Thursday, July 17, 2008

Molokai held hostage

July 11, 2008
The Maui News

Absentee landlords can be a major problem for the neighborhood and the county. That's an issue in the transient vacation rental controversy and it is the No. 1 issue on Molokai, where a foreign conglomerate apparently has decided hardball is the game to be played.

Molokai Properties Ltd., owned by Singapore-based conglomerate GuocoLeisure Ltd., has shut down the ranch, closed the golf course and is now threatening to turn off the water needed by 1,200 ...

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