Champ says roadworks in front of his unsold mansion should take two weeks not two years!
Regular readers will know the epic tale of Kelly Slater’s sprawling beachfront mansion at Laniakea on Oahu’s North Shore that has languished unsold for most of the year, even after the surfing great dropped the price by a staggering $3.5 million.
The eleven-time world champion who recently came out of retirement to compete in an exhibition event in France last month bought the six-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom house for a little under eight mill in 2017 and, earlier this year, perhaps to buy his unnamed son pretty things, put it on the market for twenty mill.
Despite the sprawling beachfront compound’s myriad delights, its Balinese theme a very good selling point for those with a taste for the exotic east and the joys of Hinduism, the joint has failed to generate any serious interest hence the wild 17.5% discount.
Now, in a wild screed posted to Instagram, Kelly Slater has slammed Hawaiian authorities for their bungling surrounding the realignment of the Laniakea Highway.
If you live in these parts you’ll know it ain’t much fun driving the strip on weekends, or during events, and that little cord of bitumen can be your home for hours.
Real simple: the parking lot at Laniakea is going to be shifted to the ocean side of the road thereby ending the traffic jams caused by people crossing the road and stopping cars for flying on through.
According to Kelly Slater the work is going to take up to two years, construction happening from morning to mid-afternoon Monday to Friday, and some Saturdays.
But, says the Champ, “This project if done privately could take one to two weeks and be done at night.”
Crazy if true!
Anyone who relocates parking lots for a living wanna chime in here?
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Kelly Slater, now reduced to being Florida Man.
You’re not that dickhead who was on here previously banging on about hard core slab hunters are you?
Road work is not the reason why he can’t sell his house. Everyone who lives in Hawaii knows that North shore has an erosion problem. You’ll be an idiot right now to buy a place right next to the ocean.
At least the government is trying to make the area safer. Private company requires more money. If he lived in Hawaii full time he would know that most of the money went to the rail that no body uses.
2 years will make it the fastest project ever in Hawaii. It has been studied and planned for over 15 years. The concrete bridge on the south entrance to Wahiawa took over 4 years to construct, longer than it took to build the Golden Gate bridge! Our 5 billion dollar rail is now 12 billion and is 10 years behind schedule.
Andy was better
you must be new here…
kelly is a douche…
Avatar name checks.
Surely its that “tropical skank Hunter” with a new name?
Translation: Workers get dictated the conditions and the pay by their employer.
Short seale. Retires in Florida, pays less taxes. Prevails over Sebastian Inlet till death with redneck brothers where it all began….
You don’t sound like an epidemiologist.
ROADWORKS…
You don’t have to put on the redLIGHT…
He’s not wrong on this one! Democrat run Hawaii is in no hurry to make things better for the folks out there on the North Shore! Every thing is more important than the pot holes and the traffic jams! The sitting and counting department is in no hurry to get anything done. Job security is more important than safety no matter what the governor says! 😎
The man who made millions of dollars off the popularization of surfing and lionization of the north shore: https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Karen Slater wants to talk to the manager.
The price of paradise…stop complaining! Plus, according to Oahu historical housing data the average increase in price from 2017 is 40% putting a realistic value of his house at $11.2 million NOT anywhere near the $20 million he wants…seriously, stick to surfing where you’re beyond AMAZING
I didn’t realize the “price of paradise” included gross government malfeasance. Having lived through the recent repaving of Kam Hwy along the north shore, things don’t move so fast over here. And it ain’t be accident.
Hopefully they approve a monk seal and turtle sanctuary in Slater’s back yard and he has to bulldoze his house.
I dabble in parking lot relocation on weekends and nights. Minimum 3 weeks. He’s completely wrong.
Name checks out.
AI has now breeched the comment section, god help us
Seems like AI wrote the article.
Totally agree with Kelly. With Abu Dhabi slave labor this could be done in a week.
lol (sadly)