Ronnie's Blog

Jeff Stone and his company Princeville Associates LLC purchased a large part of Princeville from the Princeville Corporation in 2005.Stone paid around $220M  for the purchase of the 9,000-acre Princeville resort, including the 252-room Princeville Hotel, two Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf courses, t...

Mokulele Airlines is the latest arrival to the inter-island air travel market. They began flying on November 19th, using their 70-seat Embraer between Honolulu, Hilo, and Lihue. Recently, Mokulele Airlines announced they are  joining Seattle-based Alaska Airlines’ mileage plan. The two airlines ...

Walter Lewis is an insightful and provocative writer who contributes to our local newspaper, The Garden Island on a bi-weekly basis. Two recent pieces of his are worth noting here on our blog. One piece makes a comment about the county government and the upcoming changes with some of the new part...

When I was a kid when i went to parties we used to do a dance called the limbo. Two people would hold a post or rod or something and the person dancing would contort themselves and attempt to scoot under the "limbo bar". Each time the bar would be lowered until one could not go under it. For thre...

Here is a short little year-in-review post from a top industry analyst. When you read further down the list, you'll be happy to know that ActiveRain and Twitter, two industry changing trends, are communities that I am very active with and use frequently for networking with clients and professiona...

Since the Fed announced a plan to purchase $500 billion of mortgage-backed securities on November 25, mortgage rates have moved progressively lower, and the trend continued this past week. Conforming fixed-rate mortgage rates dropped to levels last seen in 2003. Weak Retail Sales data and low inf...

We just lowered the price on our most unique parcel of land located above Rock Quarry Beach and adjacent to the Kilauea River. The lot is now over a million dollars below original asking price at $995,000 for almost 7 acres. This one-of-a-kind lot provides spectacular privacy and breathtaking vie...

It's almost time to head out to the Performing Arts Center where the Honolulu Symphony will be performing two concerts this evening. Funded by a nice grant, this is the first time that the Honolulu Symphony has been to Kauai for 15 years. They spent most of the last two days traveling around to m...

The recent NAR convention just completed in Orlando, Florida. Many of the leaders of Active Rain attended and they celebrated big time. Here are a couple of valuable thoughts and observation about what we fondly call, "The Rain", as shared by a conference attendee. Aloha from Kauai...   Active Ra...

While many on the island were busy celebrating the Obama victory, the county of Kauai was morphing its personality by electing a new Mayor and new County Council. Former Dept. of Parks and Recreation head Bernard Carvalho defeated former Kauai mayor Joanne Yukimura by a pretty big margin. I heard...