Hawaii Real Estate Blog: Maui Realtor, Gary Bland Century 21

Maluaka

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:32:43 -0600

This is a new condominium project in Makena, Maui Hawaii. The reservations are going quick on desired units. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about this new project. It will have thirteen 2, 3, 4 story residential buildings to serve Maui Finest. It will also have a club house and pool area for all of its guests.

The units will offer 2,661 to 3,495 sq. ft of living space along with Lanai area adding approx. 1,000 sq. ft.

Please feel free to contact me with questions about reservations and pricing for this spectacular new development.

Gary Bland R (S) 808-385-1265

Please visit my Maui MLS site to view other properties currently on the market http://www.garybland.com/

Kihei Kai Nani

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:44:00 -0600

Kihei Kai Nani*** located in South Maui. This complex very well built and offers great attractions to the wonderful white sandy beach Kamaole two across the street. There is shopping on both sides of this complex.

The famous wall is the place everyone sits to watch the sunsets each day. I have driven by so many times to stop and let the crowd cross the street.

Vacation Rental is allowed in this complex. You may need more information about this complex. Feel free to just ask.

You may look at curent listings on my website at http://www.garybland.com/

Gary Bland R (S) 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands (The Shops of Wailea)

Vacation Rental, Kihei Akahi, Maui Hawaii

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:28:34 -0600

Kihei Akahi**** located in South Kihei Maui Hawaii brings many to this wonderful vacation rental complex. It has two pools, tennis court and just minutes away from white sandy beaches. It is also close to shopping right next door. You will enjoy buying, staying, or enjoying the amenities that this complex has to offer.

It is constructed of concrete and steel sure to last many years ahead.

For more information on any Vacation Rental Property please email me with question and I will be sure to respond.

Please visit my website to view all properties here in Maui FREE www.garybland.com

Gary Bland R (S)

Century 21 All Islands ( Wailea)

Kamaole Sands, Kihei Maui

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:16:05 -0600

Kamaole Sands*** Kihei Maui Hawaii is one of the Best Vacation Rental Properties in South Maui. There is 440 units in this complex with pool ocean views and the beach is right across the street. You will enjoy tennis, swimming and all the other amenities. The construction is concrete and steel beams built to last. Please request any more information you may need.

Pleaase visit my web site http://www.garybland.com/

Gary Bland R (S) 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands Wailea

Living in Paradise is Great!!

Hale Kamaole, Maui Hawaii

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:01:28 -0600

Good Old Hale Kamaole**** This complex was built of wood construction and you can see the Cedar Shake roof which may need to be replaced here in the future. This complex is located in South Kihei Maui across from Kamaole Beach Three. These are very reasonable in price with location in mind. The building is across South Kihei Road and in just minutes you are at the white sandy beach.

For more details to this subject property visit my site www.garybland.com

Contact me direct 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands

Haleakala Shores

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:53:19 -0600

Haleakala Shores across from Kamaole Beach Three in South Kihei Maui Hawaii. This complex is right across the street and in just minutes to be walking along the beach. You will see every Sunday filled with local and visitors to enjoy this great swimming area with white sandy beach and three islands view along with great sunsets 360 days a year.

Please let me know if you need any more information about this complex.

Please feel free to view any or all Maui Property on my personal site and yes it is FREE.

Gary Bland R (S) 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands my site www.garybland.com

Polo Beach Club, Maui Hawaii

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:41:47 -0600

The Polo Beach Club is a direct oceanfront condo complex with a very private beach although it is public. It has three island views and many wonderful sunsets to enjoy! It is constructed of concrete and steel framing. It is built to last. You will be vary happy to own one of these because Mr. Clint Eastwood lives right down the street with in walking distance.

Please feel free to contact me regarding any information on condos here in Maui Hawaii. I have plenty to share.

Contact Gary Bland R (S) 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands

FREE Maui MLS Search www.garybland.com

Wailea Fairway Villas, Wailea Maui Hawaii

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:40:22 -0500

Wailea Fairway Villas in Maui Hawaii. This is entrance sign.
This what the exteriors look like.
This is the back Lanai area facing the ocean view with a pool near by.
The exterior is Stuco with tile roofs.
This is the walk way along the 16th Hole on the Wailea Blue Coarse.
This is the manager office on site.

The Wailea Fairway Villas have two basic units. There is a three bedroom and a two bedroom floorpaln. Please call should you need more info. The pricing low end will start at low $600,000 and up from there depending on building location.

You can view these properties on my website www.garybland.com

Gary Bland R (S) 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands

FREE MAUI MLS Search www.garybland.com

Are you Part or Full Time Real Estate Agent?

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:59:09 -0500

In our industry many of us take on part time position in our services. I am for one a Full Time Agent. I make my living putting in the long hours to get the income I need to live here in Hawaii. It is also a known fact the change we have seen in the market place. I am having to put in more hours and find new ways to survive. I am wondering how many part time agents we will loose with the change in market. The Part Time Agents must be thinking of getting out of this field. I do know that my costs to have my License has not gone down and costs are going up for marketing.

The easy days are over for many of us and looking to make it or break it. The market has slowed down in many areas in the United States from reading many blogs and listening to news media hipe.

This blog was posted due to reading another blog just yesterday when I had read about an Agent having to cut coupons from the Sunday paper. This will open up many eyes over the next few months.

I am wondering how many Part Time Agents will hang in there. Myself, I am learning to paddle faster.

Maui Halloween Party

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:43:25 -0500

What are you going to do on Halloween? It is a yearly event in Lahaina Maui Hawaii to close off the streets and party. People from all over the world come here to experience the event. The next day cars are parked along the roads leading out of town. Maui has over a million visitors per year and climbing. Wish you were here.

Maui Hawaii Map

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:30:50 -0500

Here is a quick reference Maui Map. This is a basic map and please notice that there are not to many roads to get lost. You can drive in any direction for no more than thirty minutes and hit water. I live in the Wailea area which has all the sandy beaches.

Please feel FREE to visit my website www.garybland.com You can search all the current listings from my site. The pictures when you click to view them they are very large in order to see the pictures. Try it for free.

Let me help you find the right property for you by contacting me:

Gary Bland R (S) call direct 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands (Wailea)

Wailea Real Estate Contact info Gary Bland R (S)

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:20:11 -0500

Please Visit my FREE Maui MLS Search www.garybland.com

I live here on the wonderful Island of Maui full time year round and enjoy meeting new visitors from around the world. I look forward to you enjoying my Free web site that will make it easy for you to learn about our Real Estate Market. Search any of the listings and view the pictures. My site will actually enlarge the pictures to see the property.

Gary Bland R (S) call direct 808-385-1265

Century 21 All Islands (Wailea)

Hawaii Maui Beach Kihei Area

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:05:36 -0500

Here is one of the beaches in Kihei that anyone could enjoy. This is one of the learning beaches for surfing (Beginners). This is a common spot to just relax and get to know what it is like living in Maui. A short walk to Clubs, shops and renting gear for scuba diving, renting surf boards and much more. This is ocean front property at its best.

Search Maui MLS for FREE www.garybland.com

Contact Gary Bland R (S)

Century 21 All Islands (Wailea)

808-385-1265

I want to Buy!

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:24:34 -0500

I get a call from a past Client who I had sent over information on various properties. Client waited almost two month to call me and Client is now ready to buy in Hawaii or Arizona. I had not figured out the two totally different areas yet? Client tells me that Client can buy a home in Arizona very cheap that their prices are dropping almost everyday. I mentioned to Client these are two areas not very similar in respect to location. Maui Hawaii offers vacation resort type of living and Arizona I can not comment on due to I do not live there.

Client then tells me had owned a very nice unit in Maui Hawaii a very well known complex. Client gives me the information and I start to research the property and everything checks out. I then contact the current new owner asking if he might have interest to sell the unit back to the prior owner/Client. The new owner had it on the market about one year prior and expressed he would sell when he finishes with Arbitration from the past Listing Agreement he had with another company that is coming up in Jan. 2008. Now--- I am starting to wonder. I looked up the prior listing and find out it was on the market for $525,000 which with the respect to the sales comps and sales was a bit higher than normal. It is a very good location with ocean views and nothing had Sold at this price yet.

Now lets move on to the end result. I call my Client and inform Client might be able to purchase the unit after the Arbitration is complete in Jan. 2008. I then mention the price it was on the market for. Client repeats the price in shock and then proceeds to tell me Client has $250,000 cash to offer. Please Note: Client bought unit in the beginning for $125,000 and sells for $250,000 and now a few years go by and Client thinks he should be able to purchase it back for what Client sold it to new owner. I can tell you that the comps from the past few month had been averaging $400,000 to $425,000 range. I feel sorry for Client that the information I had sent to Client in the months prior to Client call pretty much indicated what our market place had been doing.

Here are two things to THINK ABOUT: I have a Buyer and Seller. Client Buyer wants Client prior property. Seller will or possibly be able to sell after Arbitration. What would you do in this situation??? Be honest.

RePly Real Estate

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:43:50 -0500

I am posting again that I had a very BAD experience with this company. I am in the process of turning them into the Better Business Bureau for robbing me for just short while. I had mentioned in an earlier blog about this type of cruel activity going on. It always seems to get the nice guy! The so called leads are FAKE and it really disappointed me when I told them how unhappy I was. They just wanted to give me more leads and keep my money. I had talked to over fifteen people in this company and they still not have a clue. I had watched others go right out of business and they will find out you can not treat good people like this. Please take note this is a warning how they make you life a living h_ll. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.

Smoke-Smokers-Smoking

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:28:08 -0500

I am wondering how many homes you have visited and the owner is an avid smoker. I know many people are against smoking in public and in restaurants and so on. Do you think we should start asking the MLS boards to add this as a feature to the listings to save your non-smoking client from walking in and then right out?

It is also a concern in a condominium project. Lets just say the neighbor is smoking in their own unit and the smoke emits from the unit into a non-smoking unit. What do you think or have any ideas of what would be fair?? I think this is going to be the next disclosure item in the future.

Service, Service, Service

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:24:53 -0500

Service applies itself to personal satisfaction. I know everyone of us have had easy deals and others the roof falls in on you. It is very important to supply each client with the best service as you know. Part of your service should include: A simple smile or greeting, making sure you have the ability to listen, knowing what you are talking about, being able to follow sugestions, make it easy and convenient for the client schedule, ask the right questions, find what they are really looking for, answer any question they may ask and not to be afraid not knowing the answer.

I use all of these items with each and everyone of my clients. The service I can provide is the question I need to answer each time. If I follow this simple format. It gets the job done and I am proud to of provided SERVICE.

Listing A Friends Property

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:17:43 -0500

I actually Sold one of my friends a home a few years back. They had wanted me to list the home about two month ago and I encouraged them to try to keep making payments and rent the extra room they had in a separate part of the house with its own entry and full living quarters. The main reason for the advise was to have them make it through the down cycle of Real Estate.

I got the call again today! They ask me what they really could get in dollar amount. I mentioned to them a price and then she continued to say she needed a higher amount by about $50,000. Then she began to say she had a card in her door stating that this agent had a buyer for the home. I only again asked her to rent another room for the extra income and keep the home. I knew this agent from my experience in this area. He uses this type of approach to get the listings.

It was hard to tell her to list with him then and when this real buyer does not surface what might she do? My friend already has two rental incomes from this property with very little overhead. She will never be able to replace this type of home again. She owes very little on the original purchase price along with a small second mortgage. My heart said to let it go and my business side thinks to have the listing! My heart is bigger.

Localism Pictures

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:55:15 -0500

I will need some help finding out how to input more pictures to Localism. I have many pictures of Hawaii that I would enjoy showing on the site. I have been trying to remember all the simple things when I joined AR. Please apply some kindness so that I can put more pictures on the web.

Reading other Blog's

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:46:43 -0500

I have been touring many of the Blog's and viewing different styles and input from many of us. I am trying to put diiferent new things in my Blog each time. I look and have wondered how some of these things work.

I have a new question. I log on to some of the Blog's and see a visitor log with me showing up as a square grey box smiley. How do I get my picture to show up in these visitors log with my picture?? Help

Wonder Why?

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:54:05 -0500

I have read plenty of bloggs lately and wonder why AR has these page verifications and the funny names they come up with. You answer the blog and go down to the bottom and I have many times looked at the word and type it so wrong. mangosten, palopalo, frutberry, calao-calao, I am close. I like when typing to hit each key and go on. They really tax the brain by misspeeling some words. I then do it in my blog??? I guess when I get to the fify thouand poins it wil not mater.

Deal or No Deal??????

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:10:44 -0500

I love watching everyone slam down the clear little box and go for it. I might want to make one and try it on my next client and see how they would act?? I will have all the pretty girls in our office stand there with contracts with differnt prices on them. I will have my briefcase with the picture of the homes we looked at during the day and see if this will help get another one SOLD.

Whale Watching to Begin

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:24:00 -0500

I am getting very excited about the humpback whales coming to our waters. The season is approaching when they come down from Alaska and approx. 1600 of them show up. I always tease my clients while showing them property during a showing if we can see the ocean. I act like I am pushing a button on a remote while one just by chance jumps out of the water. They always ask me "How did you do that?" It is one of the best values we have to offer here in Maui. I also do scuba diving and you can only imagine.

Active Rain

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:35:20 -0500

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Eight Days A Week

Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:27:38 -0500

I always like listening to the old Beatles song. I always apply myself with this Clause. I am always working on deals helping clients and trying to let my family know that I am there for them also. The rewards are in fact simple. I get something back from my efforts. I am making money and selling homes for my professional career. I give out eight days worth of effort in the short week we all watch go by so quickly.