Open House 6/9 from 2-4pm.

Large one bedroom in move in ready condition at one of the most relaxing complexes on the famous North Shore.Perfect for your getaway or first time homebuyers.100 yards from Aweoweo beach, close to schofield barracks, and Historic Haleiwa town. Enjoy rooftop rec. area, beautifully landscaped common area, and secured parking.This is NOT a short sale

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August is the RE/MAX Month of Miracles for Kids.  RE/MAX and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® Team for Mega-Month of Local Fundraisers and Giving for Kids.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals has grown dramatically since it's founding in 1983 from a televised fundraiser in a small studio to one of North America's leading children's charities.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals was founded with two simple goals:

     1. Help as many children as possible by raising funds for children's hospitals.

     2. Keep funds in the community in which they were raised to help local children.

The organization was founded by Marie Osmond and her family, John Schneider, Mick Shannon  and Joe Lake.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals most recognizable symbol and greatest fundraising tool is its red and yellow Miracle Balloon icon.

As of 2011, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $4.3 billion-- most of which is donated a dollar or two at a time.

As Hawaii's local Children's Miracle Network hospital, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children, is the state's only specialty care facility for women and children.  Proud to be the only tertiary pediatric and perinatal facility in Hawaii, Kapiolani houses the state's only pediatric intensive care unit serving all islands and the Pacific Basin.  The hospital is home to 197 beds and 90 neonatal bassinets as well as a 24-hour pediatric emergency room servicing more than 20,000 patients a year.

Team Lally has 12 Months of Miracles for Kids, as every home we list/sell, a donation to the local Children's Miracle Network is given on behalf of our clients.  The Lally Team is passionate about supporting Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals because money donated goes to the treatment and care of local kids at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children.

For more details go to: http://www.teamlally.com/Causes-We-Support

Time is RUNNING OUT!

In 2007, the Mortgage Debt Relief Act was passed in an attempt to help the millions of homeowners who, due to the housing crisis and economic crash, suddenly found themselves in danger of losing their home to foreclosure.

This report was created to give homeowners the most accurate information about the Mortgage Debt Relief Act that has helped may distressed homeowners find solutions to avoid foreclosure and opened up options to them that were previously unavailable.

This Act was always intended to be a temporary solution.  Barring an act of congress extending the act, it is now set to expire at the end of 2012.  For distressed homeowners, this means that time is running out for you to take advantage of this program.

Time is running out.  But there is still time to change your financial direction and avoid foreclosure.  Reading this report will teach you what the Mortgage Debt Relief Act is and how it can help save you money.

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We are very happy to have the opportunity to thank our clients for all you do for us by celebrating at our Client Appreciation party.  On the 1st of July from 11am to 4pm, please join us at the Hideaway Club.

The organization we will be supporting with proceeds from our event is Women In Need, a non-profit organization that has been serving the women of Hawaii since 1996 with education and support.  We ask that you please bring an item that will be useful to mothers with young babies; your baby item will help support the charity. Our goal is to involve and serve the people of our communities that need us.  The services offered by Women In Need are pivotal to providing these deserving individuals with direction, hope and stability.  The scope of their project is to reach men, women and children in abusive relationships and those that are in lifelong situations of domestic violence and narcotics addiction.  The primary focus being on low-income groups as well as homeless individuals and families.  Women In Need seeks to channel the energy of these members of our community and help them to learn better ways of communicating through valuable tools and lessons.

This wonderful charity seves on average 350 families each year, successfully helping them to break the generational cycles of hopelessness and thankfully together, we have a chance to help them in their endeavors.

7th Annual Client Appreciation Party                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Sunday, July1st from 11am-4pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         at the Hideaway Club at Barber's Point                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (USCG Air Station located near WHite Plains Beach, Kapolei)

For Details & to RSVP visit: TeamLally.com/Client-Appreciation-Party                                                                                                                                                                                                                                *Remember if you ar Non-Military you will need to RSVP to be allowed throught he gates at the USCG Air Station

Adrienne's Real Estate Tip:
You're Invited to Join My NEW Video Real Estate Blog!

6/4/2012 | Honolulu, HI – Hello friends, family and business contacts! I'm sending you this email because we've done business together or we have an existing relationship – and for that reason, I want to teach you how to make smart decisions in real estate and improve the value of your home. I've created a video real estate blog and every two weeks I'll update you with a new video and email that's fun, useful and educational when it comes to owning, buying or selling a home. Now, if you wish not to receive my emails, simply unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of this email; my apologies for sending you this unannounced. But, if you'd like to see what I'm up to click here to visit my NEW video real estate blog and see my video about what determines the value of your home. >>

There are many great Honolulu area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (808) 687-8921 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

 Sincerely,

Adrienne Lally

Founded by Mary Scott-Lau who taught free classes in basic life skills to women who needed them in 1996.  It has since expanded to anger management, domestic violence management, parenting, and computer and job readiness skills.  Classes are now at the Women's Community Correctional Center and the Family Resource Center in Waianae, and also include spousal abuse centers, homeless shelters and residential substance abuse locations island wide.  Their client base has extended to men and to the young people being taught at teen homeless shelters.  More importantly, they care for women in transition, moving from incarceration and into civilian life at correctional half way houses on Oahu and Kauai.   

WIN's primary mission is to help the mothers and fathers of Hawaii to get off drugs, off the streets, and out of abusive relationships, enabling them to parent their children and to lead stable, fulfilling lives.  Doing everything they can to break the generational cycles of hopelessness, they serve approximately 350 clients per year.  Most are lifelong victims of domestic violence and narcotics addiction.  The primary focus is the homeless and low-income population but also extends well past these groups.  Having grown into a vast community made-up of those who have helped and inspired, many of their former clients now work on staff, or as volunteers to assist in furthering the organization's reach.

To learn more about Women In Need, go to: win-hawaii.org

    The next phone call you get might be from a crook eager to “help” you get your share of the recent $25 billion foreclosure abuse settlement attorneys general in 49 states negotiated with the big banks.

Reality check: This is a national settlement run by state employees. So the chance that a settlement official is calling you the week after the deal was struck because they’re ready to send you your share of $25 billion is about as likely as the possibility you just won the Nigerian lottery.

The attorneys general of several states warn that fraudsters claiming to be bank employees or settlement officials are calling consumers asking for bank account information, credit card numbers, or other personal information. If you give it to them, they’ll use it to steal your identity or run up fraudulent credit card charges as soon as you hang up the phone.

Don’t fall for that trick or for Internet sites promising to get you your share of the settlement — for a fee. Legit organizations never collect a fee for settlements like this or for helping you avoid foreclosure.

Read more: http://www.houselogic.com/blog/facing-foreclosure/foreclosure-settlement-scams/#ixzz1p2yaQgoz

It's not just which energy efficiency projects you implement at home that will make a dent in your bills -- it's how many.

This is the second part of the Q&A with Suzanne Shelton, president and CEO of Shelton Group, a marketing agency specializing in sustainability and energy efficiency. Shelton Group's annual Energy Pulse research report tracks consumer attitudes toward energy-related topics. Read Part 1, "Looking for Energy Savings in All the Wrong Places (http://www.houselogic.com/blog/whats-really-green/energy-savings-at-home/)."

HouseLogic: A few days ago you told us why we're so disconnected from our home's energy use. Today, tell us what we should be doing differently to make our homes more energy efficient.

Suzanne Shelton: First, I want to mention that it matters how many energy-efficient things you do. Half of the population say they've done two to three things to make their homes more energy efficient - replaced incandescent lightbulbs with CFLs (http://www.houselogic.com/blog/lighting/cfls-light-bulbs/), bought an Energy Star appliance (http://www.houselogic.com/maintenance-repair/preventative-home-maintenance/appliances/), added insulation (http://www.houselogic.com/maintenance-repair/preventative-home-maintenance/insulation/) - but most people report that their bills have gone up.

HL: So more projects equal more results?

SS: Right. Once you get up to the level of making four or five energy-efficiency home improvements, you generally start seeing savings on your utility bill.

Depending on the activities you choose and the point you're starting out at, you can probably expect a four- or five-year time frame for return of your investment. Which means now is a great time to do it. How many of us are stuck in our homes now because of the market?

If you're potentially four or five years from selling, why not go ahead and make those improvements? You'll get yourself paid back and live more comfortably and frugally right now, and you can brag about your improvements when you sell your house.

HL: The economy is weighing on everyone. If a home owner has just $1,000 to spend on energy-efficient home improvements, what would you recommend he or she do first?

SS: 5 things:

1.Caulk and seal all penetrations into the home. I'll tell you, I had a home energy audit done three years ago, and even though I do this for a living, I was astonished. When the guy walked me down into my basement and showed me all the penetrations from plumbing lines and electricity wires, I couldn't believe all the gaping holes in my house. Buy a few cans of Great Stuff and take a weekend to go around and seal everything, filling around windows, too. It takes time and it's a pain, but it works.

2. Hire an HVAC contractor to take a hard look at all your ductwork - are there any ducts leaking that need to be re-sealed (http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/home-thoughts/houselogic-new-years-resolutions-home/2/)? - and give you an HVAC tune-up (http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/heating-cooling/hvac-maintenance/). You might spend a couple hundred bucks, but you can save significantly depending on how old or out of shape your HVAC system is.

3. Replace all your lighting (http://www.houselogic.com/home-improvement/lighting/) with CFLs (http://www.houselogic.com/blog/lighting/cfls-light-bulbs/) or LEDs. Most people tell us they've replaced all their incandescents, but it just isn't true. The DOE says that only about 13% of sockets are filled with CFLs right now.

4. Program your thermostat. Most people who buy programmable thermostats don't program them. If we actually programmed them not to heat the furniture while we're away, that would be smart.

5. Reduce the temperature on your water heater. The Department of Energy recommends 120 degrees (http://www.energysavers.gov/tips/water_heating.cfm). If you have a tank water heater, it keeps a certain amount of water hot and ready to go all day, so lowering the temperature reduces the energy you use to heat the water.

If, after you've done all those relatively low-cost things, you want to make a little bit more of an investment, consider adding insulation (http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/insulation/save-money-with-insulation-upgrade/) to your house.

No one wants to do these things because they're not sexy, and they're kind of a pain, and windows seem more appealing. But I'd do all these activities before I replaced my windows.

HL: If you could spearhead an ad campaign to motivate home owners to make more energy-efficient improvements, what would it say?

SS: You have to do five things to see the savings you want. That's actually something we're working on right now, so stay tuned.

Which energy-efficient projects have you implemented? Have you seen a reduction in your bill or an increase?

442 tips to keep your house in tip-top shape

Book Review: 'What's a Homeowner to Do?'

The following article covers a topic that has recently moved to center stage--at least it seems that way. If you've been thinking you need to know more about it, here's your opportunity. 

If you've ever bought one of those little gift books that has a year's worth of daily inspirational messages, this book will remind you of one of those. It's a small-format book filled with 442 tips, diagrams, and easy-to-use, bite-sized tutorials for do-it-yourself home improvement, maintenance and safety projects.

Fanuka, the star of the show "Million Dollar Contractor," teams up with Edward Lewine (who writes a couple of home improvement columns for The New York Times Magazine) to comprehensively catalog and address precisely the sorts of items that keep buyers and homeowners awake at night, offering their insomnia-soothing home improvement knowledge in a highly digestible format.

Throughout, they flag items that homeowners need to maintain on a regular basis to avoid disasters, parse out which items owners can do themselves (and which they should refer to the pros), empower them to ask the right questions and have the right conversations with those pros, and walk them through simple instructions for doing it themselves, where applicable. The book starts out with a "green manifesto" that briefs readers on all the ways in which their homes impact the environment by offering them a long bullet point list of choices they can make to green their homes. It then moves on to cover the down-and-dirty, do-it-yourself tutorials with a chapter on how to assemble and use a basic toolkit. Then, the book proceeds to offer hundreds of mini-lessons categorized by area of a home, from the exterior, to windows, plumbing, electrical,  and such subjects as carpentry, doors and locks, walls, basements, garages, yards, and safety and security issues.

Often, these sorts of tips books can be tough to use for readers who have a high need for information -- those who want to know why they should do things a particular way, or why they should trust the proffered advice. But interspersed throughout the book's tips on what to do to your home are highly interesting briefings on "how" things in your home work. In short-and-sweet plain English, Fanuka and Lewine answer questions like "What's so important about rain gutters?" and "How are wooden stairs constructed?"

If you own a home and feel at loose ends when it comes to knowing what you should be doing to keep it in tip-top shape, "What's a Homeowner to Do" is an accessible, yet smart, primer and reference guide you'll turn to time and time again. If you're still in house hunt mode, definitely put it on your housewarming registry -- it'll save you some sleepless nights, and maybe even some money!