Thanks Tom. I owned a unit at Kona Magic Sands on The Big Island until I sold out in 2008, just before the crash. My accountant basically told me I was a fool and ended our relationship but I got out when my unit was at the peak of the bubble. I am glad to not own anything in the US now since it was so complicated. Do you know about what the early missionaries did? They knew it was a paradise so they got the laws changed so that (and this is changing) no one could buy a piece of land. You had to lease the land and when the lease ran out, you had to renegotiate the lease. It was and is a ripoff of grand proportions. Nowadays condos and private lease holders are buying back the property from families of the missionaries like my condo association did but it was an outrageous land grab even then. I think that outrageous deal with a few missionary families is one of the reasons the globalists chose Maui. In Hawaii, maybe everywhere, there is a very cozy relationship among the rich haole families, globalists, and the state government, while usually the real Hawaiians, the Chinese, Japanese, and other ethnic groups are mostly screwed and will probably be screwed again as you described. (The Japanese came to work on the sugarcane plantations but being way clever, now wield a lot of power in the Islands.) What happened was straight-up mass murder, as you said, and there are a lot of lawyers working for those ethnic groups, so let's hope they can stall any more murder land steals. I am glad not to living in the US now but I do not blame the average citizen; it's those globalist predators that I detest. Good to hear from you.