$675,000 Mililani Home Tour Featuring HOA Fee Reduction!

All right guys. So people keep asking me, what is the number one topic in real estate on Oahu today? And I tell them it's this mustache. After that, it's our new listing at Laulea Townhomes at 95100 Moe Mano Street, unit number 455. I'm excited to show you guys. All right guys, before we walk around this big townhome, I have to tell you something. They are lowering the maintenance fee in this complex. We've seen a lot of maintenance fee increases. Now whether you are interested in real estate in Hawaii, Florida, California, or one of these markets that's prone to natural disaster, Hawaii, actually we don't have a lot of natural disasters, but we did have the Maui fires. The whole insurance industry kind of went crazy. Anyways, there have been maintenance fee increases in almost every association across the island. This is the first time I'm actually seeing a decrease. And so what I love about that is that tells me that this community, the board members and the owners, they're actually mindful and there's probably a higher owner occupancy rate. And these people are paying attention to their community and their finances. So hit us up, go to coreteamhawaii.com. If you want information on that, we have the email from the association telling us explicitly like, no, this is not if it's when, but let's go take a look at the house. So the first thing you're going to notice are the remodels. You have the more modern courts, countertops and hard surface durable floor, newer appliances, shaker cabinets. The kitchen is something that looks like this was a flip to be flipped, but it wasn't. It has been lived in by a military family for quite a while and they just happened to have the PCS. So there's no other reason for selling it other than their PCS thing. There's a lot of cool details about the house. One, this huge living space. Where would you get more pillows? Oh, if I needed a new pillows, I would walk over to Ross. That's where we were just filming the home. That's Ross right there. Three quick facts about this Ross area. One 24 hour fitness. That's where I used to work out as a young man. Aiden was a trainer there and worked there too. Ross is right here. That's what we came to show you. Then three, the community right in front of us. I used to have the highest sale. The record breaking sale in that community is actually my first listing ever. And I set the record, but then COVID happened and then prices went crazy. But in a normal market, I had the record. We do real estate on Oahu. We sell a bunch of homes. Most single family homes don't have a living space this large. They're usually smaller on average. This is really big. And it's a townhome. One thing in these homes and all the townhomes and a Mililani garden homes, cause they're kind of the same thing. The previous home would have stopped around here. There's an extension. I believe actually probably right here. There's an extension that adds extra square footage, making this even bigger than most. This is where most people would end up putting their dining table and whether they put the TV there or there, who knows. But when you don't have that and your living room is pushed into these stairs, you end up with a dining table over here. But because the extension was done on this, which probably cost a hundred thousand dollars or something, it costs a lot. In today's cost, you probably wouldn't do it. That's the thing. It's prohibitive to do it. It's so expensive to do that now. You probably wouldn't, but you can buy this home for what around what the other ones that don't have the extension would cost. Derek, what about going to the park? Oh, Mililani's got choke parks. Choke is the pigeon word of the day. Choke means abundant. It means a lot. But anyways, Mililani got choke parks. There's Kipapo park right here. There's 10 acres, 16 acres. There's so many parks in Mililani, including all of the rec centers. So rec seven, we can swim, get Starbucks, get shave ice, rec one with the slides, rec four with the splash pad, seven rec centers. Mililani is like, might be the best for parks on Oahu. So most people in the, in the other ones that don't have the extension, they'd have to put their, their dining table right here. The extension makes a huge difference. You may remember we sold another town home in Mililani and a place called actually lived in there. When I moved back to Hawaii and just a little bit of extension and that one, it was like 80 square foot. It made the world, the world of difference. Another thing you see is no popcorn ceilings, nicer, modern lights, big open area. One of the people that came to our first open house we had just this past weekend was romanticizing, putting surfboards across this wall. That's probably what I would do. Let me show you guys the yard real quick. Hey Kench, who's Hawaii's number one YouTube real estate team? Probably the nicest backyard in all of Hawaii. No, but on a serious note, more durable turf stamped concrete. Again, because we do this. And because I just bought a home, I know how much this stuff costs. Turf is expensive. Leave me a comment. Have you ever looked up turf? Turf is really expensive. And then to do stamped concrete like this is also very expensive. The yard is thoughtful, perfect for chilling, barbecuing, and you lead right into this big, big living space, outdoor spaces, where their position matters. So you have like a single family home and the front door is here. And then all the energy of the home goes this way. But then the usable yard is on the other side like that. I'd rather have a smaller yard, but it flow in and out of the living space. I actually hate this mustache. I just didn't shave for a long time because we were moving and I was like, let me just leave it. Cause my dad had this stash, right? All right, let's go upstairs. One person was asking, well, what is this store for? Yeah. Not many people are fitting through here. If you open it, it allows the wind to flow in and out just a little bit better. So that's what that was made for by the, I think the original owner. Admittedly, I'm in a position to buy a bigger single family home. We keep it real, right? But I was living in a town home smaller than this. When I first moved back to Hawaii, this is way bigger than the house that I ended up buying. If I were in the town home category and I wanted a town home in Mililani and I wanted big, and I wanted to stay under 700,000, I'm doing something like this for sure. This is the biggest bang for your buck in all of Mililani. And if you're looking for a more permanent place or even just a long transit, whatever the case may be, you want more single family vibes, but that's just not where you are today. Financially. This is the one. Where would you send your kids to school? Oh, if my kids are going to preschool or whatever, I'll just send them right there to Mililani Presbyterian. The owners who lived here previously, they actually sent their kid there and they loved it. All right. So the updates continue onto the second floor. The owners have updated small things that I got to point out because I'm your real estate agent, right? You went to coreteamhawaii.com and got the best marketers on the island to sell your house. You called us because after all, we're just normal people. So you weren't afraid like, Oh, I don't think I can call Derek. And no, you called us and we pointed out that they did things such as upgrade the closet doors. The newer flooring continues throughout here. One thing I want to point out, you're going to see it in a couple of different places, including the primary. The way they built these closets because of these high lofted ceilings, there's an opportunity to do something cool up here. You see some people maybe put a ladder and this one's a little small for that. It's for a small kid. I suppose you could, but definitely extra storage opportunity up here. All right. So this is the next bedroom. Same thing. I'm putting something, you don't need to do these things. You have to do when you first move in and they're going to do it. So probably put like a rail of some sort or who knows if I have a young kid, maybe I even make this like a little like tree house Fort thing up there, put a pad, put railing to make it safe, make a little hangout. This closet is giving sauna vibes. I don't know if it's actually cedar, but it looks like cedar. If we started the video right here, Kenji be like, Derek, are you in a luxury Kahala home? No, but there are luxury aspects to this Mililani big townhome. I thought you were supposed to come out. Anyways, my wife works close to here on Wheeler army airfield. And so if I were in the military, for example, this would be a super convenient townhome. I'd hang my uniforms here. And then if I were working from home, maybe I'd go drop my wife some coffee or something since it's so close. So the upgrades continue. We have the newer, harder surface flooring as well as this big loft. There's even homes that continue the ceiling and treat that like a bedroom. I'm not saying it's permitted and I'm not saying you should, but it's been known for people to go all the way up there and just treat that whole thing like a bedroom. There is enough space for it. It's Hawaii. It's expensive. If you're pinched and you need another place for someone to cruise, I'm doing it. But the association knows about one of them that's done. So maybe you can do it. Let me show you guys this door that just, you know, the windows there, just a thoughtful thing to help air flow through. I think Derek can make it through this. Nope. And that's a good thing. I think that's why it was designed that way. So let me show you guys the primary bathroom continuing the theme of the closet, the cedar, nice wood closet with this nice shower tile floor. I didn't really see tile going up walls and homes until I got into homes in the diamond head area. I was like, Oh yeah, that makes sense. So what do you think? Would you put tile going up the wall? I believe they call it Wayne's coating. Would you Wayne's coat the tile around? Would you just stop it here at the toilet? What do you guys think of this bathroom? Are you making coffee or are you getting coffee? Oh no. I would just go get coffee because there's so many coffee shops convenient to here. So I go to Starbucks at Milani town center, go to surface coffee, Bizzia or the coffee farm. I'll go to one of those and take it to my wife. In the video that we're doing, we were going to try and do a segment where I drop you coffee, but you're not going to be at work and we're trying to drop this on Sunday. So my wife that's work early, so I can't take her to coffee on the military base. It's only a few minutes from our new listing, but we still went over here to get the coffee. So I'll take one home to her. Got me a matcha in this young, vibrant, hipster, sort of cool coffee shop. Kenji picked out, what is it? Goat, honey, honey, honey over goat cheese pizza. And we're just going to enjoy what central Oahu has to offer. Convenience, cooler weather, cool stuff, better commute than have a beach and big town homes that you should buy. See you on the next one.