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Now, my question is, Can you keep the house, without paying for it, if it was put on your land without your permission?

I would think both the developer and contractor are in the wrong in this case. The property owner seems like one of those Zen types, and she bought that lot for a reason. No idea how she was going to make it into a retreat without a place to live in, unless she was going to put up a yurt. However, what she had was bulldozed and will never be the same.

Have the developer and contractor remove the house and restore the property to how it was before with new plantings... That would take years for new growth.

Trade property? It will never be the peaceful, serene retreat she envisioned.

Sell the property with the house? Not sure about that with all the lawsuits.

As for permits, Hawaii Island along with all our islands can have oversights in permitting. Heck, in HNL we had some houses permitted, then the permit revoked when the neg=ighborhood discovered it was a monster house coming up.