Guests Should be told the house is off the grid, which we did not find written in any of the promotional material about the property. It means the house comes with a longer set of rules than most. If you’re into off-grid living or into learning about it, you’ll love the house. If you’re not, you may have issues to deal with, such as lack of air conditioning. Or not being able to run the washer without turning on the generator. Running the generator is not a big deal, but with the generator running, the ceiling fan inside the house didn’t work to help provide cooling. That seems to be a temporary problem, which Andrea intends to fix; but for us it meant escaping the house while we did laundry by going down to the airport where we could get some ocean breeze because it was a stifling day when the sun came out after a heavy rain storm. Hawi is one of the sweetest little towns on earth, and Andrea, while we didn’t meet her, was pleasant to talk to by phone. We didn’t see anyone on the farm the whole two days we were there. Just us and the animals. Must be run by the menehunes (the Hawaiian leprechauns).