Maui 'Hot List' Hulahan

Most buyers meet their realtor through a few emails and maybe a Zoom call. When our viewers meet Jon in person, they already know how we work, and this week Jon sat down with several of them. Ready for that conversation yourself? Book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Call or text: [PHONE] | Email: [EMAIL] Jon spent this week meeting viewers who have been watching for months. They already...

Retire With Maui | Hosted by Jon Brath + Daniel Rude dreams2REALITY Hawaii - Real Broker Jon Brath | RS-76551 | 808-268-4262 | jon@d2rhawaii.com Daniel Rude | RS-79734 | 808-495-1708 | daniel@d2rhawaii.com The people have spoken on Maui, and Bill 88 is back in the spotlight. Why does a vacation rental condo pay more property tax than a hotel, and will hotel-zoned units that are really second homes...

Retire With Maui | Hosted by Jon Brath + Daniel Rude dreams2REALITY Hawaii - Real Broker Jon Brath | RS-76551 | 808-268-4262 | jon@d2rhawaii.com Daniel Rude | RS-79734 | 808-495-1708 | daniel@d2rhawaii.com When you sell in Hawaii, the state can hold back 7.25% of your sale price at closing, and foreign sellers can have 22.25% held back once FIRPTA is added. Most sellers don't find out until the cl...

Off-island owners pay far more in Maui property taxes than local residents do. As vacation rentals phase out, who picks up that difference? Weighing how these changes affect your Maui plans? Book a free Aloha Vision Quest with Jon and Daniel: bit.ly/avq-booking Jon checks in from a cool, rainy West Maui morning while Daniel joins from the cornfields of Iowa, and this episode covers a lot of ground...

A Hana compound on 7.76 acres has come down from 3.2M to 2.1M after 540 days on the market. Luxury on Maui is still finding its price, and this week we show you where it's landing. Curious where your budget lands in this market? Book an Aloha Vision Quest with Jon and Daniel: bit.ly/avq-booking This week's hot list looks closely at the upper end of the Maui market. Mahana Estates came down 500K, a...

Retire With Maui | Hosted by Jon Brath + Daniel Rude dreams2REALITY Hawaii - Real Broker Jon Brath | RS-76551 | 808-268-4262 | jon@d2rhawaii.com Daniel Rude | RS-79734 | 808-495-1708 | daniel@d2rhawaii.com Earlier this year, the Maui County Council seemed open to carving some condos out of the vacation rental phase-out. With each new resolution, that window is looking smaller. Trying to decide bet...

Two wealth advisors reached out to us on behalf of their clients in the past two weeks. That felt like the right moment to talk plainly about who Maui makes sense for right now. Wondering where you fit? Book an Aloha Vision Quest call with Jon and Daniel: bit.ly/avq-booking Most agents will tell you it’s always a great time to buy on Maui. Jon sees a more nuanced picture. Some condo complexes have...

Retire with Maui Hosted by Jon Brath + Daniel Rude Maui condo sales jumped to 2,310 in 2021, then slid to 733 by 2024. Jon pulls up the real numbers year by year and shows what that slide means for anyone buying or selling here today. Wondering where your plans fit in this market? Book a free Aloha Vision Quest and we’ll talk it through together: bit.ly/avq-booking Aloha Hulahans, this one is a sh...

Waiting for a 2008-style crash on Maui? Jon sold foreclosures through the Great Recession, and he explains why today's market runs on a completely different set of rules. Sorting out where your Maui plans fit in this market? Book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Jon cut his teeth in Arizona during the Great Recession, first in new home sales and then as a buyer specialist on a heavy REO t...

Two hotel zoned condos a few minutes apart in Kihei can be $200,000 apart in price, with HOA fees that differ by double. On Maui, every complex plays by its own rules. Want help sorting out which complexes actually fit your plans? Book a free Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Aloha Hulahans, it’s myth-busting Friday, and today Jon and Daniel take on one of the most common assumptions buyers b...

Daniel's dad just floated selling the truck. Jon's surfing buddy is still riding shortboards deep into his seventies. Every new season of life asks what you're willing to let go of, and a Maui retirement asks that question louder than most. Figuring out how much Maui fits into your next season? Book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking This hump day edition of the Maui Hot List opens on life...

The condo meeting minutes you receive in a Maui deal are often months old. On our Kuleana listing, the most recent approved minutes were from May, in a deal happening in October. Thinking about buying a Maui condo and want to talk through what to look for first? Book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Aloha Hulahans, Jon is coming to you from an open house at Valley Isle Resort and Daniel i...

We listed two condos on the same day. The cheaper one is hotel zoned, has an ocean view, and is still sitting at $465K, while the apartment zone unit at $699K got an accepted offer over asking. If you want to know which kind of Maui condo fits your plan before you buy, book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking It’s Aloha Friday, and Jon and Daniel start with a market contradiction you’d never...

This one looks a little different. We pre-recorded Wednesday's episode on a Monday afternoon in Napili because Danny is flying back to Minnesota, and it turned into one of the most honest conversations we've had on the show. After four years in Hong Kong, Danny is deciding where home comes next. Maui, where he lived for five or six years and where our business is rooted. Minnesota, where his famil...

On Friday we got tangled up in Bill 9, Bill 88, and a stack of resolutions, so today Daniel lays the whole thing out on one timeline. Across three resolutions, 80 of the 104 properties on the Minatoya list are now recommended for H-3 or H-4 zoning. That leaves Jon asking the obvious question: why spend years on this only to land almost back at square one? In this episode - How we got here: Bill 9...

Maui County Council just sent 32 properties back to the Planning Commission with a recommendation to keep vacation rentals, and the list skips some of the most obvious candidates. Papakea has a front desk and hotel zoning. Three fully leasehold complexes met the stated criteria. None of them made it. Wondering where your Maui plans land in all this? Book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking H...

A property manager took care of a Maui condo for a full year, then called us asking for the lockbox code. That moment showed us the gap between getting the job and doing the job well. Want a team that stays with you after the contract is signed? Book your Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking On Today's show we share why we stopped referring clients to one Maui property management company. The li...

After roughly 36 hours without power and two days of spotty cell service, the lights are back on here in West Maui, and Jon and Daniel are recording again. Before the listings, we talk story about what the outage actually felt like: warm nights with no AC, cold showers, a dark Napili Plaza market with the freezer aisles walled off, and visitors thumbing rides back to their hotel. Jon shares his ho...

A foundation built on Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's legacy just acquired 3,200 acres on Maui and offered land to rebuild the school Lahaina lost. Now a private irrigation system is up for sale, and the question of who controls Maui's water is back on the table. Wondering where you fit into Maui's future? Book your Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Jon and Daniel start with the land. Kameha...

Buying a Maui vacation rental that only works if the bookings keep coming is a trap we've watched buyers fall into. Between the Lahaina fire, COVID, Airbnb, and new vacation rental restrictions, Maui rental income has been anything but predictable. Here's the simple test Daniel uses before anyone buys: could you carry this property without a single dollar of rental income? On this Hump Day edition...

Some of you asked why buyers would ever let two agents make their decisions for them. They shouldn't, and Jon explains exactly why he never will. Want a guide who walks beside your decision instead of making it? Book an Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Danny is wheels up for Maui, Jon is already planning his first plate of grinds, and somehow we ended up on the origins of saimin, orange chic...

Section J1 of the Hawaii purchase contract gives a buyer two options after inspections: move forward or terminate in writing. Read what the contract says line by line. Book an Aloha Vision Quest call with Jon and Daniel: https://bit.ly/avq-booking On this Myth-busting Friday, Jon and Daniel walk through Section J-1 and clear up a common assumption on the island: that a negotiation period follows t...

Today it's just Danny and Johnny, no Hot List, just two guys catching up and going deep on where Daniel actually came from. He grew up building decks and cabinets in his dad's woodshop, studied landscape architecture and horticulture, and somehow ended up specializing in turf science, the actual physiology of grass. His first job out of school was managing one of the most exclusive golf clubs in H...

You come home from Maui, and the trip should fade like every other vacation. For some people, it doesn't. Jon says that's the whole test. Still thinking about Maui weeks after you left? Let's talk it through. Book your Aloha Vision Quest: bit.ly/avq-booking Danny's still cruisin' in Japan, and it turns into a real conversation about what actually separates someone who's just dreaming about Maui fr...

Jon Brath lost three houses and a condo in the 2008 recession, and it turned into the exact skill that makes him good at pricing Maui real estate today. He also grew up on Molokai as the son of a dentist his neighbors nicknamed "the Hawaiian dentist," which is a very different origin story than most agents you'll find on this island. If Jon's story sounds like the kind of guide you want in your co...