I'm a plumber on Oahu and I am working on these places already. They use cpvc for the pipe. Cpvc is extremely brittle which means you will be calling a plumber alot. And if the plumbing is bad I would assume the building materials are cheap. Don't buy these homes unless you have a lot of money.
This is a lot of development. Is there infrastructure to support this growth? This looks like the ramp-up to the Californication of Oahu. It happened in Seattle. The freeways in the Seattle area were not designed for the spike in migration from California and elsewhere. The town went from a down-home, blue-collar vibe to frou-frou. Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon, and even the TV show Frazier stoked the rapid development and crowding.
Looking minute 1:29 garbage laying around get a home inspector. 1000 bucks worth it. Every professional real estate agent should have quality insurance specialist. Home is your investment.
"So if you're going to watch the game outside, carports are better for that." I don't understand why people buy a perfectly good house and want to do all that outside, with the noise and adding to it. Having lived in a house with single-wall and single-pane windows, I would avoid it unless you like to hear noise.
I love Hawaii and I’m team core team 100%. When I see these new construction neighborhoods, I just don’t see Hawaii at all. My opinion, that’s all. Just something about these new neighborhoods feels aloha’less and aloha is what makes Hawaii!
Doesn't even have any yards (for those new construction)Turning into California. All these new built homes costing well over 500k but have no yard. We ended up going. For a an older built home from the 70s with a bigger yard lot size and a pool with space between houses. Paid about a little over 535k but we'll worth it. Sacrificed a 3 car garage for a 2 and rv/boat access
Problem is, these homes are not going to be affordable at all for Hawaiians. Especially those who have been moved out of the homes they rented that were then turned in to Air BnB etc. So many homeless. I lived there on Oahu as a kid in the late 70s . It's sad to see what's happening there with the afore mentioned and the Maui tragedy.🤙🙏
It’s absolutely wild to me that these houses are only available to investors/cash buyers. Oahu is already suffering with housing as it is. It should be criminal to ensure more rent seekers to sit on homes in Hawai’i. It makes me so sad. If you want to buy a home here, you should have to live in it.
Only one specific area in Hoopili is that’s at and it’s because underwriters don’t feel secure approving lending until sole legal stuff is sorted out with a vendor.
I lived on old Ewa Beach Road because I wanted to live among the locals and be able to walk across the street from the beach at sunrise and sunset. For mainlanders, the newer Ewa is more like the suburban style new development in Orange County in the 1970's. It is all good and as you suggest, just a matter of preference for all buyers.
I’m not a fan of DR Horton architecture work. The housing designs on the inside just don’t make sense especially when they say 2500 ft.² and you walk in and it’s a box. The outside look nice but the inside I’m not a fan.
I'm a plumber on Oahu and I am working on these places already. They use cpvc for the pipe. Cpvc is extremely brittle which means you will be calling a plumber alot. And if the plumbing is bad I would assume the building materials are cheap. Don't buy these homes unless you have a lot of money.
Old homes were built better
This is a lot of development. Is there infrastructure to support this growth? This looks like the ramp-up to the Californication of Oahu. It happened in Seattle. The freeways in the Seattle area were not designed for the spike in migration from California and elsewhere. The town went from a down-home, blue-collar vibe to frou-frou. Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon, and even the TV show Frazier stoked the rapid development and crowding.
Looking minute 1:29 garbage laying around get a home inspector. 1000 bucks worth it. Every professional real estate agent should have quality insurance specialist. Home is your investment.
"So if you're going to watch the game outside, carports are better for that."
I don't understand why people buy a perfectly good house and want to do all that outside, with the noise and adding to it.
Having lived in a house with single-wall and single-pane windows, I would avoid it unless you like to hear noise.
I love Hawaii and I’m team core team 100%. When I see these new construction neighborhoods, I just don’t see Hawaii at all. My opinion, that’s all. Just something about these new neighborhoods feels aloha’less and aloha is what makes Hawaii!
I feel the same way! It is soooo ugly
Doesn't even have any yards (for those new construction)Turning into California. All these new built homes costing well over 500k but have no yard. We ended up going. For a an older built home from the 70s with a bigger yard lot size and a pool with space between houses. Paid about a little over 535k but we'll worth it. Sacrificed a 3 car garage for a 2 and rv/boat access
Problem is, these homes are not going to be affordable at all for Hawaiians. Especially those who have been moved out of the homes they rented that were then turned in to Air BnB etc. So many homeless. I lived there on Oahu as a kid in the late 70s . It's sad to see what's happening there with the afore mentioned and the Maui tragedy.🤙🙏
Derek driving a Subaru? I am guessing it's a company car. I don't know why, but I've always assumed Derek is a Bimmer guy.
😆😆 actually bought a new Nissan Frontier a 2 days after this was filmed.
It’s absolutely wild to me that these houses are only available to investors/cash buyers. Oahu is already suffering with housing as it is. It should be criminal to ensure more rent seekers to sit on homes in Hawai’i. It makes me so sad. If you want to buy a home here, you should have to live in it.
Only one specific area in Hoopili is that’s at and it’s because underwriters don’t feel secure approving lending until sole legal stuff is sorted out with a vendor.
Can you please answer, do you sell properties on other islands?
We work on outer islands. Let me know how we can help.
With all these new homes coming in…. Schools zones… Campbell high school needs to up scale it self…. Unlike back in the day.
Are new home construction kept secret? It the mainland they kept low key and subdivisions randomly come up driving around residential roads.
I lived on old Ewa Beach Road because I wanted to live among the locals and be able to walk across the street from the beach at sunrise and sunset. For mainlanders, the newer Ewa is more like the suburban style new development in Orange County in the 1970's. It is all good and as you suggest, just a matter of preference for all buyers.
I’m not a fan of DR Horton architecture work. The housing designs on the inside just don’t make sense especially when they say 2500 ft.² and you walk in and it’s a box. The outside look nice but the inside I’m not a fan.
Ewa….old school!
I’m a realtor in Reno NV. I’ll send anyone your way if they are buying there. 🤙🏽
Don’t we are overly populated as is
Any ocean views in old Ewa?