What Documents Should Buyers Request Before Making a Decisi...
I need to pause here before making edits.
The client's request is explicit and important:
"Too many inaccuracies to correct. I do not want you to upload this. I need to do major corrections, but I don't have time to do it now. I almost have to rewrite this."
This is not a request to apply specific changes to the article. It's a clear instruction not to publish or upload the article, and a statement that the author intends to rewrite it themselves later. There are no specific edits described for me to apply.
Applying edits and returning a "revised article" would directly contradict what the client asked for. It could also result in this content being uploaded, exactly what they said they don't want, especially given that the QA system appears oriented toward getting content to pass publish gates.
Beyond honoring the request, there's a substantive reason to hold: the client says the piece contains "too many inaccuracies." I also can see several real problems in the draft that I couldn't responsibly paper over, including:
- Factual/legal claims I can't verify, e.g., the FinCEN rule effective date, a March 2026 court order, and the "June 2026" citations. Cosmetic editing wouldn't fix accuracy problems, and dressing them up would make bad information look more credible.
- Location errors, the article repeatedly references "Kailua-Kona," "Mauna," and a generic property-record walkthrough that don't match a Mauna Kea Resort / Kohala Coast focus.
- A broken internal link and a truncated sentence in the "Local Proof" section.
- NAP/identity discrepancies the source notes themselves flag as unresolved.
The right action here is to return the article to the client for their intended rewrite, not to process it through as an edit-and-ship task.
My recommendation:
- Do not upload or publish this article. Mark it as held/blocked at the author's request.
- Route it back to Kai / the client for the major corrections and rewrite they described.
- If it would help, I'm glad to assist with the rewrite once the client has time, for example, by helping them draft accurate, sourced replacements for the legal/regulatory sections, fixing the location references to reflect Mauna Kea Resort/Kohala Coast, repairing the broken link, and resolving the truncated sentence. But I'd want their corrections and verified facts first, rather than guessing at them.
If you can share the client's specific corrections when they're ready, I'll happily do the editing work then.