Why did it take so long for the news media to report that the CEO of Certified Management, one of the state’s largest property management firms, has been fired after she reportedly stole upwards of $50,000 from several condominiums managed by her company. Toni Floerke has admitted taking the money, according to a March 16 [...]
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A letter from a Kauai condominium owner to his state senator is calling attention to “a serious flaw in Hawaii law that is causing unfairness and hardship to condominium owners throughout the state.” When condominium owners get into financial trouble and stop paying mortgages and maintenance fees, it can often take years for the foreclosure [...]
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Today’s Star-Advertiser features a condo story by Andrew Gomes on the front of the “Money” section (“Bad plumbing? Moana Pacific’s possible waterline problem has officials at odds and residents worried”). The first few paragraphs establish the tone of the story: Behind the reflective glass windows of the twin Moana Pacific condominium towers in Honolulu, either [...]
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A Colorado television station is telling the story of another management lapse at the state Department of Transportation and Hawaiian Airlines. According to KUSA-TV, a Colorado couple celebrating their 50th anniversary were threatened with arrest and locked out of the Lihue Airport at midnight on Monday after their Hawaiian flight home was delayed for hours [...]
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During his “State of the City” speech last week, Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle defended the planned rail system as a defense against sprawl and urbanization of other parts of the island. Here’s the key paragraph that caught my attention: Rail will ‘keep the country, country’. It will ‘keep Kailua, Kailua’. It will ‘keep East Honolulu, [...]
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I have a friend with a problem. She says AT&T, which provides her iPhone service, has made a mistake which is now impacting her credit rating. And the company’s customer service has proved to be a maze filled with false turns, dropped calls, errors, and misinformation. I can appreciate her problem, which I’ll explain in [...]
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The following February 1, 2012 email from Jay April, president and CEO of Akaku: Maui Community Television, to DCCA Kealii Lopez challenges Oceanic Time Warner’s unilateral moves of several public access channels from analog to digital signals. Digital signals take much less bandwidth than analog, so the company can create several digital channels in place [...]
So what happens to all the foreclosed properties we read about in the news? Three foreclosed homes located behind the Kaaawa post office were recently bought by a real estate group specializing in buying and “flipping” depressed properties. The same group is already targeting two more homes in the neighborhood. Get Tubed LLC, owned by [...]
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