a rat’s behind if you didn’t talk to or help those low-income people, because those things are not your intentions. How much of a take will you get if you did sell to the poor? Nothing!!! Compare that to the million-dollar sales that you’d make for doing that for the rich. That’s a bundle of greens in your pockets.
I am sick and tired reading about the rich. Work for the poor, poor and more of the poor. I really don’t care whether you all have joined groups, but then, you won’t and don’t care whether I spoke for the poor, too. You’d probably say that the feelings are mutual. Bull!! Not of my standings.
For all I care, you should give those lands back to the Hawaiians. You too, Mark Zuckerberg.
You Realtors are only for the rich. If you’d say otherwise, I know you are lying. Every time I hear about real estate, it just runs my temperature to 212 degrees.
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Ray Domingo is a resident of Hanamaulu.
