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        <title>Aloha Tony's Oahu Real Estate Blog</title>
        <link>http://www.alohatony.com/blog/hawaii-real-estate-advice/</link>
        <description>Honolulu Hawaii real estate updates and information for both buyers and sellers from one of Hawaii's top real estate agents.</description>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Turning the Tide in Hawaii's Real Estate Market</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
&nbsp;I've been saying for that last 3 years that the market bottomed in early 2009, and that prices would begin to rise soon.&nbsp; 

To illustrate that this did occur and that the market turn is now known as fact, I've created this infographic below with numerous statistics that verify the Hawaii Real Estate market has been on the upswing for over 2 years now. 

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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:23:03 -1000</pubDate>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Hawaii is #2 - States Where the Most People Would Like to Live</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The Harris poll released their latest results and found that Hawaii is the 2nd most desired State to live in.&nbsp; 

From their site: &quot;Notwithstanding
 its economic and political problems, more Americans would like to live 
in California than in any other state. For the seventh time in a row 
since 2002 California tops the list of states where the most people 
would like to live if they did not live in their own states. The next 
most popular states are Hawaii, Florida, Colorado, Arizona... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:28:24 -1000</pubDate>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Can you deduct your rental property losses from other active income?</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Many people don't realize that you cannot deduct losses from a rental property unless you can meet one of the criteria in these seven tests below. Many real estate investors meet the
&quot;materially&quot; participating rule by one or more of the first three tests, but any of the 7 will do:

1. Managing and operating the rental real estate activity for more than 500 hours during the year; or

2.
Doing substantially all the work required to manage and operate the
rental real estate during the... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:27:14 -1000</pubDate>
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            <link>http://www.alohatony.com/blog/this-is-it-interest-rates-are-about-to-jump-probably.html</link>
            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>This is it, interest rates are about to jump.  Probably.</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Next week the government will stop propping up the
mortgage-backed securities market.&nbsp; I posted about this a few weeks ago, citing the article in the Washington Post&nbsp;
which explains that the government is about to stop spending billions of dollars buying its own bonds.&nbsp; The
Treasury spent about $220 billion, and the Fed pledged $1.25 trillion,
the largest foray the central bank has made into the markets
since the onset of the crisis, which they brought upon themselves through the &quot;... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:37:12 -1000</pubDate>
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            <link>http://www.alohatony.com/blog/case-study-for-spiderable-idx.html</link>
            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Case Study for Spiderable IDX</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
As I mentioned on Geek Estate Blog, I've decided to do a case study to 
determine the effects of having a spiderable IDX on my site. Since my 
site doesn't have a lot of authority just yet, I've asked Morgan Carey 
of Real 
Estate Webmasters to show me data from other clients' sites (with 
their permission), so I could see how sites with high authority do with 
their spiderable IDX.

I had Analytics installed at the same time as my spiderable IDX, so 
unfortunately, I can't show you a ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:44:25 -1000</pubDate>
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            <link>http://www.alohatony.com/blog/hawaii-is-the-2nd-happiest-state-in-america.html</link>
            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Hawaii is the 2nd happiest state in America</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
I have no idea how Louisiana beat us, but Hawaii is the second happiest state in the Union, according to a recent study published by the UK&rsquo;s University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US. 

They were looking at the happiness levels of one million US citizens to discover which
are the best and worst states in which to live in the United States.&nbsp;

&quot;The state-by-state pattern&nbsp;is of interest in itself.&nbsp; But it also
matters scientifically.&nbsp; We wanted to&nbsp;... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:54:38 -1000</pubDate>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>America's top 10 best tap water - Honolulu is #6</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
I saw an interesting article on the best and worst tap water in American cities.&nbsp; I've always thought that our tap water was pretty darn good, but it's nice to know for sure. 

Cities with the best water:


Arlington, TX

Providence, RI

Fort Worth, TX

Charleston, SC

Boston, MA

Honolulu, HI

Austin, TX

Fairfax County, VA

St. Louis, MO

Minneapolis, MN


The article says that,&nbsp;&quot;Experts still agree &nbsp;that drinking tap is preferable to drinking bottled water. Bottled water ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:07:15 -1000</pubDate>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Please steal this house in Hawaii Kai</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
I just listed this beautiful ocean view house in upper Hahaione, one of Hawaii Kai's most beautiful neighborhoods. Just a year ago this home was listed for over $1million, and it is now on the market for $700,000 as a short sale.&nbsp; 

&nbsp;While short sales take a long time to close, this is definitely a house worth waiting for.&nbsp; It's basically the only house in Hawaii Kai at this price and size. &nbsp;

&nbsp;The house has a great ocean view from the large front lanai, and you can see... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:19:09 -1000</pubDate>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>64% of the Realtors on this island did 1 transaction or less in 2008.</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
I saw an article in the Star regarding the drop in number of Hawaii Realtors in 2009. The article highlights the total number of Hawaii real estate agents that haven't renewed their licenses this year, but that's not what I love about it.

Sure, &quot;the Hawaii Real Estate Commission saw a 21 percent decline in license renewals this year,&quot; but that's no big deal.

The part I love is this - &quot;Of all Honolulu board Realtors, 44 percent made no sales, and&nbsp; 18 percent made only one s... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:49:29 -1000</pubDate>
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            <author>alohatony@gmail.com (Tony Kawaguchi, RA)</author>
            <title>Mainland lenders will sabotage Hawaii real estate purchase, on accident</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
It's happened to me too many times to count now. When buyers come to Hawaii from the mainland, they often want to use the lender they are familiar with from their home state. Some want to use a lender they found on the internet.

Nearly every time I have worked with a lender from mainland, something has gone wrong. The last time was a purchase of $775k in Kaneohe, a beautiful tropical retreat purchased by a great young couple from the mainland. Their lender, who happened to be from New York and... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:02:20 -1000</pubDate>
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