Moving to HAWAII in 2024? What to ACTUALLY expect.

🌴 Welcome to Your Ultimate Guide to Moving to Honolulu! 🌴
Are you dreaming of moving to the beautiful city of Honolulu, Hawaii? Whether it's the allure of pristine beaches, the vibrant city life, or the call of adventure in lush valleys, Honolulu has something special for everyone. But moving to paradise comes with its own set of challenges and preparations. That's where we come in!
In this video, we'll go through everything you need to know before making the big move. From the initial research and preparation to understanding the nuances of life in Honolulu, we've got you covered with 14 essential pointers about living in this dynamic city.
📌 What You'll Learn:
Research and Preparation: How to start your journey, including setting up a call with Duc to guide you through the process.
Schedule Your Visit/Move: Tips on booking flights and finding short-term accommodations.
Test Drive the Area: The importance of renting before buying and how to find the perfect neighborhood for you.
The Move: Practical advice on what to bring and how to simplify your relocation.
Life in Honolulu: An insider's look at city life, local benefits, social etiquette, cost of living, and much more!
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A resident of Honolulu for more than 19 years, Duc has lived and worked in many areas on Oahu. His business is based mostly on referrals from satisfied clients. Most important to Duc is providing exceptional service to buyers and sellers in order to earn their trust, referrals, and repeat business. Duc has sold homes in all price ranges from starter homes and luxury condominiums, multi-family properties, and investment properties, totaling over $47M in career sales. Clients appreciate his flexibility, low pressure sales, patience, ability to listen and hear what a client wants, negotiation and analytical skills, and his ability to accurately price and market a home.
As a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a M.S. in Physics, he brings a unique analytical skill set to the real estate business. He moved from Southern California to Honolulu in 2004, after graduating from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Physics. He is also fluent in Vietnamese.
As a real estate investor, Duc is a partner in 1122 units across 9 states. He is a limited partner in 634 units. As an active investor, he owns a single-family rental property in Anaheim, CA, 15 units in one JV in Pittsburgh, PA, and 579 units as a GP with Tri-city Equity Group, valued at over $73M. His broad experience as a real estate investor in both Oahu and mainland properties allows him to provide his clients with the best experience in both buying and selling properties. He specializes in working with investors.
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[@RealHomerSimp2025]

Gas is still $1 less than California.

[@aluisious]

Also who cares what gas costs in Hawaii? What are you going to do, drive laps around the island? It's not like living in Texas or Montana.

[@reaganenglish]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for the share !!!

[@livinginhonolulu]

Thank you for watching and sharing your feedback!

[@shellyellisherrington2986]

Loved your video. Thank you ever so much for the information. Looking very forward to being a new resident in Alohaville. Mahalo❤

[@livinginhonolulu]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ChuggaMugga69]

Me and a couple friends want to move to Honolulu later this year. We are currently preparing and planning everything we would need. This is a helpful video I may come back to use

[@livinginhonolulu]

Awesome, thanks! Let me know if I can help.

[@pinegd1]

"Familiarity breeds contempt." A paradise for visitors can be a hell for residents that must deal with long term problems.

[@Robert-eg2oy]

Hawaii has 21 army installations that they no longer need. Those installations can be turned over to the Hawaiian people for more living space.

[@stevenleonard8212]

Can the big island use a plumber ..im 39 and looking to change my life up..currently in pittsburgh pa and need a refresh!..went to kona in october 23 and just have an urge to give back and live a different life

[@livinginhonolulu]

I think good plumbers are needed everywhere. There's a lot of new development going on there, so that could be a good opportunity to connect with developers.

[@marknewton6984]

Just go.

[@stevenleonard8212]

@@marknewton6984 you think so?..

[@marknewton6984]

Yes. Hawaii or Florida. Why not? 😎

[@bill2066]

Lived Hawaii for 26 yrs. Could never move back, even if I wanted to. Just too expensive and risky.

[@jagervolant7871]

What’s risky about it? LOL

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@jagervolant7871 The odds of falling into homelessness like so many others. AND crime has REALLY become bad here, so there’s that too.

[@dustinmiller2775]

​@@jagervolant7871It was methed up for YEARS

[@sunrayrosin7181]

It’s investors and people who choose to make their income taking financial value out of lands and homes they don’t live on or work on who have ruined Hawaii for all the people who were born and raised in Hawaii. Proove me wrong.

[@aluisious]

No, you're right.

[@philjorgensen1950]

Aloha from Idaho. I have a HI RE License through 2024, and lived on Oahu and Maui 2x each from 2008-2022. Need help?

[@livinginhonolulu]

Sure, please send me an email at [e-mail]

[@achunable]

❤

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

There’s a reason about 90% of videos about moving to Hawai’i are by realtors… they want the commission. I would suggest anyone considering moving to Hawai’i should get the “truth” from someone who isn’t incentivized by a commission.

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

Thank you again for your informed answer above.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@Penta_Penguin_237 You’re very welcome.

[@blueberry4082]

You don’t help with rentals, right? Do you have any tips to start with?

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

Please Sir I need your precious opinion: I am 31 from Italy, In 2 years I will have 3 degrees, currently speak fluently 5 languages while I have studied 8 and I work as firmware developer in a French multinational company. Do you think I have a chance within the next two years to land a job in the tech sector in Hawaii? The 5 languages I speak: Italian, English, French, German, Chinese. Plus I have knowledge of Japanese, Spanish and Russian. The 3 degrees: Languages and cultures, Robotics, Applied artificial intelligence. The tech degrees have been undertaken under the stricter requirements of an international university in Germany.

[@livinginhonolulu]

I think you can get a remote job and work from anywhere, at which point you can choose to do so in Hawaii. AI is in demand now.

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

@@livinginhonolulu Thank you Sir! Well the best thing for me would be to work maybe a day or 2 remote but for the rest I want and I need a company to work in. Are there tech opportunities in Hawaii?

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

Not many tech jobs, no. And the few tech jobs there are will already be filled. Hawai’i has a lot of people who have to work multiple jobs to barely get by, so there’s not many jobs here. Hawai’i is also known for low paying jobs. The languages you mentioned won’t be of much of any help in job seeking, aside from Chinese, which may be a small help, but not much. Most of our international tourists (which is the sector languages would be helpful in) are not from China, they’re mostly from Japan. So if you are very fluent in Japanese, that would be helpful, but it’s a competitive market and a lot of people speak Japanese fluently here (we also have a lot of Japanese people who live here & I know from personal experience that companies will hire Asians in the tourism sector above other ethnicities because they feel people from Japan are more comfortable with them). You should also be aware that tourism doesn’t pay well at all, unless you’re in management maybe, but even then you’ll have to do that full time AND get other part time jobs, to afford living here. Just a note: it was determined recently that a single person with no children needs to earn $112,000 USD a year to comfortably get by in Hawai’i… you can’t earn that in tech and definitely not in the tourism industry. If you can earn that working remotely, then you could afford to live here, but I’ll be honest, you won’t be able to earn that easily here, you’d have to work multiple jobs just to get by, and what’s the point of living here if all you do is work and sleep and never get to enjoy living here? Note: most people here earn between $35,000 - $67,000 a USD a year (because there’s not much jobs and the jobs there are don’t pay much). The only way we can get by is by living with our families and splitting the costs. For someone who doesn’t have a family, you will have a very hard time affording living here. I would suggest you consider Thailand, Vietnam or the Philippines where the languages you mentioned would be more helpful in getting a job. Those countries have a high demand for people who can speak European languages because most of their tourists are from Europe and America.

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Thank you, thank you and one more time thank you. This is life changing information. I will opt to Australia, New Zealand, Florida, Texas or California. Again thank you for each word of your reply.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@Penta_Penguin_237 You’re very welcome. A lot of people move here because no one told them the truth & they end up homeless and living on the street and they get stuck here because they can’t afford a plane ticket to leave. I hate to see that happen if I can help it. I hope you find a place that works out for you.

[@AR-ly7yt]

Expect to be broke

[@kailani808]

Long story short….DON’T!

[@Amalekkkkk]

As a Canadian can I put down payment and get a mortgage ? In Hawaii ?

[@livinginhonolulu]

Yes, it's possible. Send me a text or email and I can hook you up with a lender to chat more.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

You should be aware that the state is considering banning foreign buyers… that’s something realtors won’t tell you, because they just want the commission.

[@aluisious]

@@livinginhonolulu Get a real job.