{"id":2020024,"date":"2023-09-02T03:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T07:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-investigates-unsolicited-offers-to-buy-maui-land\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T03:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T07:21:47","slug":"hawaii-investigates-unsolicited-offers-to-buy-maui-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-investigates-unsolicited-offers-to-buy-maui-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii probes unrequested bids for Maui property."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhawaii-investigates-unsolicited-offers-to-buy-maui-land%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2020024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Hawaii Investigates Unsolicited Offers to Buy \u2062Land After Maui Fires<\/h2>\n<p>Hawaii is \u2063currently investigating cases of survivors \u200cof the devastating Maui \u2064fires receiving \u2063unsolicited offers to buy their scorched land, according to Governor Josh Green. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-beats-china-at-high-cost-in-think-tanks-taiwan-war-game\/\" title=\"U.S. Beats China at High Cost in Think Tank\u2019s Taiwan War Game\">fires destroyed<\/a> over 2,200 buildings and left \u200dmany homeless or displaced in the town of Lahaina, Maui. Governor Green, a Democrat,\u2064 expressed concern over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-investigates-unsolicited-offers-to-buy-maui-land\/\" title=\"Hawaii probes unrequested bids for Maui property.\">opportunistic buyers taking advantage<\/a> of those who have\u2062 lost everything but their land. He emphasized the importance of keeping the land in the hands of local people and \u200callowing them to decide whether they want to rebuild.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/after-the-wildfires-hawaii-cracking-down-on-predatory-land-offers-on-maui-5485096\">After the Wildfires: \u2064Hawaii Cracking Down on Predatory \u200bLand Offers on Maui<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/1\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/biden-pledges-federal-support-for-hawaii-and-florida-calling-events-part-of-a-climate-crisis-5483839\">Biden Pledges Federal Support for Hawaii and Florida, Calling\u200d Events Part of a &#8216;Climate Crisis&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/30\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to this issue, \u200bGovernor Green signed an emergency order on August 19, making it a crime to \u200bmake unsolicited offers to purchase affected properties \u200din the three fire-impacted ZIP codes on Maui. The Hawaii Department of the Attorney General states that those charged with this crime \u2062may be able\u200c to defend themselves if they can prove that \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outrage-as-illegal-immigrants-get-housing-priority-over-bostons-longstanding-homeless-camp\/\" title=\"Anger as Boston's homeless camp overlooked for illegal immigrants' housing.\">property \u2064owner<\/a>\u200b was not impacted by the wildfire\u200d emergency.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, perpetrators could face up to one year in jail, a fine of up to $5,000, or both. Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez condemned this criminal activity, promising to \u2062investigate and hold those responsible accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-publishes-heavily-edited-probe-of-exonerated-general\/\" title=\"Mexico Publishes Heavily Edited Probe of Exonerated General\">attorney general&#8217;<\/a>s office advises residents who receive\u200c unsolicited offers to\u2063 purchase their land to not provide \u2064any personal information and to hang up the \u2063phone, then contact the police. Prior to the emergency order, the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs warned property \u2062owners to be cautious of unsolicited\u200d offers, as\u200c they may result in receiving less than the property&#8217;s\u200d actual value.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Green had already declared a statewide housing emergency before the fires, aiming to build 50,000 new homes \u200cin five years\u2064 to address Hawaii&#8217;s housing crisis. This proclamation suspended certain home-building regulations and granted local governments and developers more flexibility in the approval process. The governor&#8217;s deregulatory approach received \u2062praise for \u200daddressing \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trying-to-turn-texas-blue-nyt-opinion-piece-sells-leftists-on-texas-as-best-place-to-live\/\" title=\"Trying To Turn Texas Blue: NYT Opinion Piece Sells Leftists On Texas As Best Place To Live\">high housing prices<\/a> in Hawaii, \u200dalthough some expressed concerns\u2063 over the use of emergency power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii is probing unsolicited offers to purchase scorched land from survivors of Maui fires, according to Gov. Josh Green. The investigations follow the destructive fires in Lahaina, which ravaged around 2,170 acres, destroyed over 2,200 buildings, and displaced numerous individuals, leaving them homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":2020025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}