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Show Transcript:
well aloha kakahiak everybody today is
october 29 2020 2021 uh and this is the
hawaii real estate this is the living
and man that i brought that i botched
that one up big time this is this is the
aloha friday hawaii real estate show i’m
peter kane i’m glad you’re here i am
here we are you are part of the
you’re part of the we can screw up
section of the show because it hasn’t
officially started it’s not gonna start
until nine o’clock and i am living up to
that name and screwing up royally but i
am here with my friends dylan nonaka
from the big island scott startsman from
oahu and heidi dahlinger who is hailing
us from maui uh we’re gonna do our
normal our normal wake up wake up test
the microphone see how the net
connection is working why don’t we start
with scott this time scott what’s uh
give us a mic check give us an oahu
check how’s it going there buddy good
man in the middle um yeah things are
great this morning i uh actually was
able to get up and do a work full-blown
workout and stuff so i got the blood
pumping and sweating i feel good and now
i think i’ve matched my you gotta match
my shirt to my coffee cup it’s an
all-fall theme today it’s all orange and
everything
so what was so what was the workout
where what what was the workout a jog or
a swim or or what uh actually i was
it was more of a recovery time i had a i
had a pretty intense workout yesterday
so i ended up doing like squatch squats
push-ups bodyweight stuff and then i
sprinted up the hill a couple of times
it was a couple of rounds of that just
to get the lungs burning
god god bless you god bless you man
heidi how’s it going over there what’s
what’s the coffee today
well my workout this morning was walking
about a block to the coffee shop
that’s the right workout
um and this is one of my go-to favorites
it’s the red cotto eye and it’s
it’s just amazing
um but my personal news to share is i
just got engaged last weekend oh
hey
congratulations congratulations good for
you i’m so happy to hear that heidi
[Music]
let’s see the ring where’s the ring
well
it’s getting sized okay it’s getting
exciting all right i want to see
the ring it was really amazing we hiked
to the top of this waterfall at
makamakaole
and he proposed at the top of the
waterfall so it was oh man
oh man that’s so romantic i’m so happy
for you heidi i am so happy for you
that’s a one that’s wonderful news
dylan let’s give us give us the aloha
shirt update what’s going on over there
man i gotta got a sig zane on this
morning barely made it in time when i
first came on i still had a t-shirt on
so i had to go run and grab it from
uh the washroom right where i
ironed it but um
yeah no no workout this morning friday
is a busy day that starts at 5am with a
call with a bunch of east coast people
and then i had another one at seven and
another one at eight which i left early
and then now this is the the nine
o’clock call so
been a long day so far
there you go well that’s that’s the
right way that’s the right this is the
right way to do it man the thing i look
forward to most so happy to be here yeah
absolutely and oh hey everyone the the
the congrats are all coming in of course
first one from auntie joyce congrats
heidi awesome congratulations yes thank
you thank you auntie joyce and uh also
uh congratulating uh heidi and 13 you
got 13 days to go man you must be really
homesick i can imagine uh auntie joyce
that now you’ve had your
you’ve had your i’m i’ve been living in
hawaii and now i kind of spent a lot of
time on the mainland experience
everybody gets to have that every so
often right you kind of spend years over
here and then you go back and good
morning all val is is with us good
morning valerie glad to have you here
with us thanks for thanks for being a
part of what what’s going on
yeah a uh a dylan i think that um
well you know my since we’re talking
about workouts and non-workouts my my
workout my working out is on wednesday
typically if i can wednesday and
saturday makapuu beach get up in the
morning get there ride just after
sunrise you know get on there and
wednesdays are great because there’s no
one there at all i’m typically the only
person on the beach there’s nothing
nothing is more fun
than being on the beach by yourself in
the water being the only guy in it’s
like amazing and of course makapuu is
amazing and then on saturday we go hey
tom welcome tom tom is back with us and
uh and uh
judy’s back too judy welcome back good
to see you um great glad to have you be
a part of it all right it’s nine o’clock
let’s let’s let it let us rock and roll
and oh who else is coming number jeremy
jeremy’s back jeremy welcome back jeremy
give us an update buddy uh you in are
you in maui now did you get your did you
get your uh
uh appraiser appraiser deal going on oh
all the all the the hellos are all
coming in the the ohana is piling in so
neil is back with us aloha neil great to
see you back here from um from silicon
valley and and kelly kelly is back with
us kelly is my
kelly has you
kelly has toyed this um kelly has coined
this amazing term she’s bi-coastal and
by coastal means that she they live on
the west coast and also in hawaii which
is really cool it’s the coolest way i’ve
ever heard that by coastal and jason i
have missed the last couple of weeks but
jason we are glad to have you back buddy
uh welcome we will always we’re always
going to be here and uh
ask you all to join us all right let’s
get started it’s nine o’clock let’s do
some quick uh i got some quick news
updates uh heather’s back with us
welcome back heather good to see you
let’s get some quick news going on and
um
let’s uh let’s
here we go let’s kind of get this thing
going over okay so a couple things going
on it looks like it it it looks like
things are loosening up on the covet
front uh they it it looks like things
are kind of loosen up now we’ve got um
for example the mayor uh mayor
blangiardi said that uh that they can
hold outdoor and indoor seating events
at a hundred percent capacity that’s
never happened before so big time uh
you’ll still need to have mass and proof
of covid19 vaccination etc but at least
you’ll be able to do it can’t have food
yet just water only but it’s coming um
and uh looks like the bars are opening
up a little bit 50 capacity till and
they’ll be up until 2 a.m so that’s
that’s kind of cool that’s kind of
happening so uh so then no so now we got
the uh the next up is uh no masks it’s
possible it’s possible there’s again
this whole loosening up thing is kind of
happening uh the governor is saying that
if they’re if the case counts uh drop
below a hundred stay and drop below a
hundred they may list
they may lift the mask mandates so
that’s kind of cool um
and there’s gonna there’s some talk that
the that the federal regulations over uh
flights are going to override hawaii’s
uh uh safe travels applications so
there’s gonna be there’s change is in
the air folks and you see how those two
you zoom in a little bit you can see
those two graphs here the the upper
graph is the number of cases we’re way
down back again to where we were kind of
uh pre-delta spike levels and the the
fatalities have also dropped they’re
coming to near zero so all in all good
news looks like things are kind of
moving along
so maui tax relief i want to hear what
might be uh maybe heidi might have some
to kind of share about this but i found
there was a uh looks like there’s gonna
be some interesting an engine
development which they’re talking about
having a tax break for maui landowners
if you’ve lived in the property uh let’s
see three gen uh three generations back
or more than 81 years so interesting
this this development is kind of
favoring uh residents favoring long-term
residents that’s going to be an
interesting development i wonder where
that’s going to go now if you and if
you’ve been then if you’ve been three
generations back or 81 years apparently
your taxes are like next to zero 350 a
year
so um let’s see i’ve been here for 40
years i’ve got 40 years to go and i i
too will qualify for it for that and
finally lava buy out so dil i want to
hear what dylan thinks about this one
there’s there’s apparently there is a
they’re moving into where if you had a
home that was destroyed by lava uh if
you were an owner occupant you could
have earlier uh gotten a uh they would
sort of buy out your your home but now
this is apparently going to uh people
that have a secondary residence if you
have a secondary residence on the big
island and it was wiped out destroyed uh
by the 2018 kilauea eruption apparently
you can get a um they will buy back your
property so that’s kind of interesting
that’s all i got for you for this week
it wasn’t it actually was i and i had to
scrounge to pick up these stories we’re
all talking about it was it was a quiet
week but anyway that’s that let’s kind
of go around the table over here uh
let’s let’s go let’s go clockwise to me
so uh dylan then scott then then and
heidi uh dylan anything else have you
heard about that you must know about the
lava bio [ __ ] about that or anything
else i don’t i’m gonna look into that
now that’s news to me okay there you go
to that for sure yeah
yeah
is there anything else there’s my phone
is there anything else going on
it’s been it’s been pretty quiet you
know town’s pretty quiet there’s not
that many visitors here right now that’s
gonna here that’s gonna pick up and i
think that was mainly a result of iron
man getting cancelled right normally
people avoid kona and
uh because everything is booked for iron
man and then iron man got cancelled and
then
nobody showed up and nobody had plans to
come so that’ll ramp up here as we get
into november but it’s been it’s been
nice it’s been it’s been dry that’s
that’s the that’s the big news is that
after
a very wet year we’ve had a like a week
or two of no rain which is odd
but also
awesome awesome awesome scott what’s
going on over there
yeah i think it’s quiet here on oahu too
i mean the
you know since ige said stop coming here
it feels a lot more quiet and it’s been
much much easier getting into
restaurants setting up restaurant
reservations i mean it went out twice
this past weekend and i was able to get
reservations either the same day or the
day before we went into the restaurant
and there was like four other people in
in one of them
so it’s much easier uh being able to go
out part of that vaccination card having
to show that
is probably a little bit of a challenge
for people but even when i was on the
big island last two weeks ago
the the two times i had gone over
earlier this year i couldn’t get into a
single restaurant weeks in advance along
that coastline and when i went over this
last time i was able to get into every
restaurant that i wanted and when we
went into some there was maybe four or
five people in those restaurants so it’s
just kind of quiet and i’m kind of
interested to see once we loosen up okay
are we gonna have this ebb and flow that
keeps happening you know you have some
spikes and whatnot okay let’s go get
restrictive again and and i’m kind of
interested to see how things go not only
just from tourism and then
from just the the day-to-day
ease of going in and out and whatnot you
know going to restaurants and stuff
can you hear us peter
i think we lost peter
we got to carry on heidi what’s what’s
uh what’s what’s going on in molly
uh well
not too much big news on maui
i mean just commenting on the tax rates
property taxes in general the policies
been to keep them low for full-time
residents and owner occupants and
now there’s an additional tax exemption
for people that are doing long-term
rentals so they want to tax the
short-term rentals and timeshare the
very most
um so that’s always been the policy and
they’re always adjusting it a little bit
but compared to a lot of places on the
mainland if you’re going to live full
time on maui your property taxes are
going to be
pretty low compared to a lot of places
um
there is kind of a
oh hi peter
keep keep going keep going
we don’t need you you’re fired that’s it
i’m gonna keep talking but keep talking
heidi keep talking um so i mean i guess
one of the kind of there is a
controversial bill that’s being
introduced and this
would impact owners of short-term
vacation rental properties tvrs or
transient vacation rentals
um the proposal
is for short-term rental properties in
apartment zone areas which
there are a ton of those on maui and
they’ve been legally operating as
vacation rentals for
i mean
since these properties were built 30 40
years ago
the proposal is so this is not passed i
don’t know if it will pass
but
if
you sell a vacation rental property the
new owner can no longer use it for
vacation rental it would have to be
full-time owner or a long-term rental
so that would be
if this does pass it would be quite
significant so
it’s just a proposal at this point but
there always seems to be um
the trend is you know to try to limit
short-term rentals
provide more affordable housing and that
it’s just all political and figuring out
you know what’s the best way to do that
so i won’t get into it further but
well one thing universal it always ends
up being a mess that’s the that’s the
that’s the unfortunate part it always
ends up kind of uh all kinds of uh
strange uh conflicting
um conflicting interests and uh
god only knows who’s gonna win and even
when there’s a there’s a decision made
that’s they don’t re they don’t enforce
it at least that’s been the experience
here on oahu
anyway who’s uh sorry about that we we
had a very inconvenient power outage so
all of a sudden i’m talking and bam
power goes out so uh thankfully we
recovered and the power is back again so
i apologize who’s uh who’s up who what
did i miss who what don’t tell me what i
missed but who’s up next we got it all
covered peter we went the circle already
i think you’re next all right all right
awesome okay great well then in that
case um
we did did we do the uh did we do the
real hold on a second did we do the real
estate update uh hold on a quick second
let me get my way
okay great at excellent excellent okay
great so why don’t we do this let’s pop
this guy up over here all right so are
we ready for a wheel uh i we did the
little news and now we’re we’re gonna do
a real estate market update is that kind
of where we’re at
um if that’s where we’re at why don’t we
why don’t we do that let’s go right
online dylan scott and then heidi give
us the real estate what’s what’s going
on
what’s with the market that’s not crazy
where the market’s nuts and uh it’s it’s
gone bananas what what else give me
something else dylan well not
it’s kind of status quo from the last
couple of shows that we’ve had so we
talked about the inventory
falling all year and then hitting a
bottom in july and then since august
september and then now october it’s
pretty it bumped back up so it was below
400 homes on the market for the whole
island it’s up about 420 so it went up a
little bit but it’s not continuing to
climb the last couple of weeks and and a
month has been pretty stable so although
there was a little increase we’re not
seeing any kind of like flood of new
listings coming on the market and but we
are seeing the lower
price range
properties
being overpriced and then now they’re
not selling so for example in the kona
market there’s hardly anything there’s
seven houses under 650 000 all of them
are not in the greatest shape
but they’ve all been on the market plus
three plus weeks so some of them 60 days
a lot longer so the frenzy of buying
like everything cheap has kind of ended
and i think we’ve kind of crossed that
threshold where the prices have been
driven up so far that buyers are not
pulling back and not not buying and so
we’re seeing a little bit of a price
correction i think definitely on the
lower end a lot of the higher end stuff
the 1.2 1.3 million stuff is still
selling pretty quickly but the lower end
stuff has has kind of hit up price
ceiling
okay so there’s a little bit of a good
news there is there we are kind of
finding the the upper and the uh
are we finding the bottom or the upper
end but we’re like you said we’re
finding some price resistance so it you
know at least for that for that one that
lower range there is something there is
a there there there is a i don’t know if
they call it a bottom or a top but
there’s something there people are not
paying 700 000 for fixer-uppers at the
moment they’re not paying 700 000 for a
300 000 property right correct
right right right right uh so we we we
had a quick uh congrats that came in
from tom this is tom to heidi so uh tom
says congratulations heidi had to rewind
to hear the news yeah so everyone who
just joined us uh if you haven’t seen
this yet heidi uh our our very own heidi
got engaged
and uh was uh she received her proposal
at the top of a waterfall so that’s
pretty pretty damn cool pretty damn cool
heidi scott what’s uh what’s up on uh
what’s going on with oahu’s market
uh you’re muted
yeah i just got a notification this
morning of a major fixer and this thing
was a beaut it looked like it was about
to fall down in fact it says don’t go on
the property due to safety reasons and
it was listed at 775 000 so
the fixer over here is alive and well at
775 000. um
no it’s it’s interesting man i i i keep
doing these deep dives looking for
little nuggets here and there and
literally every neighborhood across the
board is uh 18 to 25
price appreciation
for single-family homes
this year to last year
the single-family home price for the
last two months has been
the median price has been a million
fifty and on condos we’re at 478 000 for
a median condo price
days on market is
is literally 11 days for condos and nine
days for single family homes they’re not
staying on the market and and to what
dylan was saying about the number of
listings there we have 440
active listings right now and so i went
back last night i said you know what i’m
curious to see what that 2005 to 2007
portion looked like how many active
homes were on i went back to all the
stats that i have and the bottom month
the lowest month of active homes at that
time was 811. almost double what we have
now so just amazing how little inventory
we have on the market right now here
here on oahu and we brought up
and this is neighborhood every
neighborhood is the same kahala is up 35
for median home price we brought one on
the market for 3.5 million and in that
first week we had six offers
i’m seeing it across the board condos 40
percent of condos are selling above the
list price
and 67 percent of single-family homes
are selling above the list price and
then if you look at ewa beach 80 percent
of homes are selling above the list
price so nothing’s changed um i do kind
of feel like we’ve had a little bit of
fatigue
and we’re coming into the holiday period
i do expect a little bit of a slowdown
both on listings coming on and just kind
of buyer activity uh but it’s
the the the numbers haven’t changed so i
don’t i don’t anticipate the
fundamentals changing right now
i saw a uh thanks go ahead but the one
thing to keep an eye on interest rates
have bumped up a little bit they bumped
up about half a percent so
that’s the key factor for me for for
decelerating this thing is slowing down
interest rates going up is going to slow
this thing down
quicker than anything else well interest
rates are indirectly a price increase
right indirectly they’re a price
increase on the market i saw an
interesting graph i wish i should have
thought about it to bring it with me but
i’m sure that you know this but i saw
this very interesting graph that you
know since since covid uh
single-family homes on oahu have taken a
big leap in prices a huge leap in prices
uh whereas condos actually took a dip
initially which i’m sure was reflected
because of the waikiki condos and now
they’ve kind of returned back and
they’re sort of on their curve they’ve
increased well but it was a huge jump in
single-family homes
yeah and if you look back at that 2005
to 2007 i was actually shocked the
months of inventory remaining for single
family homes is at 1.2 right now
in 2005 to 2008 it was actually two
point like 2.4 we’re lower in inventory
and single-family homes now and condos
was actually their month’s inventory
remaining during that 2005 time period
was much lower than it is now so it’s
almost reversed condos were selling um
more in that 2005 range whereas now
single-family homes and that’s natural
you know people wanting to get out of
condos they want to have some yard if
you’re going to be staying at home that
that was that whole cove and component
that played into that i think that kovac
component’s been huge for a variety of
reasons and not the least of which is uh
if you’re going to be working from home
you need that extra bedroom etc etc so
the three-bedroom home all that kind of
stuff uh had a congrats have come in
from from jason to heidi yup absolutely
uh thanks jason i’m sure that heidi
really appreciated heidi heidi the the
newly engaged uh the newly engaged uh
got proposed on a waterfall top that
right give us the update for maui heidi
what’s going on with maui’s market
well
the boots on the ground update is it is
still a
pretty intense market um with a lot of
buyer demand don’t see that slowing down
anytime
immediately
um i’ll just share a couple of stats so
you can compare them to what scott
reported on oahu
the
year to date median sales price on maui
for a single family home is
999 000 so just under a million
and for condos it’s 645 thousand
675 which is up um
14.3 percent last year and that’s across
all properties on maui if you get into
certain neighborhoods um some have had a
lot more appreciation
compared to
2020 the inventory on the markets
i was looking it’s actually been pretty
stable but
things are just selling so much faster
in 2021
um there was a statistic out
last month that condominiums going under
contract have increased 118
i mean that’s just a huge increase but
i mean we’re also comparing this to last
year when the island was shut down for a
large part of the year so that really
slowed down the condominium market
last year um and i was kind of
looking at a graph just of historical
um
pendings and sales over the past 10
years and the biggest spike it looked
like was um in the spring like
march april may
this year and then it’s gone down a
little bit but it’s still
above
anywhere else it’s been for the last 10
years so it’s just
kind of crazy um in
2018 2019 i mean it was just a little
slower market you’d have buyers that
were
i wonder what’s going to happen in the
future i wonder what’s going to happen
to the market and then the worst
possible thing happened the world
shutdown covet global pandemic and now
everyone’s like go go go so
that’s just where we are yeah it really
is a it really is a a wild moment in uh
in in history for sure i mean you you
name it right the the the the supply
chain now we’re all kind of freaking out
about and i i know it is i know it is a
sign of the coming apocalypse when i go
into costco and i can’t get kalamata
olives the way i used to if they’re out
of kalamata olives um that means that
the the end is the end is near i know
that for a fact i think it says that
somewhere in the bible if if kalamata
olives are not in costco it is a it is a
sign of one of the one of the coming
apocalypse signs hey we got a we got a
comment from mary jean welcome back mary
jane good to see you again uh aloha from
chile illinois uh american west give us
an update what’s the temperature uh
right now in illinois i want to know all
right let’s uh let’s move on everybody
um
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here to our topic for today so i got
this this was a really this was a good
one and i think i’m looking forward to a
good discussion for everybody so this
came in from
and and and is asking
is it easier for a single retiree to get
socially established on oahu or on maui
i frequently travel to both so i think
that the the topic that i wanted to kind
of have with you all to the discussion
between us is how does uh whether you’re
retiree or whether you’re single uh or
if you’re coming with a family uh either
way uh what are some good ways to get uh
socially established what would you say
uh to people that are considering let’s
let’s take ann as an example but let’s
have a conversation about you know what
do you think what’s your advice on
getting socially connected because it’s
super important you don’t want to come
here and be by yourself if you’re by
yourself it’s only a matter of time
before you’re going to go back how do
you get socially connected what are some
best practices let’s go let’s go
clockwise again dylan scott and then
heidi dylan uh what would you say to uh
to ann uh who wants to get connected
even if it’s she’s anne’s asking for
oahu or mali but that doesn’t matter big
on it it’s irrelevant it’s hawaii
yeah it’s easy just be nice and and and
meet people um you know that’s one thing
that people are just shocked about the
whole the hawaii culture where you’re
just going to get invited to stuff
people will embrace you make you part of
their family you know i was just talking
to so what would you do so what would
you do to go get in invited to to to to
family i’m sorry i cut you off but but
that’s kind of what i don’t know
yeah yes the question is what are you
into right i mean do you have hobbies
are you your churchgoer
um you know what what is it because
we have all of those resources and
community organizations and groups like
everywhere else one organization that
i’m a part of that i always encourage
uh people moving here to get involved in
is the kona historical society they
they’re an organization it’s really the
only
museum type organization on the west
side of the island but they their
mission is to preserve kona’s history
and there’s lots of volunteer
activities and the people who you’ll
meet there are volunteers a lot of times
in the same stage of life that you know
have time on their hands and um you know
you can get involved that way there’s
many different ways whether it’s
knitting or card playing or you know
whatever is canoe paddling there’s lots
of canoe paddling organizations and a
lot of that maybe wasn’t happening over
the last you know last year and a half
but that’s all coming back now but i i
always reference the hawaiian uh
cultural practice of hanai right which
is like
adoption in in english it’s kind of the
the term but it’s but it’s different
where it’s not like a legal formal
process it’s more the the the practice
of taking people into your family and it
can be children or or you know younger
folks but i also hanai aunties and
uncles into my family right so if you
like auntie joyce right she comes here
she doesn’t have um you know family here
and if she’s got to move a couch into
her house who does she call she calls me
and my brother right let me if you need
if you need young strong people to help
you like i’m her hanai nephew you know
and i’ll help her so that type of
culture exists everywhere and you’ll be
surprised i don’t think it exists
anywhere else as strongly as it does
here so you will not have a problem yeah
there’s a really interesting that and
that’s a that’s a really good point and
i think the the the nugget of the
takeaway is well it’s a combination of a
bunch of things right it’s your attitude
number first and foremost you kind of
said that in the beginning you got to be
someone people want to invite into their
family
you got to be someone people want to
invite their family uh we actually talk
about this quite a bit in the islander
ohana courses that we go through we talk
about you know
the whole spiritual transformation that
you have to go through the cultural
adjustment that you have to go through
uh but it’s it’s all about kind of
joining those groups uh and uh kelly uh
who is a member of the islander ohana
talks about facebook groups as well
there’s all kinds of facebook groups out
there that’s a place to get started to
get that connection but of course you
want to get that face-to-face connection
by the way mary jean says 54 degrees
congrats to kelly she’s under contract
on her house on the east side so
all right kelly under contract
congratulations kelly i’ve now called
now is that so kelly
if that is that gonna make you a tri
coastal because if you’re a buy coastal
and you’re buying in kona will you be a
tri coastal that’d be kind of cool so
she’s buying it she’s buying on the east
side east side yeah
cool awesome it’s another coast east
side of hawaii west side of the united
states there you go i guess that’s my
cool story i guess that’s by coast it
depends what coast you’re talking about
right uh excellent uh mary jean says
it’s 54 degrees in chicago mary jean in
chicago or illinois that’s that’s still
like warm weather people still walk
around in shorts they’re washing their
cars you know with t-shirts on and and
everything in the 54. uh come back mary
jean in february that’s the one i want
to talk to you about in february uh
jason says you know every time i’ve been
to the islands i’ve come back with
additional friends some i still am
connected with today the ohana is a
great place to start jason is a member
of the honor ohana and that’s kind of a
bootstrap place right that’s what the
island that’s one of the things that the
islander ohana does we all kind of we’ve
created an ohana uh that that people
share now you know dylan i was going to
ask you auntie joyce here uh no
neighbors are also a great source for
socializing that’s the that’s the most
logical one and it creates a better and
safe neighborhood um
and a good place to go you know donald’s
going to ask you about your anti-joyce
hanaying i wanna know who hanai’d who
did you hanai auntie joyce first or did
auntie joyce hanai you first because
auntie joyce kind of refers to you
almost almost as a nephew uh
but you know
she probably did it first let’s see if i
did it first always call the nonakas
they’ve been our saviors i keep telling
them they are now stuck with us so there
you go
i had no choice there you go i had no
choice awesome awesome uh yeah so uh
jason 55 and reigning for days jason
where you’re on northeast coast if i’m
not mistaken right where where are you
at uh jason give us a give us a a an
update on your general location uh and
uh mary jane uh stay with us until
february at the very least um so scott
what’s what’s your uh you know and anne
didn’t ask about oahu is there anything
kind of favorite group that you know
about on on oahu or how would you you
know what would be some tips to get
connected to uh on oahu
yeah i i mean to go to the quick
question about which is easier maui or
oahu i’d say oahu just in general
because it’s a it’s a city you’re going
to have more options at your fingertips
so the the number of options are going
to be probably a little more available
on oahu than they would be on the outer
islands um but it comes down to what
you’re passionate about and getting
connected into the community
getting involved in the things that
you’re passionate about i mean one of
the the biggest
joys for people you know and happiness
is giving back to others so volunteering
is always a good one i know when i moved
over here to oahu
i didn’t know anybody and one of my
things was surfing i met quite a few
people from surfing if you go out
surfing you go the same surf spot every
morning or at the you can go to any surf
spot same times basically it’ll be the
same people out there and i remember
when i moved over here you know on the
big island i could go out super early
right right before dawn and there’d be
like one two people in the water so i
thought i’d be cool and do that here on
oahu and i went out to waikiki right
prior to sunrise and there’s probably
like 100 people in the water because
they’re all doing that before they go to
work and it’s the same people
so it’s whatever you’re passionate about
um you know it’s having that common
connection with others and and getting
involved with something that you have
that commonality with and that’s why i
mean what you’re doing with the island
or ohana to me is is really key i mean
that now people one of the biggest
things moving over here is not having
that support group immediately not
having some of the answers and and
that’s essentially what you’re given is
that commonality and that support group
already for people that have moved over
here or are doing it
yeah it’s really fun i mean we we have
these um part of going we have a cohort
that goes through a every two weeks we
get together with it with an online
video conference and we just it’s really
been great the exchange everyone’s
everyone’s kind of fun you’re making
friends right right off the bat uh and
we have a private facebook group with
all of the islander ohana alumni uh and
it’s it’s it’s really awesome so yeah
it’s it’s getting you know the i was
thinking about on oahu scott
specifically one thing that i’m i i um
someone had mentioned to me is that they
uh they got involved with a uh with the
sierra club that uh if you like the
outdoor kind of thing which is unnatural
in hawaii and there’s there’s also a
hiking club that kind of you know they
basically they they publish their thing
and they they meet a long time ago they
used to meet at you know iolani palace
seven you know six o’clock in the
morning on on saturday and then off they
go uh and that is a great place where
you know you can see the outdoors go on
some great hikes be with a bunch of
people it all works out um
hey gang if you’re if you’re tuning in
what ideas do you have share what ideas
do you have
about getting together how would you
socialize how do you go ahead in and
meet people how would you get connected
even where you live i’m sure the the
techniques are all pretty much the
i’m sure they’re very very similar hey
so uh here we got a kelly head uh uh
he’s got a uh kelly’s got a shout out to
kelly shout out to kenny to kelly fuller
i’m assuming that’s her agent uh or the
agent on the big on what a great
experience she’s the best yeah that’s
totally awesome i i’m dylan i’m sure
that you can pass that on to uh to kelly
fuller who i’m sure is going to really
appreciate that
um
excellent uh uh heidi what’s uh
so anne’s you know anne’s question about
you know oahu or maui is socially
established what kind of you know what
kind of details can you give and that
which what she should do uh to kind of
get socially connected
well i think you can get socially
connected on either island i mean maui
and oahu are are just very different so
it just depends where you want to live i
mean
i haven’t spent a lot of time on oahu
but when i go there it it feels more
like a big city there’s definitely more
people there um
to me maui feels like living in a small
town
um but there are still
a lot of things to do and people to
connect with um
and as was said before i mean it depends
what you’re into i mean there’s book
clubs here
uh paddling clubs are huge i mean
there’s people that get together and go
to the farmer’s market
and make juice i mean
there’s
all kinds of things to do there’s uh
rotary clubs are big on maui
for volunteer opportunities there’s
tutoring opportunities at the school
because we are a smaller island i mean
if you have any particular skill or
passion i mean there’s going to be an
opportunity
for you here
um
and i don’t know if anybody uses the
next door
um app it’s kind of a social media thing
people seem to be really active on that
too i mean somebody mentioned facebook
but next door is like more local
to just your neighborhood
and a lot of people use that i mean i
think
if you just meet one or two people and
go from there i mean it’s it’s really
easy to meet people
yeah i think that’s the i think that’s
the thing there’s a variety of ways i
think you’ve got to be you’ve got to set
yourself up like dylan said and be the
kind of person that people want to
invite uh and that’s that’s really on on
you to be uh to be that kind of an
individual but you know getting involved
in various groups uh next doors i see a
lot of activity next door you kind of
have to be moved into an area but
certainly once you’ve moved
once you moved into an area getting the
next door thing would definitely be a a
helpful piece for sure and uh here’s
kelly fuller who’s on on the show with
us hey kelly glad that you’re here with
us and kelly’s kelly’s giving a thanks a
back a thanks back out to kelly how cool
is that
awesome so hey gang before we move on
listen we’ve got a bunch of uh uh we’ve
got a a whole collection of questions
that i’ve queued up that we have slides
for but the most important the most
important questions are yours so if
you’ve got anything you want to know pop
it in the comments now we’ll try to get
to before the end of the show uh don’t
forget that all right let’s move on
a great great discussion on the socially
uh on the socially established and and
then hopes this i hope this helps you
all right let’s let’s hit this one so we
want some buying advice for the big
island so this one comes from uh from c
fox from
from ohio says dylan regarding the big
island if you were to buy a home now uh
half to one acre in kailua kona with an
ocean view where would you buy
the pu’ulani ranch area is not really my
interest and prefer more south but north
of captain cook and then question two is
what’s your most requested price range
that most clients are asking for a house
and uh where are the majority of your
buyers from right now during the
pandemics a bunch of questions about
kona but you know these are kind of
generic questions and we’re going to pop
these to all the other islands as well
so i think the big thing is like hey if
you’re going to buy a home now where
would you buy it uh and number two uh
you know what’s the most requested price
uh price range that is coming in for uh
for asking for a house and uh you know
where are the majority of your buyers
from go ahead dylan
so so in terms of where
you know i always recommend this is my
personal preference but i like to be at
elevation just because i think it’s the
the perfect weather so
you can get an ocean view at 300 feet of
elevation and you can get an ocean view
at 4000 feet of elevation right but to
me the sweet spot is like a thousand or
1500 if you’re in that that belt that
coffee belt you have cool weather all
year round you have a little bit of rain
so you don’t need irrigation i mean it’s
just to me
worldwide best weather you could
possibly be is that a thousand feet of
elevation in cairo in in kona anywhere
in kona
so that’s the first thing you know
narrowing the search kona is not a big
place so
it could be anywhere i mean from the
northern side to captain cook i mean
there’s there’s an upper highway that
that is pretty much at a thousand feet
so above or below that there’s a lot of
different options so it’s really a
personal preference but elevation i
think is the first uh most important
thing
for 80 of our buyers always come from
out of state or somewhere else so that
hasn’t changed that’s pretty consistent
um and that’s definitely the case case
now
most requested price range i think
that’s kind of a self-fulfilling
prophecy because people know what the
price range is i mean and and so
it’s always between kind of that 700 000
and 1.5 million
um is it is like the sweet spot where
most of the inventory is not too much
below seven and not and then and then
you know once you get above 1.5 it’s
kind of a different market so that’s
that’s where most of the inventory is
and you know where most of our clients
come from
excellent uh see we got a couple of uh
comments over here from paul is a
thousand foot kona sounds amazing uh
coastal belt warm is uh 80 to 90. yeah
so uh
so people have this vision they want to
live near the ocean right but in kona a
thousand feet is near the ocean right i
mean like you can be you can be seven
minutes away from the beach because it’s
it’s a big steep it’s a big steep island
right so you don’t have to go
you know 30 minutes into the mountains
to get to a thousand feet of elevation
it’s very it happens very quickly
yeah that’s that’s a really that’s a
that’s a a very good point you’re kind
of almost on on cliffs there uh
basically uh so yeah so heather says so
don’t sell my rain jacket when i move to
hawaii you know
only if you have a very thin rain jacket
i said like if it’s like a windbreaker
thin if
it’s like a windbreaker kind of rain
jacket uh if it’s anything thicker you
know if you wouldn’t wear it in the
summer in the rain don’t bring it uh
that’s that’s that’s what i would say uh
and uh paul says yeah it’s a 10 a 10
minute a 10 a 10 minute drive yeah
exactly uh heather got a thing back when
i asked about kind of how you’re going
to get socially connected heather says
on my plans to join a master swim team
wherever i end up swimmers are usually
pretty fun and social met so many
friends that way also volunteering would
be a great way to give back and meet
others plus i’m a bit of an extrovert so
i’m not too worried yeah heather i think
you’ve got it covered uh
i had a great call with heather two the
other day so she’s she’s preparing to to
start looking and making the move yeah
awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome
yeah that’s it and you know and and
kelly gave a really a really good point
here it’s more what climate do you want
to live in that is the that is the
coolest piece about hawaii right is you
can pick your climate uh everything uh
what is it like every climate is
represented in hawaii except like tundra
arctic the only climate we don’t have is
arctic i think something like that um we
got we got it all we got desert we got
rain forest uh we have cool mountain air
uh we have oceanfront stuff it’s it’s
good so uh so awesome
all right uh
uh let’s see scott what’s uh uh what
would you say on those questions um you
know where would you scott buy if you
were gonna buy a house on oahu today uh
what and what’s kind of the the price
range that you’re seeing for those for
houses in that area scott scott knows
the big island he can recommend the big
island too
actually we got the big uh we need we we
need oahu now
um yeah so i i mean i’ve been in the
place that i want to live for 20 21
years i’ve owned here i mean i’m at the
base of diamond head so i i love it here
i would live in kailua as well
actually it’s funny i was looking last
night like where is the bulk the sales
activity happening on oahu and it’s
happening between 700 and 2.2 million
and that’s where a majority of
everything is selling is in that range
and going nuts even the stuff above it’s
going crazy but for me i love diamond
head i mean i’m right here you got 300
acre kapiolani park i walk out my door i
got 13 restaurants right out here on
montserrat and shops and stuff i’m a
less than a five-minute uber ride right
into waikiki if i want to get in the
heart of everything but i feel like i’m
in a you know
established neighborhood with you know
big tall growth trees i mean palm trees
things such as that
um so i i like the ac the access to the
urban core i like but i like being a
little removed and having some privacy
kailua would be amazing too because it’s
um you know boutique but beach community
you’re a little reserved you know it’s a
little more slower pace it’s more beach
lifestyle i like the shops and
restaurants over there they’ve got some
good restaurants and the shops are more
your european style so they’re really
small
and you know family oriented shops
rather than the big box stores but you
can get into honolulu with a 30-minute
drive
awesome awesome so heidi uh i’m assuming
you’re living where you’d want to live
but uh where would you live if you were
going to buy a home in maui how would
you answer those questions and what’s by
the way scott i’m sorry let’s back up
for me what’s the price range in those
areas that you talked about scott
yeah kailua i mean you’re
you’re probably 900
2 million is the bulk and it definitely
gets above that there was just a sale
not too long ago and lanikai for 24
million so that that’s a high price
range but you know
uh 900 to
you know 6 million is kind of where it
runs in kailua and then diamond hit you
know if you get in kapahula which is
across the street you can get
900 to you know 2 million
there’s not a whole lot that goes above
2 million because the lots are smaller
but if you’re in diamond head oh it’s
1.5 to you know six seven million in
fact if that circle right here i’m right
off diamond head circle
uh there’s a couple that went there for
close to 10 million
there you go so uh heidi
dylan did you mention a price range
about the about the areas on the big on
i i i can’t i’m a little bit spaced out
after after my power outage did you yeah
in corner it’s like 700 or 1.5 i mean
there’s definitely stuff that sells
above 1.5 but that’s where the bulk of
the inventory is
700 1.5 yeah heidi so let’s get back to
you now so what uh maui what’s your rec
you know where would you
live where would you buy a home in maui
heidi and what’s the given price range
about those homes
well i live in west maui and i i love it
i i think the sweet spot for weather is
in the kanapali area which is
the entire west side of maui it’s
considered lahaina but there’s all these
different neighborhoods and
as you go farther north up the coast it
gets a little bit cooler a little bit
wetter
kanapali is just kind of right in the
middle i think it has the most beautiful
weather in the world if it’s raining up
north and i’m driving down the road as i
get to kind of polly the sun starts
shining and there’s a rainbow
i mean i i just think that’s
the best place in the world for weather
um
homes in that area i mean you’re looking
in the two to four million range
for a single family home
that’s the price of seeing the rainbow
uh on on a daily basis right as you’re
as you’re driving to a kind of poly good
awesome uh
great uh great discussion on on where
that has so hey you know if you’re
watching uh what area of what district
and what area of what island are do you
have an interest in uh let me know i’m
curious of kind of what what’s kind of
uh and why why are you kind of choosing
why are you gravitating towards that
whatever area that you’re interested in
if you’ve got that pop it in the
comments i’d like to know all right uh
let’s move on to the to the next
question here that we’ve got queued up
and this one is a finance options uh for
for veterans so this is from mark and
from arizona from goodyear arizona and
mark says hey my wife and i lived on
oahu and maui for 20 years we lived in
one building specifically the waipuna in
waikiki we’re looking at moving back and
wanted to know what the financing of the
property is like in hawaii now i’m a
veteran i would like to use my veterans
administration
benefits i don’t have to but prefer it
that way va sometimes gets a bad rap but
i’ve used it many times without any
issues before i have a good amount to
put down if needed but at two and a
quarter percent
would rather put down 10 percent and not
pay the big funding fee and use the
money elsewhere is this a viable option
in the market thanks love your show so
mark uh mark has a great question i
think it really goes down to like what’s
the best option sort of if you’re going
to use va financing and i really enjoyed
this slide uh uh mark because i too
lived at that same condo the waipuna in
waikiki and i really enjoyed i i spent a
good year there and had a phenomenal i
had the most incredible view of the
ocean right out my bedroom window i
would look up my in fact i had a great
view out on my bathroom look out the
bathroom i saw great amazing oceans you
never had that before uh scott why don’t
you take this one uh let’s let’s get
this one rolling here you uh you
mentioned that you thought this was a
really good question why don’t you give
mark your advice
yeah i love this question especially for
now so as va
you know he mentioned about va
having a
a reputation for not being as
you know as friendly of alone or as easy
to do some you know having a bad rap
that’s completely the opposite now and
it probably changed about three years
ago even before then it wasn’t too bad
that’s more of an older school myth but
even for now it’s actually easier to do
va loans than certain conventional loans
in fact if there’s unpermitted issues i
can
va did not before allow unpermitted
issues they do now and it’s easier for
me to get contractor in and get that
approved by the va to be accepted for va
loans so
va loans are great they’re probably one
of the best programs out there if you
qualify for it you should be using it if
you can where it’s tricky in this market
is if you’re doing 100 financing and you
don’t have any cash to show for an
appraisal clause now you’ve got an issue
but the benefit on the va loan side when
it comes to single-family homes and
whatnot um is if you do have money to
put down say the 10
what i
what i’m doing for example is and i we
did this in ocean point i’ve done this
on a bunch actually this year um we come
in
you know you can do up to 100 financing
so we for one example we did one at 1.2
million but yet we were bringing in i
think it was 150 000 for the down
payment and we were saying hey if the
appraisal came in short we’ll use that
150 000 somewhere in there to make up
the difference and we got into first
position so we were able to compete with
people that way so you have that
flexibility of a high
high percentage of borrowing um on the
purchase price to hunt up to 100 but
then you can use whatever reserves or
whatever down payment you had to be able
to cover yourself in this market where
it gets a little interesting
and they mentioned waipuna i love that
building great floor plans great
location you know right there in waikiki
but um
when it comes to purchasing condos for
va loans the main thing is the building
has to be a va approved if it’s not va
approved you can’t do it or you have to
get a lender i work with a really good
lender who can get them approved in the
process but it’s hard in this market
where you’re competing if it’s not
already on the list
you’re going to have a hard time
negotiating to get chosen oh hey we got
to add this extra contingency into the
contract so great great loan program
great option and if you have money for
that down or that appraisal clause right
now then you can compete with a va loan
excellent thanks scott hey we get we got
a couple of comments that that popped in
uh
jeremy loves the maka wow area on maui
uh yeah that’s
anywhere on maui is awesome auntie joyce
we are at the 1 000 elevation with great
views and perfect weather the coffee
belt and
uh recommended and let’s see when joseph
says kailua kalama track walking access
to beach via kalama beach club
membership there you go awesome great
recommendations everybody uh uh terrific
uh gene says had a beautiful halloween
and safe scott you’re the best yeah gene
gene i agree scott is the bomb uh
fantastic hey dylan uh you know you’re
you’re our uh you are still serving uh
the military and thank you for your
service uh i you might be the next uh is
there anything that that you want to
fill in that scott hasn’t covered yet
about va loans and things of that nature
no scott covered all of the um
the strategies which is important i mean
you can put yourself at a disadvantage
when you have a zero percent down loan
but if you have the appraisal clause or
the ability to cover a gap in the
appraisal that that can help um i’ve
used the va loan um it’s it’s it’s a
great loan program and so
in the in most cases
it’s it’s more competitive than some of
the other low down payment loans because
it’s a more guaranteed loan and if you
have money to put down or in money in
reserves to cover an appraisal gap you
know you can be very competitive so i
wouldn’t worry about that
well we got uh kelly over here who says
that you can always a refi with the va
v8 doesn’t like fixers a lot of hurdles
so i guess that kelly is speaking from
the experience that’s that is the
downside i mean it’s a condition issue i
mean you do have to have a livable house
that doesn’t have any condition issues
that isn’t majorly unpermitted right so
so if there is a downside definitely you
know the va makes sure that you’re not
buying junk right but if you’re if
you’re buying in a condo and the condos
approved very smooth easy process i’ve
done a ton of them
awesome awesome heidi is there anything
you want to add to this that that we’ve
missed regarding uh financing options
via loan strategies best practices
anything you want to add
um i mean yeah this has been covered i
think but
the
most challenging thing is in this market
if you’re doing a low down payment loan
like va
it’s almost expected that you’re going
to waive the appraisal contingency
so if the buyer doesn’t have the
reserves to do that they i mean they
often are just continually beat out for
offers
so
that’s just kind of rough right now with
va
and then the other thing is just making
sure the condo is approved there can’t
be any litigation going on in the condo
and
anyway it’s just knowing which condos
are approved which aren’t if you’re
going for a condo
um but that’s really about it and va
loans here on maui have been closing and
they’ve
actually been closing as fast or faster
than some other conventional loans these
days which is interesting because i
think some people have the perception oh
it’s going to be really difficult
because it’s va and it’s
that’s not what i’ve seen recently so
that’s good
yeah
that that’s an inch i mean that’s a
great point because um it’s interesting
there’s an extra step in the va loan
process when the appraisal gets done it
actually eventually has to get approved
by the va department or whatever um but
what’s interesting in this market why
we’re able to close va loans faster is
because the appraisers are have a faster
turnaround time deadline on the
appraisals when they have to be back
versus conventional loans so they’re
they’re they have a shorter window to do
the appraisal and get it back whereas on
conventional we’re looking at like three
four weeks sometimes on the conventional
side so we’re actually able to do va
loans faster in this market because of
that
interesting stuff very interesting stuff
and uh joseph is a happy camper thanks
really liked the program and jeremy
saying a va a one week turnaround time
for the appraisal uh jeremy would know
because he’s getting it so jeremy did
you get your your appraisal license or a
certification or classes or is are you
still in route i’d i’d like to know fill
us in uh awesome uh great great job
everybody uh let’s move on to the the
next next topic that we got over here
this one is coming out of out of maui
so uh this is from uh michela who’s from
nashville and joseph uh
and they’re they’re asking hey you know
how do you afford
how do you afford paying
the number one how do you afford how to
afford it in hawaii but i think the real
interesting question is how do you avoid
paying
inflated housing prices so my my my
quick snarky answer is well don’t buy it
that’s how you avoid playing inflated
prices if you’re going to buy it
you’re going to end up paying whatever
the price that that that the market is
going so
when when someone you know when someone
comes in and they’re they’re maybe
they’re like shell-shocked as far as uh
you know the prices and the the price
range going on and it’s too expensive
how do they afford it dylan how do you
respond to that
oh that’s all a matter of perspective
right um
the way you afford avoid paying enough
uh inflated price is not waiting until
the interest rates go up and prices
continue to appreciate so
um you may feel like you’re paying too
much now but if you wait a year and
interest rates go up one percent and
price appreciation continues 10 plus
percent you’re going to be paying
significantly more and have less
borrowing power and paying more per
month for
um the same house because the interest
rate went higher so
i would say not waiting is the way that
you avoid it
never thought about that not waiting
scott how do you respond to that people
say look i can’t you know i can’t afford
it how do i avoid you know how do i
avoid paying this inflated price if they
believe it’s inflated what what’s your
response
yeah i mean it is perspective you know
if you’re coming from an area where you
can get half acre uh parcel with a brand
new home at 3 000 square feet for 300
000 you’re obviously going to get a
little bit shell shock part of that is
working with someone like us who where
we were very good about being able to
educate the client
being able to educate you on the market
what to expect because yeah there’s an
adjustment period you have to get used
to it and you have to understand what’s
here um
you know it’s as far as affordability
it’s
it is what it is you know you’re either
going to qualify or not you either have
the income or you don’t we can go
through that process and kind of see
what you do qualify for and then if
there are issues then the qu part of the
question is is you know do you are there
certain things that you can sacrifice on
do you need to adjust what your needs
are or your wants are to you know how
important is home ownership for you at
that point
awesome thanks scott heidi how do you
respond to that when someone says hey
you know this is a crazy price how am i
gonna know how can i avoid not having to
pay this price or how can i afford these
crazy prices in maui what’s your
response
well i mean keep in mind the asset that
you own in maui when you sell it
you’re selling it in maui so it’s just
it’s really important to just look at
the market that you’re buying in and
get a good value in that market in that
moment
um
you cannot compare it to other markets
while you’re looking
um and then as far as i mean how do you
afford it
i mean real estate’s expensive it’s
always been expensive
um
you just have to decide if it’s
something that you want to own and
jump in i mean the good thing about real
estate is you can live in it
i think the thing too is like i mean you
you’re touching a simple point and it’s
it’s overlooked it’s it’s so it’s so
obvious but it but i think it it means a
lot which is well number one you live in
it which is which is you know you’re
where you are but it’s also it it you
know you’re
if you’re able to hold on to the pr if
you haven’t over bought where you’re in
a bad financial situation if you kind of
you know if you can afford it
it’s especially in hawaii there’s a good
chance that you know if you can hold on
to for a few years you’re going to be
able to sell it for more than you bought
it for now whether that’s one year
you’ll be so you know one year or
whether it’s five years you’re going to
be able to sell for more than you bought
it for so it is you know one of the best
terms i’ve ever heard is like this is a
force it’s a for savings account right
it’s a for savings account and if you
could get that part you can get over it
but
and here and here’s some just real world
perspective right i sold i sold my house
um
a year ago a little more than a year ago
and
when we sold it for 450 i thought man
this is crazy that someone’s gonna buy
this old house in this neighborhood they
paid over over what we were asking for
it
and it sold
and then today there’s like houses right
next to it selling for 600 right so that
person that bought that house is feeling
like a genius today i mean in my
professional opinion i feel like that
was kind of like expensive at the time
and you know less than 18 months later
they probably made a hundred plus
thousand in equity in that house so
at that time it may have felt like a lot
but now you feel like a genius so you
know it all depends on where you are in
your timeline
and and it all depends on the conditions
no one would have i don’t think you know
i remember you know when when when covet
first struck right and like the asteroid
hit the planet right
we were like man you know what what is
going to happen we kind of didn’t know
until there was a little bit of a you
know a trend line started but really you
know there were a lot of people that i’m
sure there were a lot of people who lost
a lot of money betting against what was
going to happen i’m sure there’s a lot
of people who thought that the market
was going to crash and it did the exact
opposite and i don’t know it would have
been it would be fun to know if uh who
accurately predicted that there was
going to be such an increase in the uh
that you know that there i’d love to
know if anyone accurately predicted what
was going to happen in hawaii’s real
estate market i think everyone was
thinking crash maybe because we’re we’re
still sore from the 2008 uh uh the 2008
asteroid uh but uh everybody thought it
was gonna crash and it did not so you
never know right you never know dylan
right and uh the happiest people are the
ones that bought in 2020.
anybody well you’re not going to want a
house in 2020 thinks they’re a genius so
you’re you are not kidding
absolutely right
uh it’s uh those are those are those are
great moments if you if you can get to
them oh hey man we’ve i completely
forgot we didn’t do our diamonds and
deals geez i so i’m so frazzled you know
the power i’m still like freaking out on
the power outage so why don’t we do this
real quick so let’s do this real fast
and uh we will we’ll skip the the
closing thoughts i do want to get to our
diamonds and deals uh let’s move on and
uh door of faith love this heidi this is
a court what what is this heidi
so this is out in haiku um
on a very dramatic sea cliff it’s two
acres
um large five bedroom home and an
attached ohana there’s an infinity pool
as you can see in that one picture
um
it’s a diamond and a deal at
just about two and a half million it is
under contract by the way
um so but yeah just a really incredible
sight
um it’s spring-fed water
and there is fiber optic high-speed
internet so you can work remotely out
there
wow that that is that is i that’s i
heidi uh we’ll see but i think that’s
the winner for today that is
unbelievable on that almost looks like
an airstrip if i if i zoom it looks like
like a landing field over there that one
straight thing whatever that is whatever
it is it’s awesome what an amazing place
and we we just talked about those uh
those thousand foot cliff drops that
how’s that for a thousand foot clipped
off straight into the ocean with that
infinity pool unbelievable
uh hawaii kai scott what are we looking
at over here
yeah this was a that’s a pretty unique
one or really cool and came on yesterday
um so it’s
it’s in hawaii kai it’s in the valley um
mariners valley and it’s on a fifteen
thousand a little more than fifteen
thousand square foot lot which is really
big for the area this is a rim lot it
butts up against the hillside and the
valley so part of the lot is level and
you you do have the pool you got four
bedrooms two and a half bath it’s over
2200 square feet into your living space
renovated you got these soaring ceilings
a lot of light it’s a really nicely done
property
and then the second part of the property
that’s not level it terraces up and goes
up the hillside so you got these little
perch areas where you can kind of
oversee the valley and entertain from
and uh and you got fruit trees and
things so it’s super private you have no
back neighbors it’s all conservation
land that’s in behind you but yet you
have this you know really nice level
portion as well and a good size home
great for entertaining and for kids and
with the pool and it’s listed at 1.495
million
i’d say that’s a diamond and a deal uh
at 1.4 uh now this is kalama valley is
this that is that where this is it’s
mariners valley so if you’re going to
earners home road right to the back so
you’re really close to where the
shopping centers are and everything in
the marina so you’re not tucked too far
back in hawaii kai it’s a really good
location really good so a good location
that is a uh i i’d have to say knowing
what i’ve known what little i see about
the market that seems to be actually a
really good price diamond and a deal
pool with a 2200 square foot home
awesome all right what do we got left to
hear uh banyan’s a four four four
bedroom five bath on banyan’s bay 3.5
dylan 303.49 dylan what is this
yes look at that that all it’s a it’s
like a three bit or almost a four-story
house there
right on the point and this is a
surfer’s paradise so if you’re if you
like the surf there is basically one big
bay in kona that has two of the best
surf spots so banyan’s on is to the
south of this house and then lyman’s is
to the north and banyan’s is like the
best short board kind of barreling
closest thing to pipeline that we kind
of have on the big island and then
lyman’s is a really it’s got to be kind
of big but it’s beautiful long left
that’s a great longboard wave or um you
know it’s a real a real mellow break but
it’s got to be big when it breaks
because because it’s really deep so just
a super cool location i mean four
bedrooms five baths i mean you know the
knives at every story just ridiculous
you get that picture on the top
top left like just windows just right on
the ocean and it’s out on a point so
when you look left and right i mean it’s
like over 180 you know 180 degree ocean
views pretty much so yeah just a real
rare one doesn’t come stuff like this
doesn’t come up very often and that that
that looks absolutely amazing and and
paul says it’s banyan’s so it sounds
like paul serves up paul are you surfing
banyans and it sounds like you might be
serving banyans awesome hey again great
uh great job today look it’s we’re one
minute shy let’s just do some really
quick closing thoughts this has been a
great uh a great setup over here uh
let’s let’s play with this so what’s our
closing thought for today let’s let’s go
down let’s go from bottom up heidi scott
and dylan heidi what’s your closing
thought for today
um
just take the time every day to
recognize the good things in your life
and
be grateful and it’s it’s something i
try to think about because
there’s always something good in the day
always something good in the day and be
grateful
amen to that uh hawaii makes it easy
scott what’s your thought of the day
i just wanted to wish everybody a happy
halloween i was going to get a costume
but i ran out of time it would have been
fun being on here with a really goofy
looking costume but
happy halloween everybody
hey you had your uh that’s that’s right
you you were the guy that that that had
the fun the fun christmas hat of course
how could we forget how can we forget
and uh thanks paul paul has done that
and and uh
excellent and uh lin says uh enjoy
always catching the live stream aloha
friday yeah welcome lin and hey folks uh
welcome lyndon if you’ve got any closing
thoughts love to hear your closing
wisdom pop them in the comments uh of
course we all we all look forward to the
great dylanism every every other friday
dylan what’s your closing thought for
today so my thought for the week i heard
this this weekend it was like really
stuck with you and i added to my list so
the worst thing you can be is a level 10
player in a level 5 opportunity and it’s
business related but i think about it in
life too right if you want to live life
to level 10 but you live in a place that
only lets you do it to level 5 you got
to change your opportunity you got to
change your environment right so don’t
be a level 5 player don’t be a level 10
player in a level 5 opportunity
you’re going to be a level 10 player
goal to be a level the same is true in
in business and career right i mean if
you’re not reaching your full potential
where you’re at and you have more
potential go someplace else yeah
absolutely well well well said mahalo
tom we’re glad that you’re a part of our
show and glad that you stuck it all the
way through i i came across my another
favorite proverb i don’t come i don’t
come across these often but when i do i
do want to share them i came across a
great thing in proverb the book of
proverbs i highly recommend it whether
you’re religious or not it’s of amazing
wisdom in the in the book uh the human
mind may devise many plans but it is the
purpose of the lord that will be
established and what that means to me is
that is that basically you know you
could you can make whatever plans that
that you want but but it is the plans of
whatever you’re connecting to whatever
higher power you connect to connecting
to a higher power those are the plans
that are established you may think of
one thing or another but those higher
plans in other words align yourself to
higher plans that’s my thought for for
the day all right folks well i think
that’s about it we’re going to we’re
going to close this one up i want to
thank you all for giving your your thank
you for being here auntie joyce uh and
and paul
and uh who else who else we gotta bring
in janine hallelujah indeed janine uh
pam great pen great to have you here uh
bernard welcome great uh great that you
are a part of it amen and aloha that’s
bernard’s working with scott and uh judy
thanks judy i’m great thank you judy for
giving a plug to joining the elender
hana all right folks uh we’re going to
say goodbye let’s do a quick quick round
clockwise scott i mean dylan scott and
heidi go hello everybody have a good
weekend
have a good weekend
aloha
aloha everybody thanks again thanks ray
and thanks heather oh ray good to see
you again all right folks y’all take
care aloha
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