October 7, 2009
Our friends in the Northwest recommended a seasoned Realtor in Juneau, Alaska. We met with John Williams, who founded Juneau Real Estate in 2001. His company represents the real estate needs of residential and commercial clients in Juneau and beyond. Their offices are located in the Jordan Creek Center and directions can be found on their website.
Unlike so many “big box” real estate offices, John’s aim is to be friendly, as well as professional during his transactions. Getting to know his clients is an important and necessary part of the process. John and his small staff have resided in the Juneau area for a vary long time.
We found his website very helpful from the beginning of our search until we closed on our house. John and his staff were always available to help via email and over the phone. Much Thanks.
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July 20, 2009
In the next couple of weeks we’ll be visiting Eugene Oregon again. Although we only got to really know the owners of Eugene’s Alternative Realtor when we sold our home there, we are going to be spending time with them while we are there. 10 months later, and we are still appreciative of the way this Eugene Real Estate office came together to sell our home— in less than a week.
The speed with which they got us organized to get our clutter removed, had our home inspected and repaired and then brought in the community of Eugene agents had us spinning. Yet, their hard work paid off. Yes– in an unbelievable four days, we’d accepted the offer presented to us and were happily packing for our move south.
Owners, Pam and Dave, are backed by a great staff. Whenever we had a question about anything, we could email or call and receive an immediate response from one of the four folks who handle their workload.
This Willamette Valley city of over 150,000 residents, has a lot of real estate agents to choose from, so to have one stand out (so remarkably) from the rest of the pack was a pleasant surprise. As with many experiences in our lives, we find that a referral from a friend always works out in our favor. Our acquaintance with Eugene’s Alternative Realtor is no exception. Only we didn’t just hear from one source that we should choose Eugene’s Alternative to sell our home, we got a thumbs up from several friends on this one.
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July 14, 2009
As professional photographers who travel a lot, Santa Cruz, California is our chosen home and headquarters. It’s a beautiful area and convenient to the city and airports.
One of the reasons we chose to make Santa Cruz our headquarters is because we needed to rent a secure, long term, self-serve storage unit, and after looking around, we found Store More America had everything we needed. Although we own a lot of photo gear, we always travel light. We require climate-controlled storage for the expensive, fragile equipment we’re not hauling with us. In addition, we like to take advantage of the area here as well as the places we visit on our photo shoots. Our “toys” include surf/boogie boards, skis/snow boards and bikes. (these just don’t all fit in the condo)
Store More Americas’ Santa Cruz Storage Facility is perfect for us. It meets our #1 requirement: security is excellent. We can access our gear easily. Hours are super convenient. We’ve found the staff to be completely professional. Oh, they are helpful and friendly too.
Finally, Store More America has four locations. Three of them are really close to our place. We had to get out the map to decide on the one that was most convenient for our needs. We opted for the Soquel storage location. We are writing this blog because we keep running into folks here who need good storage in the central-coast area.
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June 9, 2009
Recently, our friends were invited to a family wedding on Maui. They, as we all are these days, are unsettled by the expense of the trip, so they called us to ask for any advice we might be able to offer in the way of cheap rental cars on Maui. They are flying into Kahului, so we suggested they reserve their car there. They’ll be able to attend the celebrations in style, while saving enough money to do some sightseeing during their free time.
This conversation with our friends got us to thinking that this advice fits all Hawaii car rentals, on all the islands. We’ve learned we can save money by staying away from the traditional rental agencies such as Dollar, Thrifty, Budget, Avis or Hertz. The online discount car rental agencies are much more affordable. Yet, we get the same car as if we’d rented from one of the big companies.
When we are looking for a discount vehicle rental in Kona or Hilo on the Big Island, money-saving transportation on Molokai, or a Kauai car rental, we look into the discount agencies when we hire a rental car. The same goes for finding cheap Honolulu rental cars for a crazy vacation on Waikiki Beach. We always decide we want to make a trip to the north shore, and we find the best deals for our money are found online for a rental car on Oahu.
As well, the cheap airline websites offer great deals. We have found great deals for flights and lodging together on one site. So, as we suggested to our Lahaina-bound friends, we like to save all the money we can on getting there, so we can take full advantage of the “aloha” the Hawaiian Islands have to offer.
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October 21, 2008
Our pick, you guessed it, AlohaRents.com is the hands-down winner. We requested rate quotes from the 3 big cheap car rental companies in Hawaii. We chose Honolulu to be specific. Only because the largest fleets on the islands are housed there. The three companies we selected were: Car Rental Hawaii, Discount Hawaii Car Rental and the winner, Aloha Rents. The car we selected was an economy model. AlohaRents.com also offered bonus benefits, such as extra drivers at no charge and young drivers for free.
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June 26, 2008
We just returned from a photo shoot at Waikiki on the Island of Oahu. The vehicle rental personnel were very helpful and kind. They sent us to a cool place on Oahu’s North Shore for our day off. The majority of work we completed was shot at Diamond Head near Waikiki. We spent a total of three days and actually brought back over 800 photos.
Some of the Jeeps we rented were used in the images this time. So, our thanks go out to Hawaii Jeeps. If you need a ATV, stop by one of their 3 locales in Waikiki Beach.
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