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scott on November 3rd, 2009

Coming up on The Hawaii Real Estate Report: Re-use Hawaii.
Re-use Hawai’i  (www.reusehawaii.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building material reuse and recycling. Their mission is to keep reusable building material out of the waste stream, and in use in our community.
They specialize in “deconstruction” which is a systematic disassembly of a structure in order to preserve the [...]

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scott on October 13th, 2009

Pete Cooper – CEO Sun Energy Solutions
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scott on September 30th, 2009

A new website has just been launched by the Hawaii Association of Realtors to give helpful information on those facing or about to face foreclosures on their homes in Hawaii real estate:
http://preventforeclosurehawaii.org/

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Join us as we interview Julian Yates III, PhD in Entomology as he talks about those pesky pests, Termites, that cause millions of dollars in damage to Hawaii real estate.
He’s even bringing a few of those critters to the show! Watch it!
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scott on September 8th, 2009

Thomas Wong – Real Estate Commissioner gives us an update on Foreclosures in Hawaii.
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New episode: Saturday, September 12 – Peter Savio – The benefits of Real Estate investing [...]

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scott on June 11th, 2009

Taxpayers Beware: Zero Profit Doesn’t Mean Zero Capital Gains Taxes
Compliments of
Julie Tumbaga
Vice President, Hawaii Regional Manager
(877) 591-1031 toll free
jtumbaga@orexco1031.com
In this difficult market, many taxpayers are selling property in short sales or other transactions with no profit. Unfortunately, what many taxpayers do not understand is that property may be sold with no profit, but still be [...]

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scott on June 2nd, 2009

Do you have a mortgage with a variable or high interest rate? If you do, it makes a lot of sense to refinance. Thirty-year fixed-rate mortgages are currently only about 5 percent – and you want to lock in a low rate now, because inflation is on the horizon.
Inflation is coming due to the colossal amount [...]

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Jeff Orig, RA - Hawaii Real Estate Report on May 27th, 2009

Aloha,
Below is a link brings you to an article from the latest Realtor magazine.
It talks about how equity for buyers across the country and particularly in Honolulu have strong equity positions on their homes if they bought in the last 5-20 years.
The article suggests that buying and holding over the long term in Honolulu presents [...]

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May 26, 2009

Hawaii Kai Lions to provide dad’s day breakfast again this year

Here we go again! The Hawaii Kai Lions Club will serve over 3,500 PANCAKE BREAKFASTS this Fathers’ Day to raise money to fund community projects such as: Vision Testing for Pre-School Children; Painting & Repair projects for East Oahu public schools; the Junior [...]

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Warren Buffett is the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and is one of the world’s wealthiest men. Buffett is known as “the Sage of Omaha” for his remarkable savvy in stock market investments and for the success of Berkshire Hathaway — the textile company he acquired in 1965 and turned into a holding company for [...]

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