“It is disgusting. It’s a land grab,” #Lahaina resident Tiare Lawrence says of realtors contacting victims of the #Maui #wildfires and asking them to sell their properties. “We will do whatever it takes to protect Lahaina.”
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#Lahaina #Maui #Hawaii
Welcome to gentrification. It’s happening everywhere that they could remotely inflate housing prices to profit while displacing regular people.
Happened with NOLA folks after Katrina. Wouldn’t be surprised if wild fire was deliberately started for purpose of land grab.
I agree 100%, realtors who are approaching desperate people and trying to take advantage of them is a DISGRACE. TELL THEM TO BUG OFF, I AM BEING POLITE! It is just appalling ! MAUI NEEDS ALOT MORE HELP !
We need to look at PROGRESS for what it is.. the RICH get richer and REAL AMERICANS get pushed out. U tRUMPers need to wake up…
Why is it disgusting? You need help, and they want the ruined property!
Vultures
set fires to buy cheap !
set up go fund me for the world to donate
‘Build Back Better’=
DEWs and land grabs..bet Black Rock is behind the offers.
It should be made illegal to go in and grab land in the aftermath of a disaster !
Suspicious much
Don’t fall for that! Keep your land
make sure you report the the FUCKig news corectl you didn’t mention that they have a law you can’t developed land their UNLESS its a rebuild
Who is this person? Is she part of the group that is claiming Hawaii is actually theirs? Does she have proof that realtors are doing this? Do we only have her word for this? She has all of the “code words”; land grab, displaced enough, we need a seat at the table, rich cultural history, multigenerational families to come back home.
Burning down the villages of the natives is an Amercian tradition. Doing it for billion-dollar real estate corporations is 2023.
Don’t sell your land!!! Please don’t sell.
People with nothing at their most vulnerable state being enticed to sell for a new start, that is scary… I get why they’d be tempted to take offer after the nightmare they just experienced.
And actually All over Maui , families will move away and homes will be bought up. Our economy is taking a big hit by the sudden, rapid extreme reduction of tourism. High cost of living here and now many, many no income with tourists gone. The fire has many layers of impact. I’m very worried for how much Maui will change from this.
The plan was to burn it down for land grab and they succeeded America is corporate and corporate only.
Disgusting and these realtors are acting like piranhas trying to feed off of the misfortune of people. They should get their realtors license revoked 😡
The vultures always circle in tragedy
Oprah us buying it up.
Wooooooow
Maybe its time for Hawaii to secede from the nation after being treated like that by our government… Then Nationalize Hawaiian land and water and make it the peoples.. take it away from investors and corporations.
I’ve been saying this for three years now. Realtors are the scum of the earth. So much money for doing nothing. All you have to do is not have morals or shame. Taking from and taking advantage of grieving families. Shame.
For sure Zuckerberg’s realtor was calling
Realtors doing this are vultures. Capitalizing on the misfortune of others. God bless these people.
This always happens amist a disaster
Name the company’s
Dont SELL!!!!!!!!!!!
Been going on for years now there nice about it! I’m Sorry
Unbelievable how the Forum Reset are planning to take what many people own :. ” Own Nothing and be happy its their sentence to the World…
Two words, Oprah Winfrey.
Lahalna for its people. Out the sharks.
Laws should be IMMEDIATELY put in place to prevent this.
Sadly they won’t have a seat at the table
Maybe.the realtor makes a fire so that they can have that island..how come they interested right away rather than to help people…only my opinion
The demons are circling like wild hyenas.
Do not sell
The historic buildings should have been better protected! They cannot be replaced. Its ruined.
It is extremely disgusting and disturbing
It’s one thing if the fire happened years ago and those people never came back and rebuilt to offer them money for their land, but at this point in time, rescue and recover efforts are still happening.
It is, but what if they offered more than it was worth ?
Isn’t ophra involved?
This gives more validity to the conspiracy
Stay strong 💪
Funny part is. Noones moving into most of the new houses… So those realtors are losing money with every house that’s built.
A full investigation should be conducted here. This is an inside job.. they wanted the land .
Ready the whips and stones and be prepared to greet these vultures when they appear!
In 2 years all those residential homes will be under 1 development fund who just so happens to be connected to someone in DC.
Blackrock and Oprah Winfrey
Human greed has no limits!
I think it was those people who light the fire because I noticed later when there a bush fire no politics calls for help until it was an enough to sell
Realtors will sell it to the rich and no indigenous people will be allowed on it. It’s absolutely sociopathic. Typical of realtors!!
Don’t TRUST any of them,from the Governor on down!
real slime balls
keep them out
It’s not disgusting to everyone. Not everyone can afford to rebuild. Some people would rather take that money to start overt somewhere else.
The Democrats are just roaches and are behind this.
Disgusting. Simply disgusting. Those realstate people who are calling should be ashamed.
Capatalism at its finest!
This is shocking!!!
It has already started! 😮
White developers no doubt. Disappointed so many Whites on the news. As non White the islands were peaceful cultural lands. Royals were ignored since not European royals.
And now we know that that wasn’t just a conspiracy theory…….
Unfortunately Vanguard and BlackRock will deny Maui people to recover.
I wish they could expose the people who are trying to get the land .
If they wanna sell, they’ll sell.
I’m glad this came to light. Omg 😱. There are predators everywhere! 😡
HOW ARE THEY GETTING THEIR NUMBERS?.
CALL THEM OUT.
WITH THEIR NUMBERS.
Well..u cant afford it and money to move is a positive thing too…its about perspective. Renegotiate a extra large sum
Don’t some of these people want to sell?
NO SHAME. NO. EFFING. SHAME!!!!
My ✨husband✨ is Hawaiian and although I am not, this… this… I can’t control my anger.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Don’t give into the money! Don’t give in!
It’s a double edge sword as I’m sure a few people would take a couple of million and move on This happens at every disaster if the property is valuable
lol
I thought it was a generous donation on the investors part …
Would they rather it be worthless?
It is in bad taste. However, a simple no, fixes the problem. I’m sure some of the investors are considering these people may not have insurance or money to rebuild and are not being entirely callus. For some, such an offer could be mutually beneficial. There needs to be a fundraiser for people who are without a safety net so the pressure of having no home and money entices them to make a regrettable decision. Then, locals need to pass a law that prevents such offers so soon after a disaster.
When my mother died I hadn’t gotten out the car when my phone rang. It was a company asking me to donate her eyes. The hospital sold them the information
Sadly this isn’t new. Theft and exploitation of land at the expense of native populations has been occuring since Europeans first stepped foot in the Americas.
Like zuck didn’t set those fires to complete his land grab in hawaii
Marcus Crassus moves ,so sad ,some folks are really crazy,thats mean
It was Arson! 😮everyone thinks so- people are waking up & the matrix is about to start malfunctioning 😅
Dont sell no matter how good the cash would look right now!
I’m glad they know what’s important! What a crazy thing to do to people who just lost everything! Shame on you!!
Hummm wounder who set that fire 🤔🤔🤔
So sorry .. such shameful and nasty people 😫😫😫
Did Zuckerberg just buy a huge part of Hawaii?
Where’s Al Gore, where’s just stop oil, wheres extinction rebellion, wheres greta, how come they can’t fly to Maui wirh John Kerry on his wife’s jet with shovels to help with the fires and the climate catastrophe?
Back in the day , the community would hang people like that.
Don’t you dare sell to these scummy speculators.
Black rock
Shameful!!
Stay strong Lahaina..
Holy man people are ruthless. Rust let these people breathe first smh
Parasites is what they are, making money off people’s misfortunes.
Its pathetic.
the governor must be in on this somehow, otherwise why doesnt he call a immediate moritorium on investors or agents trying to steal land even before all the dead are found? wow! no judge would block that. and there should be massive FINES for any jerk still doing it…plus REQUIRE verifiable proof of any agency trying buy land on that island…and make the list PUBLIC…that will stop this scam dead in its tracts. its kinda a crime scene really…with many bodies not yet found…how is anyone being even allowed to try and buy anything in there yet???f
That’s effed up!! How heartless. 😠
Get to the Court house
OH MY GOODNESS THAT AWFUL PRAY FOR THE INJURED & THERE FAMILIES
MIMINDMV.! 22AUG23
That is truly disgusting
These landgrab calls are so sus. Did those developers start the fires?
This area was plan for developing everything to green …. the elite decided that to move everything and rebuild to green..
I’d call them vultures, but that would be an insult to the birds. I’ll go with ticks instead.