Happy Thanksgiving from the Ihara Team

Happy Thanksgiving from the Ihara Team

The holiday season has officially begun! We hope you are as excited as we are.

We’d like to take a moment to express our gratitude to all of you this Thanksgiving. We have met some truly wonderful people, and we’re proud to have helped so many reach their real estate goals over the years.

We wouldn’t be where we are today without all of your support.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner with all of your family and friends—that’s what we plan to do!

In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any real estate questions. We would be happy to help you.

Happy Thanksgiving

Helping Those Impacted by Harvey

We recently had the opportunity to travel down to the Houston area with my Keller Williams colleagues to lend a hand to homeowners whose homes had flooded due to Hurricane Harvey.

When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Houston, it brought with it destructive amounts of rain and left in its wake tens of thousands of displaced people and hundreds of thousands more without power.

We recently had the opportunity to travel down to the Houston area with my Keller Williams colleagues to lend a hand to homeowners whose homes had flooded due to Hurricane Harvey. Overall, this experience has been incredibly rewarding. We got to help a lot of families, but there are many more people who still need help.

Overall, this experience has been incredibly rewarding.

Rebuilding these areas is going to take more than a couple of weeks, so it’s important that we keep the energy going in the coming months as we help people get back to their normal lives. 

Please consider donating to our Red Relief program. Your contributions will help us supply food, water, clothing, and building supplies to these communities.

If you have any questions about KW Cares, the Red Relief program, and our ongoing disaster relief efforts, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. 

We appreciate your support as we work to help others through this difficult time.

Do You Have Any Questions?

We’re looking to answer your specific questions in our videos so other people with similar questions can benefit from them too.

The year is moving as quickly as always, and as it does, we can expect to continue seeing changes in our market. With that, I wanted to reach out to you for a small favor.

I hope you have appreciated the video emails I send out regularly each month addressing trends in, changes to, and tips for navigating the world of real estate.

This is where I would like your help. 

Rather than simply guess what's on your mind, I want to reach out and ask you what questions you have about real estate.

We’re looking to answer your specific questions in our videos so other people with similar questions can benefit from them too.

Are there any concepts that confuse you? Are you curious about the market in your particular area?

I would love to answer your specific questions in my videos so other people with similar questions can benefit from them too.

Please take a second to send us an email with a question and you just might hear the answer in my next video!

To sweeten the deal, if I answer your question with a video, I will send you a $25 gift card!

If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to reach out to us. We'd be happy to help.

We Appreciate Your Business, We Hope You Had Fun!

We wanted to take another chance to say thank you to those who attended our client appreciation event. Our 2017 Easter Party at Kahala Community Park was a smash hit!

Have we ever told you how thankful we are to have you as a client?

Our client appreciation event this year was a great way to step back and separate the business side of things from the fun parts of life, come together, and have a great time. We received great feedback from our clients, who enjoyed the party and were thankful for a good time. Our Easter Party at Kahala Community Park was a hit.

We really enjoyed spending time with you.

We really enjoyed spending time with you. We have great relationships, and it's great to have an opportunity to talk in person and not just over the phone. This is a great event that gave us the chance to come together

Thanks again for making our company what it is today! I hope you enjoyed our event. As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any real estate questions.

How We Can Help Older Adults Transition

Today we wanted to take a moment to tell you about the benefits of our Complete Solution.

Our Complete Solution is a family of companies specifically designed to help Hawaii seniors with life's transitions. Our goal is to enhance the quality of your life wherever home may be. We do this by helping older adults determine where they can go. We're the senior living option specialists!

Two happy past clients sold their house with us and we were able to introduce them to Senior Move Managers. "It was very difficult to move from a 3-story, 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom huge house to a 1-bedroom apartment with only one closet," they said. But we helped them understand their options, what life would look like, and how much it would cost. Then we helped them downsize, declutter, and make the transition. "They made it so much easier for us.” 

We helped them prepare their house for sale and included renovations and repairs by our vendors.

Our extensive, around-the-globe marketing also helps our listings be seen.

Our extensive, around-the-globe marketing also helps our listings be seen. We specialize in determining your home's value based on current data and extensive research. Our research and marketing helps us obtain as many offers as possible. We even have a chief negotiator who works hard to secure the best price and terms that that market will bear for our listings. We work in constant communication with our sellers, too.

We work diligently to ensure the proceeds are sent exactly where you want and achieve your real estate goals.

When the time comes when you need help with life's transitions, we want you to lean on us! Just give us a call or send us an email soon, we're here to help.

Join Us to Learn About the Complete Solution for Seniors

Have you heard of the Complete Solution for Seniors? Well, now there's a solution for older adults, as well.

If you know someone living at home in what appears to be an unsafe environment or a loved one considering their living options, listen up.

As we get older and need more care, you might be wondering if you can age in place. You might also be wondering who can provide the services to help you age in place, as well as how much it would cost. Maybe you're thinking about moving and wondering where to go.

Similarly, what are your senior living options, and how much will they cost? What do you think life will look like if you move? If you decide to move, who can help you declutter your home and your personal belongings?

Who can help you with that move and the sale of your house while getting top dollar? Who has the experience and expertise to manage this potentially overwhelming process?

The answer is the Complete Solution for Seniors. We'd love for you to join us to get all the answers to your questions in a safe environment, for free. All you have to do is give us a call at (808) 754-2225 or visit ihara.eventbrite.com to register for this free seminar to learn how we can help you in your golden years.

We look forward to seeing you there!

How Do We Help Seniors?

The Ihara Team has the perfect solution for seniors going through a transition. Today you will learn about our new program, “The Complete Solution.”

We are Dan and Julie Ihara, the founders of The Ihara Team. Together we have created “The Complete Solution,” a family of companies designed to help Hawaii seniors with their transition in life.

Our goal is to increase your quality of life, wherever your home may be. We do this by helping you determine where you can go. We help seniors understand their options, what life will look like, and what the cost will be. Then we help them downsize, declutter, and make the transition.

We specialize in determining home values.

We help them prepare their home for sale, including renovations and repairs from our vetted vendors. We also have extensive marketing to market your home around the globe. We use marketing to advertise their homes around the globe and determine their home values based on current data points and extensive research. We even have a chief negotiator on staff who will help to secure the best price and terms the market will bear. We communicate with our clients weekly to let them know exactly what’s happening in the transaction and work diligently to close the sale. We want the proceeds to be exactly where they want them.

If you have any questions or the time to move comes and you need some help, give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you.

How We Help Aging Families with Their Homes

I was recently featured on KITV to talk about Aging Well. I'm able to help aging families determine their best course of action as they get older, whether that means moving into a different home or adjusting their current home to better suit their needs.

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I was fortunate to be recently featured on KITV to talk about Aging Well, a concept that started with our team.

For more than seven years now, we've been helping families decide whether they should move or stay in their home after their kids move out. A lot of folks want to age in place, and we can help with that. That could mean downsizing and decluttering, or simply installing things like grab rail bars.

Some Kupuna choose to move out, though, and we can help with that as well. We help them look at things like where to go, what the cost will be, and whether it's the right decision for them.

We can help find the right home or make your current home work.

Since we've done this for so long, we're able to expertly walk these folks down that path and ask the right questions to help them discover what's best for them. Additionally, I'm a CAP Certified specialist, so I specialize in helping those who want to age in place stay in their home.

Although I'm a Realtor, my goal is not to sell the home of someone in this situation, but to help them with their life. How can we enhance their life in whatever way that may be? That could mean decluttering, creating better walkways, installing grab rail bars, or whatever it takes to allow them to live at home gracefully.

As always, if you have any questions about Hawaii real estate or you'd like to learn more about Aging Well, give me a call or send me an email. I would love to hear from you!