This is off-topic but I MUST share it with everyone. There’s a web board on the Big Island of Hawaii, and this is a new thread:
Aloha to all,
If I could just ask a favor of all of my Kona Web friends.
We have a contract on a home in Kona that is going to fall thru if our mainland home doesn't sell soon. Since I believe in the power of prayer, I am asking all of you to say a prayer for me, that my mainland home sells really soon. I have reduced the price by $60,000 and spent $50,000 in a total remodel so it's like new. Sales are just really slow.
If you could just say a quick prayer, to God or Buddah or Pele or to whom ever you pray to. I truly believe in the power of all of your prayers to help me get my house sold so I can move to the BI. It has been 12 years of saving for me and now it’s sooo close. Mahalo to you all!
Response 1:
Good luck- I will be thinking positive thoughts. Having been through something like that, and paying mortgage on a house (waiting for it to sell in a slow market) while paying high rent for almost 18 months (the rent was actually a few hundred more then the mortgage), I know the stress it can put you under. Our income certainly was not enough to cover us — in fact, it qualified us for public assistance *without* the double mortgage/rent. That was over 4 years ago, and we are still in the hole BIG time.
Response 2:
Aloha Carol:
My prayers are to Godwith you . We too have a mainland home that we had up for sale in 2006. Escrow fell out at the last minute and for a year we have been paying two mortgages, utilities, gardener etc hoping that it would sell. When our financial hole got deeper, I traveled back to California and hired a property manager and our house is now rented..praise be to heaven’s intervention. I interviewed several managers before hiring this one and they seem to be worth their salt. We had remodeled as well and were hesitant to put our lovely and well loved home on the rental block. But there are many people mainland side who are now renting their homes that could not sell during this slump. Something to consider as it helps pay the mortgage. When this slump subsides, and it will as history has shown, values will climb back up and selling can be reconsidered. Or perhaps maybe we were meant to keep the home. Who knows what lies in the future.
Anyway, Good luck to you and we pray divine intervention in your case.
