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Honolulu was recently one of MSNBC’s 34 Cities Where It’s Better to Rent. The “better to rent” designation was the conclusion of a study using the generalization that truly affordable homes cost no more than 15 times their annual market rent.

Oahu home sales down September 2008 mikey Oahu's home prices took their biggest hit of 2008 in September. Prior to this, we had been happy to say that the U.S. housing market's slide had a minimal effect on Hawaii.

Earlier this month I wrote about a customer's shocking bill from Hawaiian Electric. He and I did some brainstorming about conserving electricity and monitoring our usage. He started checking his electric meter everyday and flipped ...

I wrote about some loan problems a homebuyer and I were having in a recent blog entitled Beware of Quicken Loans. It turns out that somebody at Quicken Loans read my blog! A marketing representative named Clayton Closson e-mailed me ...

Hawaii hanging on to sugar heritage on September 24th, 2008 Sugar was once king in Hawaii, steering the economy and politics while shaping the multicultural identity and colorful pidgin English language of these islands.

Honolulu residents know that a house in "town" is worth its weight in gold - even in this down market! Finding a house for sale in town for less than $500,000 means one of three things: 1) It's a miracle! 2) The house is a tear-do...

Hawaiian Electric Shock mikey How's your electric bill? I got a call from a customer last night and he was asking me what he should do about his electric bill. He had just moved into a two-bedroom townhome in Pearl City, Hawaii in June of this year.

In Hawaii we encourage our buyers to use local lending institutions. Buyers wonder why and sometimes think we're trying to help a relative or somebody else make some money. Here's a great example of things going wrong with a mainland...

Buying a vacation rental in Hawaii Vacation rentals are a popular topic for mainland investors buying in Hawaii. Buyers often think about owning a property here, renting it out like a hotel room for a tidy sum and living in it when they vacati...

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is part of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act and makes districts and schools accountable to students, parents and educators. To meet AYP, schools must meet achievement targets in reading and math, … View original post here: Hawaii Schools Ratings