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October 17th, 2008 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 In Honolulu, initially, it is not typical to have an attorney involved in the structuring of a normal contract for the purchase of a property. This is due to the fact that members of the Honolulu Board of Realtors and Hawaii Association of ...
10/17/2008
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October 16th, 2008 categories: 1031 Exchanges, Buying Honolulu Real Estate The agent that represents the company that owns the building in which RE/MAX 808 Realty resides, recently told me that he did not expect office vacancy rates to rise. His thesis was that during the recent real estate boom...
10/16/2008
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October 14th, 2008 categories: Rants & Riffs, Reasons To Sell A recent article on the price of oil posted at Forbes.com was entitled “Oil’s Outlook Darkens”. At first blush, I thought it meant prices of oil were going to be rising again. But a reading of the article shows that further per barre...
10/15/2008
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October 14th, 2008 categories: Distressed Properties, Rants & Riffs Pacific Business News is reporting that California foreclosures have dropped “dramatically”. Given the State’s position as a leading indicator of things to come, this is great news! Honolulu seems to have a very low foreclosure...
10/14/2008
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October 14th, 2008 categories: Rants & Riffs Here I go again! Taking a political position in this PC world! After watching the presidential debates I’ve been wondering how Obama is going to be able to give 95% of we unwashed masses a “tax cut” (for full disclosure purposes I am probably in the ...
10/14/2008
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October 14th, 2008 categories: Distressed Properties If you haven’t bought a Honolulu house or condo via a short sale here are some things to remember and prepare for. 1. Be patient-the lender has to approve the sale and this could take 2 weeks (right!) to 2 months (more realistic) CLICK HERE TO...
10/14/2008
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October 13th, 2008 categories: Distressed Properties, Honolulu Real Estate 101 Are you considering buying a distressed property in Honolulu? If this is your first time entering this arena, it might be helpful understand some of the terms you will run into. What follows are a few of those terms ...
10/13/2008
October 10th, 2008 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 Hawaii Real Estate Reporter has an excellent post regarding the ratings and rankings of Hawaii’s public schools. Given that our private schools are so expensive ($17,000 a year plus or minus), if you can buy a home in a good public school d...
10/10/2008
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October 9th, 2008 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs A recent Pacific Business News article identified the zip code area of 96821 as Hawaii’s most affluent. If you live there…CONGRATULATIONS! CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE POST.
10/09/2008
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October 8th, 2008 categories: Rants & Riffs In this time of financial uncertainty, it would be good for us to remember that we are Americans! We are the people that put a man on the moon, won the Cold War and World War II, made 50 million Iraqis and Afghans free, brought the personal computer to...
10/08/2008