With her salt-and-
The peppers are neatly in the bun, and Edith Kawaiulailiahi looks troublesome to the maker in March.
Her warm eyes and gentle face made her a typical grandmother of Hawaii.
But today, she is at the center of the real estate industry in Hawaii, which disrupts real estate sales and could cost her the house she was born in.
According to the person you asked, March was either a victim of a scam or a brave man trying to correct historical mistakes.
"I am only pursuing truth, honest truth," said March, who has lived in a humble house under the foot of the Diamond Head for 60 years and raised six children.
"I have to do it for my children, grandchildren and future generations.
"March is a customer of the perfect ownership company.
, The partnership established by Donald Lewis and David Keanu Sai in December 1995 challenged the ownership of the plot by going back to the time of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
While the details of each case vary, the company always concludes that because of the U. S. -
The monarchy that supported the overthrow of Hawaii in 1893 violated international treaties, and since then any government or land ownership has been void.
The company has signed more than 230 customers and completed more than 120 survey reports.
"There are records in the National Transportation Bureau.
Here's the friction.
Once publicly documented, these reports create "clouds" on ownership, disrupting potential sales, as ownership insurers are reluctant to deal with disputed property.
"We believe these files are false, but we also know that it takes money and time to delete them on public records," John Jubinsky said . ", General legal counsel for ownership guarantee in Hawaii
It is the largest ownership company in the state.
"We will not go in and say we will bear the cost.
"Jubinsky sees the work of the perfect title as a scam" and lobbied the legislature to fight it along with the state attorney general.
Lawmakers are now considering a bill to make it easier to remove trivial claims of ownership from the transport authority and impose severe penalties on those responsible.
The perfect Title report also prompted some people, such as March, to stop paying mortgages and put their houses online.
The homeowners argued that insurance companies that had previously guaranteed ownership should recover the money.
In March, when she was mortgaged at home, she received ownership insurance in 1993.
After getting a perfect title report last year, she filed a claim with the insurance company and stopped paying the mortgage.
However, the Chicago title company denied that the report of the perfect title company was "opinion" and denied the claim.
Last month, after many defaults, the lender in March foreclosed her six
Bedroom homes are sold at auction.
If the sale is confirmed in court next month, Mars will be forced to leave.
Although it was said in March that she was not an activist, her behavior coincided with self-promotion
The determination of native Hawaii.
In recent years, the chorus has become louder and louder, attracting the attention of officials. In 1993, the U. S.
The government formally apologizes for the role it played in the coup a century ago, acknowledging that the Hawaiian "have never directly given up their sovereignty as a nation or national land ".
Lewis treated his mission with the enthusiasm of a priest.
At a free seminar across the state, the charismatic Hawaiian used the century-
The old handwritten document and a projector describe the evolution of Hawaiian property rights since King Kamehameha III first allowed private ownership in 1848.
At the end of his presentation, some listeners were ready to sign up for the title search for $1,500.
Despite the enthusiasm of the company and its customers, the court did not purchase the perfect title analysis.
Last month, a state circuit judge ruled that the perfect title report to delay the sale of the property on the Big Island was an invalid lien and ordered the partnership to pay $5,000 in damages.
"No matter how admirable its goal is," said Arnold Lumm, a lawyer at Hawaii's local law firm.
"The perfect title tries to hold the law in its own hands and rewrite history, which is a man-made injury to Hawaii.