Myron is a true expert in East Oahu real estate. He is courteous, well informed and extremely…read morediligent. He provided crucial market information on sales and competing properties to successfully market and sell our Kahala home to a qualified buyer. He also helped us close on a dream home! Thank you Myron and team!

***Note*** Below review is written by my aunt, Kay Yates…read more She wanted to write a review and used my account. Thank you! Andrew has been so very patient with me. He showed many homes but only 3 were to my liking. Our offer for the third house finally got the sellers approval and I am now a proud owner of a home in Kaneohe. This process took weeks on the internet, for I was a resident of Washington. Andrew was too kind when stating that I was not a problem for it seemed like there were more nos than yeses. My animals and I were transplanted to Oahu in October and we finally found a house in June!!!!!! Thank you Andrew for your diligence.

Want a realtor who will work day and night to find you the best property. Call Andrew. No property…read moreis too small no request to menial for him to research. Everyone says the best realtor is a hungry realtor and despite being incredibly successful at such a young age, Andrew works incredibly hard. He has helped me on multiple transactions and you always come out on top. He has almost a sixth sense about how the other party will respond and gives you honest advice. Multiple times he has told me walk away because of insight he had on assessments that were coming due and lack of reserve funds. He is also a master at communicating with other agents and making sure that they consider your offer. Dont want too many people to use him otherwise he wont have time for me, so I will leave at that.

I recently used Brett Aka to sell our apartment and to purchase a single family home this year. I…read morewill definitely use Brett and his team in future real estate transactions and highly recommend him to family and friends. I knew Brett from when he use to work at a large CPA firm. He was extremely hard working and put in a lot of long hours into making sure he delivered a highly quality product to his clients. He also knows how to deal with high pressure situations and manage everyone's expectations. His hard working ethics has definitely carried over to his career as a real estate agent. When selling our apartment, I was very impressed by the photos and videos used in his listings. We had a relatively short deadline to sell our place that we were renting out. But Brett worked with our property manager, staged the apartment very quickly and was able to sell our place well before our required deadline. My wife and I later decided to purchase a single family house through Brett shortly after. We initially were looking for a townhouse but after looking at multiple places with Brett and his team across the island, we were very fortunate to find an affordable single family house. Even though I know Brett is extremely busy on the weekends, his definitely made time for us in his busy schedule to look at numerous places for weeks. He definitely didn't pressure us into purchasing a place unless the place seemed ideal for us. I really appreciate that Brett and his team seemed to prioritize that we found a good quality place that fitted our lifestyle rather than how some real estate agents will try to sell you something fast without really spending the time and money to make sure it's a good fit. Another good quality of Brett is that he strategizes throughout the entire selling and purchase process. He is always considering the costs and benefits throughout the process and always considering our available options. Our previous real estate agent 5 years ago never strategized on pricing when we purchased our first place. As a result of all of our strategic planning, we were able to sell our apartment at a higher price than expected and purchase our new home at a price lower than expected. We were probably fortunate to be able to get these results, but I appreciate that Brett works hard to get the best price he can. Overall, I highly recommend Brett Aka and his team (Kandace Izumi and Katherine Martines) for anyone considering selling or purchasing a place. I appreciate that they all kept in touch after the closing transaction and assisted us in coordinating any repairs/renovations of our new place. My wife and I are very pleased working with Brett and his team.

This review is long overdue. Brett and his team are amazing! We previously used Brett a few years…read moreago. Brett and Kandace were so great in helping us sell our place and upgrade us for our growing family. They are so amazing we had to use them again for our new home. So glad his team is expanding with knowledgeable, friendly, and dedicated people. Brett, Kandace, and Katherine was sure to explain everything thoroughly and walked us through everything. Brett even helped asked all the right questions through our inspection. The team was there through every step and have been so supportive. We would not have been able to get through the process without them.

I cannot say enough wonderful things about my realtor, Pam Maeda…read more From the very beginning, Pam truly believed in me and my dream of homeownership. She patiently answered my questions, walked me through the entire process, listened carefully and helped ease my worries every step of the way. She connected me with my loan officer and always knew who to pair me up with to make the process seamless. Pam consistently showed up and checked in on me, making sure I never felt alone or overwhelmed. She was there for my walk-through and on key-receiving day, which meant so much to me. Her insight and expertise on walk-through day helped me look for things that I would never have thought of or considered, which is helpful when purchasing a new home. If not for her, I would have overlooked defects or flaws that I didn't know to look for. Her guidance, reassurance and steady presence made what could have been a stressful experience feel manageable and even exciting. She was patient with me and never made me feel as though any question or concern or even emotion was silly. Pam is knowledgeable, responsive and genuinely cares about her clients. She doesn't just do her job, she supports you, advocates for you and sees the process through from start to finish. Thanks to Pam, my dream of homeownership became a reality, and I am forever grateful. If you're looking for a realtor who truly listens, believes in you and shows up for you every step of the way, Pam Maeda is the one. Thank you, Pam! You are awesome sauce!!

Excellent customer service, trustworthy professionals, always responsive...relevant data provided…read moreto help make the most difficult and significant decisions. Mahalo for the assistance you have provided to me over the years Ms. Fukumae!

As you know, everyone knows a realtor, friends, family, etc. I needed a realtor to help my sister…read morebuy a condo in Hawaii, she been living in Las Vegas for the past 25 years. My good friend referred me to Sissy . Some day she will be moving back here to Hawaii. 2023 is the time to buy real-estate. Because of the interest rate is higher, people cannot afford the mortgage. In 2021 & 2022 there were a bidding war on any property you were interested to buy. Not anymore for 2023. Found a nice Condo, got $50,000 off asking price. Closed in 2-months. Since my sister lives in Las Vegas, I did all the negotiations, her job was to wire the money and sign documents on her phone, apparently because she not a Tec person she doesn't know how to sign the legal paperwork and send it back to Hawaii. That where Sissy Sosner came in, she actually called another realtor to help my sister, The other realtor drove to my sister house to help her, Now that what I call customer service. She did pretty much everything to make the transaction very easy. I highly recommend her if you need a realtor. Aloha, Derek

Carole Manuwa, I'm telling you, great great agent!…read more You couldn't ask for a better person to represent you as a buyer or a seller. We recently decided to buy though we weren't quite ready, and after meeting and working with Carole she helped us get in to the perfect unit in record time. 65 days from search to keys in hand, even in this crazy market and we only had 10% down! Please do yourself a service and call Carole as soon as you're ready to list or buy. You will be glad you did.

Due to an unfortunate family issue we had to vacate our home. We were on a tight schedule and…read morereally needed to find a place to move to right away. John was super helpful in finding the right place to move to in a very short time. Being newbies at home buying, John was there every step of the way to guide us, making sure that all the details were taken care of. John always communicated very clearly and concisely, each time confirming that we knew exactly what to do. Due to his help we were able to close and move in to our new place very quickly. Thank you John for all your help. We appreciate it greatly.

Great company to go with if you are looking to buy a new home. They are there for you form start to…read morefinish making sure everything is in order. They are also very personal and spend a lot of one on one time with you to find out what you really want in your new home. If I ever get around to buying again I would definitely use them again or recommend anyone looking to use them.

Ben Eger ignored black mold growing in bathroom and broke asbestos ceiling in my unit, toilet water…read moreleaking from unit above blamed it on other upstairs tenants and trying to make them use their insurance to fix when an inspector said it had been present for many months . Ben would know this with water cracks in wall and bubbling etc . But painted over. I have prior asthma which was well known, never fixed anything from basic requests shower door doesn't close, disposal not working to emergency repairs the extent of living there. Had to move as I was getting sick. They let us out of lease but charging us 1 week pro rated rent after not holding to his contractual obligations as a property.Only cares about the money as with every repair request he responded with trying to get rent or more money and not being accountable when we were withholding to try and do repairs since he neglected , the last thing we should have to worry about.Came down to him keeping a lot of our deposit when the ethic professional as well as humanitarian thing to do is care about your tenants health and work with them to fix problems and not be a slumlord and care about the money and nothing besides that. Glad we're out of the Kalia Inc Condos as Ben and ORPs have been horrible and I've never left a bad review before on a landlord or property company as well as the condo association and them work together to get people in there and flip units fast, despite the horrific conditions that they try and hide from potential tenants. Thank you for the " saving face and trying g to not loose business response to our review" however please look below and any potential customers can see our lease maintenance portal screen shots of the time that went by that nothing was fixed: you can't cover this one up Ben . It's not one word against another however proof in pictures.

Mr. Ben Eger was my Listing Agent for my condo in Honolulu, HI…read more In the beginning, I had purchased this property in 2023 with the goal of having my first property/home in Hawaii. He assisted me in finding this condo which was challenging given that I could not afford to purchase any high priced fee simple property. Having lost my past home to a short sale in California in 2011. Being able to purchase this condo on my own meant so much to me. It was not an easy process purchasing a condo for the first time. He helped me search for condos that were priced well which took some time and was challenging due to the heavy competition from other buyers who would purchase properties in cash which I didn't have the means to do. Mr Eger was very patient in diligently searching for fee simple condos within my price range.  One seller did not disclose, the history of a recently deceased resident. Mr Eger found out this history from reading the condo documents and informed me which I am relieved to have had that information making the decision not to purchase it. I would not have been happy to find out that fact after purchasing. There were so many condo docs to read through. Mr. Eger helped me every step of the way. Plus it was not easy having to travel to and from the mainland to view possible properties. After finally finding the right condo within my budget, I had a wonderful year in Hawaii. I unfortunately had to sell my condo due to financial concerns. Mr. Eger went over and beyond his duty as a Listing agent by helping me with repainting my 2 bdrm 1 bath condo. This was a very difficult task due to the left over popcorn ceiling on the edges of each room. He did a wonderful job when it was completed. As soon as, I informed Mr. Eger that I wanted to sell. He took pictures right away so that we could list it. The speed and efficiency of the process to getting the condo listed on April 8th, finding a buyer on April 9th and getting an offer on April 10th was within a matter of "3 days". I was truly amazed! I flew back from California on April 17 to pack up the items I had left , dispose and gave away furniture and other kitchen supplies. Mr. Eger dismantled my queen size wood bed frame in a record breaking 10 min. He then hired professional cleaners that very day I arrived and was able to show the condo the next day to the buyer on April 18th. He had thoroughly explained pricing strategies, contracts and addendums, meanwhile getting inspections done, ordering condo docs, negotiating with the buyer through their agent during the escrow process. All these detailed work behind the scenes were completed so smoothly and efficiently. It was quite impressive. He went above and beyond again, by helping me clear out remaining items from the paint job and helping to clear other remaining leftover items in the condo which was difficult due to a non-functioning elevator. So he had to walk up and down 3 flights of stairs. I'm sure I wasn't his only client during all this time. He literally works 16 hours a day 7 days a week. I know this because I would ask questions from early morning 8am and sometimes late at night (12 am). He manages his Real Estate and Property Management business , He also teaches a real estate course for future agents. Mr. Eger has so much heart and gives his "ALL" in his dedication towards his clients.

Working with Daniel and Cari Anne was an excellent experience. I was referred to them from one of…read moremy realtor friends who doesn't operate on Oahu, which was a shame in one sense because I love working with my friend, but I gained a team with these two and Taniguchi & Associates that was more than exemplary.  The wife and I toured a bunch of places the day we spent on island with Daniel and Cari Anne, they set up our showings in an order that made sense to flow with our schedules and traffic and while we did put bids on some of the places we saw in-person, ultimately, we ended up buying a unit that they did a video tour with us while we were back home in Kona. We were 100% confident after having seen places in-person with them that they knew exactly what we were looking for and when the perfect place went up for sale, I didn't feel the need to grab a flight as it would only delay the process. Also, while some realtors prefer if you use "their lender" Daniel never even brought this up as I've been using the same guy for over a decade and even he mentioned that Daniel was super easy to work with, very responsive and would love to do business with him in the future, which mirrors my experience. Daniel also has solid relationships with other realtors on island, but when it came to negotiating (the initial offer, the counter, the post inspection, everything), he was a true professional and did not let any personal friendships interfere with getting us some big wins, this guy knows what he is doing. No doubt, when the time comes, I know who I am going with, Daniel, Cari Anne, Taniguchi & Associates.

We needed to sell a very attractive and updated condo in Waikiki. After interviewing several realty…read morecompanies we chose Erik Taniguchi of Keller Williams. He was very easy to work with, respected our opinions, and understood the current market exceptionally well. And the company had good access to the higher end Japanese buyers market. Erik's staff worked with us to stage the unit very well and used an exceptional photographer. The listing looked great. We sold the unit within a week for full price. Erik resolved the various negotiation issues completely in our favor and closed the sale quickly with a full cash offer. We were completely satisfied with everyone in his office. We highly recommend Erik Taniguchi and his staff.