Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the whales that gather offshore. She travels there about three times a year and rents out her unit for short periods when she's not in Hawaii. 'Maui was my dream place,' she said in a phone interview from her home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
So the question is, what is most important?' Bissen said at a news conference last month. 'My priority is housing our local residents - especially now.'Humiston, president of the Hawaii Rental By Owner Awareness Association, which opposes the bill, won't sell her one-bedroom, oceanfront condo that she bought two decades ago if the bill became law. She also doesn't plan to rent it long-term.'It would take my ability to use my property.