The Hawaii Team Real Estate Blog
Saving Green with Green Upgrades
The demand for retrofitted green homes is only growing while the green home industry is busy developing new ways to save from every angle. Start Your Green Home Upgrade Here Before you can improve your home’s efficiency, you’re going to have to know where your home is...
National Homeownership Month | June 2019
In June we recognize National Homeownership Month to celebrate the families who make their dreams come true by owning their own home. We also reflect on the impact that owning a home has on household wealth and the broader economic health of the United States. There...
Welcome To The World of Non-QM Lending
What is Non-QM Lending? It stands for non-qualified mortgage lending. Next obvious question is… what would be a non-qualified mortgage? It’s basically a type of loan that doesn’t meet all the criteria of a standard loan or guideline. Follow this bouncing ball: Most...
Why Selling Your Own Home May Not Be A Good Idea
Everyone at one time has thought, “I will sell my own home, I don’t need a Realtor and I could save thousands.” And while that does happen and sounds enticing there are some serious reasons why this might not be a good idea. These are in no particular order and...
Can’t Find A Home?
Can’t Find A Home? By Dan Polimino Where Would I Go? The number one complaint we hear in real estate is, “I would sell my home, but I don’t know where I would go!” This is because of the incredibly low inventory of re-sale homes in and around the Big Island....
It’s Time To Sell
It’s Time To Sell By Dan Polimino As you are reading this we are 30 days away from the start of the selling season. The Spring/Summer selling season is the best time of year to sell your home and it seems each year the season starts earlier and earlier. Remember...
How Will A Global Meltdown Affect Mortgage Rates?
Hey Everyone, just got this email from my friend Andy Jorgensen at Guaranteed Rate Mortgage. Looks like it’s a BUYING opportunity based on low interest rates and falling homes prices. Time to move on this. Call us 808-913-0899. "Good morning! Stocks are getting...
Maximizing Your Home’s Value
Whether you’re thinking about selling or not, don’t you just love seeing your Zestimate go up each month? Even though this isn’t a very accurate measurement of a home’s value, it definitely brings a smile to my face when it shoots up 10% because my neighbor just sold...
There Is Hope for Your Marriage
There Is Hope for Your Marriage By Dan Polimino Many years ago, you may have read my first columns in the Post and then my blogs on our website thehawaiiteam.com. Over the years, you may recall that during the week of Christmas, I do not write about business. I...
It’s the Holidays and your house is still on the market!
Ok, you did not sell your home this summer or fall and now it’s the Holidays and your house is still on the market, what do you do? Let’s take a multi-prong approach with some bullet points below that might help you. First, do you need to sell, or do you want to sell?...
Too Many Lender Problems
It’s been a great summer of selling, but I am amazed at the number of lender problems. Some of these loan issues are self-inflicted wounds by the buyers themselves and some are a result of people using fly by night lenders. Fly by Night Lenders Let’s...
You Can Buy Your Next Home Before You Sell Your Current Home!
It’s not news that inventory is a problem for home buyers in and around Denver. As such, most people won’t put their home on the market until they know where they are going. It’s a chicken or the egg scenario because you can’t find a buyer for a home if someone...
