Rental Management

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Our place is on 23rd off of Kaloli in HPP. It is a three bedroom bath and a half built in 1996. It was the lot that sold us. It was already really nicely landscaped. Ron, of Mark and Ron mentioned above, sold it to us. Mark was there all the way and said it would be rentable. The good features...the beautiful one acre lot; the fact that it's about 15 minutes from Hilo; it's also in a good location to get to other attractions like Volcano Nat/ Park, the tide pools for snorkling, the hot ponds etc. When we first started the rental it took few months before we started making more than the about $800 house payment was. Then it took off nicley, and we started profiting about $600 over the house payment. Mark always does credit checks on renters. The renters pay 100% of the cleaning fees. Mark has a very good and close by cleaning crew and handyman to do any small repairs needed. Examples..replaced sliding door screen, light pull cord chain on overhead fan, change water catchment filters, etc. All were very reasonable. The months before we finally moved here this last September were booked for just about every day of each month.
I think short term renting works well. Way better than having your house sit empty. Our great neighbors were great too. On one side they bran a landscape company. They took care of lawn mowing and weed spraying for us and also kept an eye on the place.
I'm a worry wart and stressed over owning the place and renting it from the mainland. I shouldn't have worried. The key was Mark Cox's very thorough property management. Very hard working gent.

Jon in Keaau/HPP