$325K Condo or $1.085M House? Two Amazing Opportunities

Today guys, we're going to be showing you two properties. A brand new listing, fresh to the market. A two bedroom, one bath on Koa'uka Loop in Pearl One. If you're interested in condo life. But if you're looking for more of a single family home, one of our friends is actually listing one in Wahiawa. A single family, four bedroom, two bath. I may or may not be hitting a backflip at the end of this video. I'm scared. You just have to see. First, we're going to take you into our clients. Freshly listed, freshly renovated, freshly painted, new appliances. I talked to the agent who sold the last one in here. I think ours might be like 20 square foot big or something. But basically same thing. They closed way more than we did. And we are listing at, or we just listed at. Just listed at 325. It's nice. Seller put the effort into it and then listed it aggressively. Go to coreteamhawaii.com. Fill out the contact form at the bottom. Scoop it up. But let's go take a look. Oh, it looks nice in here. This is my first time actually seeing the unit. Since all these renovations were done. We had our flooring guy come in. We hooked him up with our painter. One of our painters. It's the perfect balance of totally clean, ready to go now. You can definitely move in. But there's still a little bit of things here and there if you wanted to do more. We just went live. We also have some virtually staged photos to give you an idea of what you can do with this space. But today we wanted to be up here to give you kind of a sneak peek of what the view looks like from this unit. Because this is the 22nd floor. There's only one floor above us. So this is basically as high as you can get in the building. And you're definitely going to get the best views. Oh, look, you can see the planes flying in. Where? Right there. Oh, the Arizona Memorial. Even when the sunset's coming over here. Oh, yeah. You're still going to catch sunset. Yeah. This is my first time also seeing it with the new appliances. It looks good, right? Delivered. It was delivered yesterday. Two days ago. No calls yet though? Yes, actually. Oh, yeah. I did get a call last night. I have to call him back this morning. It was like, how come it's so low? It's really nice. You guys probably want multiple offers, right? So I'll call him back. So choke. Local word of the day. Choke. Meaning what? Plenty, which is also another local word. Meaning a lot of choke and plenty. Remember she used Hawaiian word to describe Hawaiian word. Oh, my God. We have complaints no matter what we buy in Hawaii, about we don't have enough space, right? Everybody knows that the living space is not so big here because we don't have a lot of space. The island is small. Therefore, our homes are smaller. So in condos, especially, a lot of people have complaints about not having enough storage. This entire wall. Four door closet. Is all storage space. This is big. 12, 14 feet or something. Even the closets in the bedroom are like wide. Bigger. Yeah. And, you know, last time I saw this room, personally, all their stuff in it, right? Yeah, this is like 20 plus years. And so it's just so nice and clean. One thing I wanted to point out is they renovated this bathroom. And if I remember correctly, the owner was telling me that there was a situation where this used to be a little more closed off, but this just makes it more open. Also, I always appreciate when someone chooses kitchen height, like standard 40 inch, not that 36 inch vanity. Nice new craft made. It's not cheap stuff. Good in here. Someone better scoop this up. Cool basketball court. Shoot some hoops. There's plenty of little green spaces to hang out. Have a little barbecue. Oh, this is cute. Should we go? Just enough. Nowadays, a lot of HOAs are going to play like a four foot pool, right? Feel how cool it is. I want to jump in. I know. It's been hot. Oh, it's nice. Actually, it's sunny on the pool deck. Quiet down here. A bunch of trees. And you know, the thing about this building over the other buildings, you're in the corner. Yeah. You're corner unit. Corner building. Yeah. You're the end of the cul-de-sac. And more flat. So if you're going to go walk yourself to down to earth for an acai bowl smoothie, or maybe some $78 mamaki tea leaves. I think they're like $20 for the bag. If you're going to go do that, you're basically pretty much flat the whole way. Yeah. Whereas some of the other buildings, you're going uphill. So this really is optimal. And how's the views? What'd you say? Golf course, mauka's, ocean, Pearl Harbor. I say mountain views. Mountain. Mountain views. Mountain. Ocean. Pearl Harbor. I was watching the rail too. That was kind of cool. The rails. Watch the rail go by. The rails peaceful and nice. And you know, aloha print far away. Arizona Memorial. Almost like airport. Because the plane is descending and it's only a couple hundred feet off the ground. We watch the plane come in. As opposed to being in like Makiki or something, where you can see like city line and then Waikiki and Ala Moana. Pearl Harbor ocean views are kind of underrated. Yeah. You don't swim in Pearl Harbor. Right. But the whole view of Pearl Harbor from Wai'ea, this Pearl Ridge, you know, Newtown, Waimali, Pearl Harbor views are underrated. Yeah. I agree. And on that note, let's go check out another one. A single family home in Wahiawa. Not sponsored. Not sponsored by, but. Hashtag sponsor me. Hawaiian maumaki tea. Hit me up because we're shouting you out on this video. First impressions. This got mahi written all over it. It's giving maumaki tea. Is maumaki tea out? It's giving maumaki tea. And then the neighbors, rather than cuss me out or whatever. If you watch the channel enough, you know what we're talking about. We're not going to show that video. The neighbors drove by and they're waving. And this home is a home that a friend of ours is selling. It's not artisting. I've seen him post stories of the kids riding bikes on the ground and. Yeah. They go, this is how they're supposed to grow up. I've seen him post those things. It's that type of neighborhood. I can see it. Is this a cul-de-sac? It's so slow. Like nobody's driving by. Cul-de-sac ish. Oh yeah. Yeah. So just like loops. There's no other reason to be here. Yes. Yeah. It's not a through street also. That's why it's super quiet. But anyways, first impressions of the house. I do like this. Normally like people don't want to have a porch in the front yard because they live not on this type of street. This is the type of street that I would like a front porch. I love a front porch. I would like a front porch and sit down. And I'm far enough away from the street to where I can wave, but not like have to talk to everybody. Or I can yell at the kids. I love a front porch. I was born in the South. Drinking sweet tea out of a mason jar and a rocking chair front porch. Like what cracker barrels. Hawaii can have that too. Hawaii can have a big porch. And it's got like a big front yard, like an actual front yard that you can sit on the porch and your kids can be playing around out here. I'm sitting. I'm lounging. I'm drinking my maki tea. I'm throwing shakas to the people walking by. Hey, watch out car. Move. Okay. Keep playing four square. No, it's nice though. Check it out inside. If you have a pet, you could put a fence. But I also don't feel like I need one. I was just going to say, I don't think I would. I don't know. I kind of like it. You like it open? I kind of like it open like this. Yeah. I feel like my kids can come in and out. Plus two and I have people come over. They can park over there. Park on the grass. Special occasions only. The neighbor keeps their yard nice too. I know. They have Monstera. They have Torch. They have all kinds. Torch? What is Torch? Just these red tea leaves. So what had happened was we walked in and Mahi and I both are like, oh, right? It's cute. It's bigger than I thought it was going to be. Since I moved into a bigger home, we host like card night and stuff. You were saying, right? You're like, you're so social. Like you're the host guy. I see everybody losing in spades right here to me. And then there's a whole nother den. I like the sunken den. Yeah. I like this because that is like my, I'm going to relax down there. We're going to like settle in. And up here is where we can like come in, kick our shoes off. Our kids come home, throw our homework down. We get all our stuff done in here. We have people come over. Our friends, our family have dinner over here. So. This is going to be messy. This is going to have. In my house. Laundry. Homework. And we're going to eat over here. And then it'll be clean for Thanksgiving. But it's a nice big space. And having that second level down there. With the living space, like it separates the energy in a good way. And it's big enough that you can do that. When things are smaller, you need the energy to all be in. You know, you don't want to segment. 200 square foot and 200 square foot. Nice big kitchen with a big island. 10 feet. Maybe it's like a tenno. There's not a sink or a stove or anything like that here. This is just like an island. Oh, look how big their pantry is. I wish I did my shelves like this. So I just put up the wire shelves because I know how to do it. Next time call my husband. You know what? I don't have too much pride. I would call your husband. He can help me put up shelves. I don't mind. This is big too. Well, there's a side door that goes out too. Just a different entry. Yeah, which I like because when my groceries are parked over here, can come out and walk directly to the kitchen. Not that it's that far to go in that way either. You guys have this at your house? You used to, right? Mine ripped right away. I don't know if it's Michelle's ring. This is higher quality. I have to get this one. Because we have a lot of flies. May not come with the house, but just something. Look, if you go to coreteamhawaii.com, score to the bottom, fill out the contact form. I don't like to make promises, but what I guarantee you is I'll negotiate that you get this screen with the sale. Guarantee. Special terms. Secure one. Guarantee. Stay tuned to the end. So this guy doesn't know is I'm going to interview him. I'm going to turn the camera around, give him this mic. So Kenji, you lived on Ko'ukalup before and right in this neighborhood. We also were talking about how there is a split AC in here and we just turned it on. It's pumping cool, but it was not hot. It's Wahiawa. It's wetter here. It's cooler. The elevation is a little bit higher. Similar to like a Mililani where, but a little bit more rainy because why is it more rainy? Is it, it's not higher than Mililani, is it? It is a little bit. The higher part of the island catches just like uh, what, Kaho'olawe or Rana'i, they put the trees, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All that to say, it's a lot cooler here, a lot more temperate and a lot of people are looking at like Ewa Beach, right? And you have to use your AC and you have, you like really want to have PV because you know you're going to be running your AC all the time. Some place like Wahiawa, it's nice to have, but I would not call it a must have. Wow, this is big. Oh yeah. What, you like say if you can pass my guard? No, I don't even know what that means. That's what you're talking about. Oh no, the word guard is used in Jiu Jitsu. I've been trying to rehab my elbow. I have tennis elbow and I have golf elbow. And I got to the point where- What's golf elbow? Golf elbow is inside. Tennis elbow is outside. This is big and the yard is big too. Still like nine years old and under can still have football game out there. Indoor laundry. Oh, there's like a trampoline out there too. Yeah, there's still a trampoline. I have quasi indoor laundry. I have the Hawaii version where my laundry is in my garage. And so at least it's not outside. This is like a primary. Observe the curtain blowing in the wind. Oh yeah, breezy. Because it is very breezy. Yeah, it's coming here. You see the tea leaves rustling. So you didn't look up the listing prior. What do you think the square footage of the lot is? Seven? Seven. 7,000 maybe? 7,200. Because the house is big already and it's like a sort of a single level in that you're not like stacked up. You can walk down into the lower level but it's not like a two-story home where a lot of the square footage is split up between two different levels. So the fact that this home is 2,100 square feet and there's still all this yard. I was like, I didn't expect the yard to be as big as it is for how big the home actually is. Very generalized average for like a older single family home in like a Mililani or a Wahiawa where we're at right now. A lot of the times they're like 1,500 square feet and then the lot size is maybe 5,000. That's like the average size for these age of homes, this age of community. So this is like big home on a big lot. If you were to get this size home, this size lot and it were a Mililani mauka. 1.5? 1.6 maybe? And then if you were to get this size home, this size lot in Mililani townside, depending on the home, et cetera, but at least 1.3. Definitely do not sleep on Wahiawa. There are a lot of gems up here that are just super cute homes and people just kind of bypass the area and don't really give it much thought. Well, you gotta pick your pockets though. Yes, for sure. Not definitely. Don't pick pockets. You have to choose your pockets. Yeah, choose your pockets. And this is a nice pocket. Yes. So it's a non-HOA community like how MTA is a big HOA community. Mililani Town Association. So it's very homogenized and it's very like one thing. Wahiawa is one of those communities where you can get a street like this that is beautiful and it's non-HOA, but that just doesn't mean that every pocket will look like this. So luckily for this one, it's on a street where it looks like people take care of their things and it's quiet and you know, everybody's grass is mowed. I love a non-HOA nice street. Like that's everybody's dream, right? Like a non-HOA, but everybody take care. Look, look the shingles in this roof. Look the shingles in that roof. All nice, all nice. Look their yard. Wahiawa is definitely a character, check, charm, check. It's that type of community. She go backyard, back foot. Just go in the backyard. Oh, you couldn't go on the trampoline. Why, what? No, go, go with your tennis and golf elbow. You don't need arms to do back flips. Try it, go. So we have the front door out there. We have a side door down from like the lower living space. There's another door on the other side by the kitchen that we showed you. So lots of ways to get in and out and so you kind of flow outside of the house here. The yard is big. I mean, there's a big trampoline on the side there. I feel like I like it the way that it is because if it's me, I'm like banana trees. I'm doing ginger, all of that. You can plant any kind of tropicals in Wahiawa and it will survive because it rains enough up here. I might even put like maybe a deck out here. Make a little bit more outdoor living space. Maybe I put a deck out here, another lanai. Plenty big for you to come and host people outside. You want to pop up an easy up tent and have a barbecue or whatever you can. Oh, gazebo is probably better. A gazebo here would be cool. I was thinking, oh, like a deck or a lanai in this pocket over here. I feel like maybe gazebo better. Gazebo this side. Yeah, over here, like a detached something away from the house. And then what would you do over here then? Or the gazebo there. Gazebo there to keep this run open. Yeah, I feel like this is just a big, a nice big space like this. Don't get crazy. You were saying how the kids all play, whatever, swimming pool, gazebo. There's so much grass here. You could like put a sprinkler out or something. Don't put a pool. Okay, slip and slide then. Slip and slide is fine. We could do a slip and slide. If you look in Wahiawa too, it's one of, probably because the lot sizes are a little bit bigger than they are in like Mililani. Yeah. They do have a lot of like fruit trees, lychee trees. What kind of tree is that? I don't know. Avocado. Is it? It is. I can see an avocado up there. Can you? It's the long oblong looking ones. Top middle. Avocado trees, the stuff that you see more per capita in Wahiawa than you do in like a lot of other communities. Mango trees, lychee, probably like only lychee. On Oahu, Wahiawa is the only lychee neighborhood. You know what I like? I like a wooden, a good wooden fence. You guys never really grew up with wooden fence, yeah? No, chain link only. Chain link or some kind of concrete or vinyl. Yeah, yes. But like on the mainland, they would have these kind of fences all the time. You know where else had this kind of fence? Remember Home Improvement? Wilson. Yes. Wilson was like this on that kind of fence. I also like how high this fence is. There's a lot of privacy back here. Like I'm not looking into the windows of any of my neighbor's houses. Yeah. I like that. And usually you have to accomplish that by like putting a bunch of like dense vegetation up. Oh, you would anyway. I mean. You're not gonna be able to see the fence when you're done with it. Yeah, very cute. I'm into it. I like it. The person who is like attracted to Wahiawa is gonna like this house. Oh yeah, 100%. This is like a Wahiawa banger. Without going to like Royal Palm Drive, pushing, you know, well into 1.5 Wahiawa, which is a crazy thing. This is top tier of the 90% of anything, 95% of anything you're gonna see in Wahiawa, I think. 1.085 is the list price on this. Before we came in and we knew nothing of the house. I was like, hmm. We haven't done any analysis. You were like, is it ambitious? Maybe. But also from the front of the house, you cannot tell how far back it goes. How much backyard. Yeah. How much the house does. What all the different things that you can accomplish in the house. Like I would even make this like put another door down here, make like mother-in-law suite down the line. So you could make another entrance here and throw a kitchen right over there if you want. If you want to make a second unit all day. And there is a new Hawaii law that allows for triplexes. So Kenji, you lived on Koʻukerup before. A little bit. You know, you were saying you weren't taking advantage of walking to down to earth, going to the mall. You were doing those things. This was a different time of life. Pregnant wife with one newborn. So you know what I mean? You're at home a lot. The inconvenient part was in where I was living, like parking. No, I always think are great parking. Super competitive on the street. We had our one spot. But then walking was really from the parking to the unit. Now I would be walking. Like once I started walking with the girls. Yeah. When where we were living and they're walking age. Oh yeah. Well, all day would be walking. Pearl Ridge has, I think, planet fitness. F45, food. Every kind of eating option you want. This stage in life for sure. Movie theaters. Yeah. The good part is I was for work. I was still doing weddings. Oh. And so the location, I was to any venue on the island. 20 minutes. Quick. Yeah. And then coming home too was quick. Oh yeah. Because H3, boom. Wherever I got to go. Right there. The heart of the Pacific. The heart of Te Fiti. How about this street? When we plugged in the address, you go, oh. Oh yeah. The kind live right over there. You spend a lot of time right here. And so when I told you that this owner would post pictures of the kids playing and all that sort of stuff made sense to you, right? It's true. The people I know, family oriented. Yeah. So you're playing with your cousins and the neighbors and the neighbor's cousins. Yeah. And you know all of them by name and they all get bikes. There's a Gulch over here. Just that way. It's just like what you expect for like, think Sandlot. Let's go build a tree house. Think, you know, one of them. It. Without this horror stuff. Without the horror stuff. No, no. It's not Sandlot or It. No. It starts as a boy's going on an adventure. Oh. And then they run into Supernatural, so. Anyway. You're doing great, Kenji. Yeah, I know, right? Kenji's not used to this part. Adventure. Let's put it that way. There's a lot of nature right there for that kind of like adventurous kid and a group of kids. Like, let's go play outside. It's a play outside neighborhood. Well, looking at when Mahe asked, is this a cul-de-sac? And then I pulled up the map. Like all this right here. So this is the kind where you can tell your kids go because like a car is not going to hit you. Or, you know what I mean? And I will say I came here maybe three, four Halloweens ago. Popping. Yeah. Like one of those surviving, if not thriving pockets of Halloween activity. Which is a sign of the neighborhood, right? A good Halloween is a good sign. Everybody was out. Choke kids. And not like, oh, I just put on one hat and now I'm this. Like people going all out. Effort. We've talked about Wahiawa. You know, there's pros and cons. If you want to live in the middle of the island and have some good food and coffee, this is the spot. Exit 8 is the one. We talked about Kapolei being one like foodie town. But Wahiawa is... Mexican. Local food. I don't trust you guys with Dong Yang. I don't trust you guys with that one. Get legacies over here. Let's put it that way. Dots. Don't want the... We went there in the video. Keelani or something. Keelani. Oh, brownies. Keelani brownies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, get legacies over here. Legacy brands. Well, and now there's new like surfers coffee. What's the other like hippie coffee? Bizia. And then there's another one. Because it's Wahiawa unlike Mililani is unincorporated. So never have like the city planners of Mililani or of Wahiawa like made that shopping center for Target to be the anchor store. So you end up with a character and a funk and opportunities that you just kind of have in Mililani. Have you been to Fa King? Fa Noodles King. There's a Fa King in Wahiawa. Is it good? It's good. Yeah. You can have that name and I'll be good. I want to give a few shout outs. So shout outs to Jenny who I saw pulling up to the condo that we shot in the first part of this video. Shout outs to Jennifer and Dean. I want to work with you guys. So I will see you again this afternoon and I hope that we work together. Shout outs to Jenny because we were chatting. She goes, I don't see Kenji much. You guys got to show Kenji more. So Jenny, here you go. I enjoyed them. You do it. I'll film it. I used to could. Used to could. Used to could and can are two different things. Very different. Even should different from used to could. He's gonna fly over onto that corrugated iron shed. Bruh, I get him, you know. I'm scared. Nah. I'm not going. I can. But I'm not going. That's what they all say. You're giving Ace Ventura coming out of the Rhino right now. You know, actually, probably my earliest memory of your brother. At Irima, they had like the trampolines for PE. And you got to play popcorn where a person in the middle got a ball out. You know how you launch the guy? Yeah. And then the teachers are like, hey, not too much. Not too much. I go launch. It might have been Thai. I don't know. Somebody. But I end up kind of flying off. And my legs go through the spring. Leg. Spring, spring. Leg. And everyone's. And then when they realized I was OK, they were like. And Thai was like. Yeah, trampo match. No. I mean, you forget trampolines and 10-year-olds barely match.