A thought or two about the trip to Maui. Disclaimer I work in finance so while this is MOO its rooted in what I do everyday.
A while back one of our Hawaii posters made some comments about banks that were on Kauai and how there were only a select few, I am assuming this is probably true for financial institutions. So here are my thoughts what if they had to sign a document in person with a bank or financial institution, we have some forms that can not be signed online and have to have a "wet signature" (not electronic real life signature) these are mostly involved with moving money to third parties, transferring accounts, and changing ownership of accounts. I have not done any research on what financial instituions/banks are on Maui vs. Kauai was wondering if any of our lovely Hawaii experts have any insider knowledge on this?
You could be on to something. I live in Hawaii, on the Big Island. One thing that is extremely difficult to get here is a Medallion Signature Guarantee (google it, too hard to explain. But it is sometimes required for transferring over $50,000 or so between financial institutions, especially investment companies. I would think that it would be easier to do on Maui than Kauai, BUT, Oahu would be a far better bet and closer. But your conjecture seems plausible to me.