Thank you for this video! I just arrived today and am staying in an Airbnb for the first month until I can find a short term rental in Honolulu. Watching your videos has been very helpful in my process to move to Oahu 🙏🏻
VRBO/AirBB is furnished.. when you find the place you want to buy this home will dictate how you furnish it, and the cost of furnishing can be spread out over time.
Hi Peter, Happy Holidays! I have a couple of questions for you. And forgive me I may have asked you this already in a partial comment but i couldn't find it. If someone wanted to live on Oahu and do it by the most inexpensive way possible is that a scenario that is available there? Like renting a room in a house or an inexpensive studio, perhaps an Airbnb for awhile? I've heard with the cheapest rental studios there are lists of people waiting? What's with the really inexpensive condo's? Is that usually a trap for monthly high cost maintenance fees? I live in Seattle and make about $40,000 a year and find ways to make it here. I know Hawaii is still more expensive. How is tourism for employment is that getting better? Thank you. I'm sorry for all the questions.
@@livehawaii Hi Peter, great video. You explain it well. I have figured out that I am a spiritualist for sure. No doubt about it and yes I can live without the nice things and already do. What I would consider being like you is the focus on the surroundings and giving up a lot for that. After all isn't that most important? I live a simple life and have had to because it so expensive here. Drive an older car with inexpensive insurance and I'm good with it. I could care less about a nice car. Just need something that gets me around. But rent is so high in Seattle for a one bedroom (1100.00-1500.00) and as you said wages are higher here. My career is 40+years in the hotel industry. Non mgmt but most in supervisory positions during it. But obviously you nailed it. I make more here and am scraping by and there I would make less and expenses (including rent) would be more. So I get it. Your video is almost 3 years old so it's probably even more expensive. Has covid made it cheaper at all or tougher on locals? I'm 62 and retirement is not too far off. Probably still my favorite vacation spot and that's probably about it. Have you had people try it and succeed who had the same mindset? I assume they would have to be wealthy or perhaps have a decent paying job. Thank you Peter. I may be there in Oahu in Feb. I'll let you know 😎⛱🐠🏝🍍
I'm glad the video was helpful for you, though I am sorry to hear that the numbers don't seem to pencil out. It doesn't mean you can't make it work, but you just have to be prepared for what that might mean. As you come up to your retirement years you want to be planning for how you'll be working less, not working more and struggling harder. That all said, it can be done. You just have to be willing to undergo some pretty heavy consequences. It might be better just to keep enjoying vacations here. It's your life though, and only you are the one who can live it.
@@livehawaii You're a great man and I have always appreciated your kindness and invitation to learn about my favorite place to be as you help so many discover the possibility of living there. I am so happy for you that you experience the joy and can call it home. We'll see what happens. I need very little to be happy and would give up what I need to in order for it to happen.The beauty of it all surrounded by maybe helping others. Or the next best thing continuing to vacation there which I'm grateful for.. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me and being honest. Mahalo 🤠⛱🐠
the problem is if you don't have excellent credit it's so difficult to get approved in hawaii. At least in the mainland if you don't have a criminal record and credit is not excellent at least you can rent an apartment. Don't get why hawaii you can't even get approved is the question even with a job..
ah I see. thanks. Good catch! This was recorded in Jan '21. if the inventory stayed at zero there's no way it's still -10% price. What you see could have been due to vacation rentals getting killed due to COVID and a recovering. Supply is a leading indicator of price.
NOT great advice. :( They said: * If you can, buy a place. (Eye roll!) * Don't come w/pets * Zillow will start charging, not free svc anymore. * Landlords require deposit equal to one month's rent + rent. (Many require applicant's mo. income to be 3x the amount of their mo. rent.) * He suggested Airbnb (while looking for a rental). Do good research first. * And they suggested a STR. FYI, in 2019, Hawai'i laws were tightened against short-term rentals (STR)/vacation rentals. Too many illegal STR's; thankfully Gov't is cracking down. Do your research. Property MUST have PERMIT. And, please don't be part of the problem. This is less than mediocre advice for visitors, and definitely not helpful for residents/locals. The residents/locals of Hawai'i SHOULD be the priority for housing! We have 9,000 homeless, good families who are struggling (esp. after Covid shutdowns), and hard working kama'aina and Kanaka who are having trouble finding affordable rentals, fair housing and opportunities. Please have integrity and compassion and consider them before you suggest that others should come and take rentals that could go to a resident (if owners weren't allowed to be so greedy and pick a visitor and STR profits over the People of Hawai'i). 😢 Live Aloha.
Thank you for this video! I just arrived today and am staying in an Airbnb for the first month until I can find a short term rental in Honolulu. Watching your videos has been very helpful in my process to move to Oahu 🙏🏻
Can you make a segment on jobs? And what kinds are in demand.
Good idea!
VRBO/AirBB is furnished.. when you find the place you want to buy this home will dictate how you furnish it, and the cost of furnishing can be spread out over time.
This was posted at the PERFECT time! Questions I was planning to ask you today. Lol
Thank you!🙌🏼
Awesome!
Great video! Mahalo 🙏
You're welcome!
Hi Peter I am hoping to relocate to Oahu with my dogs from Malaysia and wondering how easy that would be getting jobs and visa .
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I have a cat. Oh well. I'll just daydream about Manitoulin Island here in Canada, then.
Hi Peter, Happy Holidays! I have a couple of questions for you. And forgive me I may have asked you this already in a partial comment but i couldn't find it. If someone wanted to live on Oahu and do it by the most inexpensive way possible is that a scenario that is available there? Like renting a room in a house or an inexpensive studio, perhaps an Airbnb for awhile? I've heard with the cheapest rental studios there are lists of people waiting? What's with the really inexpensive condo's? Is that usually a trap for monthly high cost maintenance fees? I live in Seattle and make about $40,000 a year and find ways to make it here. I know Hawaii is still more expensive. How is tourism for employment is that getting better? Thank you. I'm sorry for all the questions.
Watch the video called "can you afford it and is it worth it" for answers to your questions. let me know what you think
@@livehawaii Hi Peter, great video. You explain it well. I have figured out that I am a spiritualist for sure. No doubt about it and yes I can live without the nice things and already do. What I would consider being like you is the focus on the surroundings and giving up a lot for that. After all isn't that most important? I live a simple life and have had to because it so expensive here. Drive an older car with inexpensive insurance and I'm good with it. I could care less about a nice car. Just need something that gets me around. But rent is so high in Seattle for a one bedroom (1100.00-1500.00) and as you said wages are higher here. My career is 40+years in the hotel industry. Non mgmt but most in supervisory positions during it. But obviously you nailed it. I make more here and am scraping by and there I would make less and expenses (including rent) would be more. So I get it. Your video is almost 3 years old so it's probably even more expensive. Has covid made it cheaper at all or tougher on locals?
I'm 62 and retirement is not too far off. Probably still my favorite vacation spot and that's probably about it. Have you had people try it and succeed who had the same mindset? I assume they would have to be wealthy or perhaps have a decent paying job.
Thank you Peter. I may be there in Oahu in Feb. I'll let you know 😎⛱🐠🏝🍍
I'm glad the video was helpful for you, though I am sorry to hear that the numbers don't seem to pencil out. It doesn't mean you can't make it work, but you just have to be prepared for what that might mean. As you come up to your retirement years you want to be planning for how you'll be working less, not working more and struggling harder. That all said, it can be done. You just have to be willing to undergo some pretty heavy consequences. It might be better just to keep enjoying vacations here. It's your life though, and only you are the one who can live it.
@@livehawaii You're a great man and I have always appreciated your kindness and invitation to learn about my favorite place to be as you help so many discover the possibility of living there. I am so happy for you that you experience the joy and can call it home. We'll see what happens. I need very little to be happy and would give up what I need to in order for it to happen.The beauty of it all surrounded by maybe helping others. Or the next best thing continuing to vacation there which I'm grateful for.. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me and being honest. Mahalo 🤠⛱🐠
You have a really good spirit Mike and it's always a pleasure chatting
the problem is if you don't have excellent credit it's so difficult to get approved in hawaii. At least in the mainland if you don't have a criminal record and credit is not excellent at least you can rent an apartment. Don't get why hawaii you can't even get approved is the question even with a job..
Because there is a line of people with excellent credit in front of your waiting for that same unit
@@livehawaii yes I understand that but so is people with excellent credit here in the mainland so you don’t know 🤷♀️
So basically come without your pet buy a house or land and then bring your pet. Renting is out of the question.
Not out of the question but really tough
How could rental prices be down 10% when theres 0 inventory,. Doesnt make sense
Where did we say that prices are down 10%?
@@livehawaii the woman from Maui said it
Rental prices were down 10% but the people she talked to had 0 inventory
ah I see. thanks. Good catch! This was recorded in Jan '21. if the inventory stayed at zero there's no way it's still -10% price. What you see could have been due to vacation rentals getting killed due to COVID and a recovering. Supply is a leading indicator of price.
NOT great advice. :( They said:
* If you can, buy a place. (Eye roll!)
* Don't come w/pets
* Zillow will start charging, not free svc anymore.
* Landlords require deposit equal to one month's rent + rent. (Many require applicant's mo. income to be 3x the amount of their mo. rent.)
* He suggested Airbnb (while looking for a rental). Do good research first.
* And they suggested a STR. FYI, in 2019, Hawai'i laws were tightened against short-term rentals (STR)/vacation rentals. Too many illegal STR's; thankfully Gov't is cracking down. Do your research. Property MUST have PERMIT. And, please don't be part of the problem.
This is less than mediocre advice for visitors, and definitely not helpful for residents/locals.
The residents/locals of Hawai'i SHOULD be the priority for housing! We have 9,000 homeless, good families who are struggling (esp. after Covid shutdowns), and hard working kama'aina and Kanaka who are having trouble finding affordable rentals, fair housing and opportunities. Please have integrity and compassion and consider them before you suggest that others should come and take rentals that could go to a resident (if owners weren't allowed to be so greedy and pick a visitor and STR profits over the People of Hawai'i). 😢
Live Aloha.
Dude hawaii is an American state if we want to move there we are coming. Quit your whining