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Hawaii Coastal Property Management We offer full-service rental management for single-family homes, condos, and multifamily properties across Hawaii.

Specializing in Long-Term, Vacation Rentals, and Mid-Term Rentals Hawaii Coastal Property Management is a full-service property management company serving in Honolulu, Hawaii. We're serving Metro Honolulu, Kaka'ako, Pearl City, Aiea, Waipahu, Waikele, Ewa Beach, Kapolei, Waikiki, Kaimuki, Kahala, Aina Haina, Hawaii Kai, Kailua, Lanikai, Waialua, Haleiwa, Kaneohe, Haiku, Hau'ula, and Pupukea. Some of our services include property marketing, tenant screening, rent collection, property inspections and maintenance, and financial reporting. As Hawaii’s leading property management firm, our experienced team takes care of every detail, so you can enjoy the benefits of your investment without the stress. Contact us today to see how we can help you manage your Honolulu property!

10/10/2026

When you rent out a condo, your tenant isn't the only one you answer to.

Your condo association, often called the AOAO, already has rules for how the unit is used, from rental restrictions to move-in day. Under Hawaii law your tenant has to follow them. If a house rule is broken, the association can fine your tenant, and you can be held responsible too.

The good news is that all of it can be found before anyone moves in. Get your declaration, bylaws and house rules in writing, and check them for a minimum lease term, a rental cap and a registration requirement before you advertise.

Our guide walks through who decides what:
https://hicoastal.com/renting-out-oahu-condo-aoao-rules

General information, not legal advice.

10/03/2026

Picture two Oʻahu rentals. One is a one-bedroom in an older walk-up in town, with no assigned parking, a shared laundry room on the ground floor and no pool or gym. The other is a three-bedroom house in ʻEwa Beach with a two-car garage, a washer and dryer inside and a small yard.

Many owners would bet on the first. It's closer to the jobs, the hospitals and the places visitors know by name. In our experience, the house in ʻEwa Beach is the better midterm rental.

The reason starts with what the renter is doing. Someone who books a month or three is choosing where to live for a while. They'll do laundry every week, park every night, cook most of their meals and drive to the same job each morning. A home that is charming for four nights can wear on someone by the fourth week.

Our new guide walks through the everyday details that matter most: a washer and dryer inside, parking almost anywhere outside the urban core, a location that suits the renter's commute rather than sightseeing, and enough room and comfort to live in. It also covers where the exceptions are, and the City, tax and association rules to confirm before you list.

Full guide: https://hicoastal.com/what-makes-a-good-midterm-rental-oahu

General information, not legal or tax advice.

A tenant calls the morning after a storm. Rain was driven in under the lanai door overnight, the bedroom carpet is soake...
09/26/2026

A tenant calls the morning after a storm. Rain was driven in under the lanai door overnight, the bedroom carpet is soaked and the outlet by the door has stopped working.

The natural plan is to call the insurance company, wait to hear what's covered, and then fix things. That treats the storm as one problem with one process.

It isn't. Your repair deadline started with your tenant's call. Your insurer has its own procedure. Your tenant has rights over the rent for a room nobody can use. And in a condo, the association has a claim of its own. They all respond to the same damage, and none of them was designed to wait for the others.

Swipe through for how they fit together, and what's worth settling before next hurricane season.

Full guide: https://hicoastal.com/hurricane-storm-damage-oahu-rental-owners

General information for Hawaii rental owners, not legal or insurance advice. Questions about coverage, your deductible or whether to file a claim belong with your insurance agent.

Most mainland owners we talk to have already decided to hold the property and rent it out. What they haven't mapped is h...
09/19/2026

Most mainland owners we talk to have already decided to hold the property and rent it out. What they haven't mapped is how it actually runs when they're five or six time zones away.

Hawaii is specific about one piece of that. An absentee landlord has to designate an agent who resides on the same island as the rental unit, and your tenant gets that person's name and address in writing, for rent, notices and demands.

The rest is structure you set in advance. Who can act at 2 a.m. Hawaii time. What your manager can spend without calling you first. How the property gets documented when you're not the one driving past it.

Swipe through for what travels and what has to be local.

Full guide: https://hicoastal.com/mainland-owner-guide-oahu-rental

General information for Hawaii rental owners. Not legal or tax advice.

Unhappy with your property manager but worried about disrupting a good tenant?That worry is the main reason Oʻahu owners...
09/12/2026

Unhappy with your property manager but worried about disrupting a good tenant?

That worry is the main reason Oʻahu owners stay put longer than they want to. In most cases it is misplaced.

Changing property management companies does not ordinarily change your tenant or your existing lease. Your manager is acting as your agent, so when the management agreement ends, the agency ends. The tenancy, the rent and the lease end date normally carry on.

What does matter is the handoff.

Your management agreement, not state law, sets the notice you owe and when you can leave, so read it before you give notice. Some renew automatically on an anniversary date and leave a narrow window each year.

Then it is about the records. Rent collection, the full tenant ledger, the security deposit accounting, move-in condition photos, keys and access devices, and any open work orders all need to move across with a written trail. Hawaii also requires your tenant to be told in writing who manages the property and where rent and notices go.

Time it with the rent cycle, keep the new manager's start date tight to the old one's last day, and tell your resident plainly that their lease is not changing.

We take over occupied tenancies regularly, so we have written up the whole process here: https://hicoastal.com/switch-property-management-companies-oahu

General information, not legal advice.

Can a landlord just raise the rent in Hawaii?Not overnight, no. There is no ordinary statewide percentage cap on residen...
09/05/2026

Can a landlord just raise the rent in Hawaii?

Not overnight, no. There is no ordinary statewide percentage cap on residential rent increases, so the amount is not capped by law. The timing is.

For most month-to-month tenants: 45 consecutive days' written notice before the new rent starts.
For week-to-week tenants: 15 consecutive days.

The part owners get wrong is the counting. You work backwards from the first day the higher rent is due, not forwards from the day you decided. A notice sent three days late costs you the increase for that whole month, because the old rent keeps running until a proper notice period has passed.

A couple of other things worth knowing. If your tenant is in a fixed-term lease, the rent generally cannot be repriced mid-term unless the lease says so. And you cannot raise the rent in retaliation for a tenant asking for repairs.

Whatever you send, keep a copy and a record of how and when it was delivered.

We have written the whole thing up here: https://hicoastal.com/hawaii-rent-increase-rules

General information, not legal advice.

We answered 86% of your calls last week. Our goal is 90%.Here is what happened while call volume jumped 26%:📞 1,492 call...
09/02/2026

We answered 86% of your calls last week. Our goal is 90%.

Here is what happened while call volume jumped 26%:

📞 1,492 calls
💬 5,472 messages
⏱️ 3,623 minutes on the phone
📉 Missed calls DOWN 11%

More people called. Fewer people got voicemail. That is not an accident, it is the metric we track every single week.

We are still 4 points short of our standard, and 42 of those missed calls came in after hours. That is one of the areas we are continuing to improve.

Because the real difference between property managers is not the website. It is whether anyone picks up.

Own a rental on Oahu? Call us and find out. 🌺

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500 Ala Moana Boulevard Ste 7-400
Honolulu, HI
96813

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