Naomi Watts helped us buy a home in Hawaii. We live in California and we're very concerned about…read morebuying a house so far away, but dealing with Naomi was wonderful. She first found out what we were looking for and then proceeded to find a number of homes that she thought we might like. Since we are still in California, she took some of our family members to see the homes. She had a wonderful knowledge of property values and neighborhoods and what to expect. With her invaluable help we found the perfect home at a wonderful price! Thank you Naomi!

Donn was our AMAZING realtor! He went above and beyond to make sure we found a home that perfectly…read moresuited our needs. As first-time homebuyers, we had a lot of questions, and he was always there with answers, guidance, and support every step of the way. Thank you, Donn, for your top-notch service and for making this process as smooth and stress-free as possible. We truly appreciate everything you did for us and highly recommend Donn Hakoda to anyone looking to buy or sell a home!

Call at once whatever your home needs. Kat and her well trained team can do most everything. Or…read moreon the off-chance you are calling about a home improvement project, remodel challenge or to fix something she does not, she will know great hand picked people who can and will. Great project manager - She communicates super well, does exactly what she says she will do, when she says she will do it, and if others are involved, she supervises well and checks all the work. She has a remarkable array of well-honed, high-level building skills herself though, and has loads of experience. She has managed my vacation home on the Big Island for several years now, and does a wonderful job dealing with all the exigencies of vacation rental including dealing in a friendly manner with extremely difficult renters. Two other special qualities of hers are beautiful aesthetic sense, and her reliability across the board in everything. She matches the look and feel of a place in all her furnishing and decor work and she makes wonderful additions and suggestions to enhance a home environment. I have been blessed to work with some really great reliable people there, but Kat takes the prize in the reliability, and quick response department too. Yeah, definitely, call Kat!

Great quality work completed by Robin and his team. Been wanting to get this little project of…read moregetting some ceiling fans install in our house (all the bedrooms and living room). Robin was very professional and Tina helped me with any questions on selection of the fans, pricing and working with us. Highly recommend Big Island Home and Garage for small and big projects.

We recently bought a new home and needed to do some renovations converting the garage to a living…read morespace, building a full outdoor bathroom, leveling the entire back yard and build a free standing carport from scratch, Husband and wife team, Robin and Tina are exceptional in their work ethic. They do an amazing job and most importantly, they think ahead and on behalf of you. When you work with contractors or handymen, very often, you have to supervise and watch their every move and tell them what to do. Not with Robin and Tina. You're hiring and working with thinkers because Rob is an attorney by training and Tina has been an entrepreneur her whole life. This combination means people who have the ability to see the big picture and also know how and what it takes to have the little pieces in between all fit to bring to life what you envision for your build outs. They are incredibly reasonable in their pricing and they don't nickel and dime you for every little thing. Honestly, we are so incredibly lucky to have found them.

Came all the way down to Kalapana to open my Jeep after I had called five other locksmiths who were…read moreunavailable/not wanting to come. Great price too. Mahalo Braddah!

Great service, quick response, fair pricing!!! Family owned and operated. I felt like they treated…read moreme as family!

Poppy responded promptly and was a great problem-solver. I highly recommend Hilo Locksmith.read more

Poppy is very efficient and friendly. Solved my key situation very quickly within a few hours of…read morecalling. I highly recommend Hilo Locksmith. Am sharing this business with my friend and family network here in Hilo and will always go to Hilo Locksmith for any lock/key needs!

These guys do a fantastic job. They were hired to survey my land in order to resolve a boundary…read moredispute. The price is very fair, they do their job very well, they have been great with communication, and they have been so professional. Thanks you guys!

Hired Mr. Berg, recommended to us by our real estate agent, for staking/survey of a piece of land…read morein Hawaii that needed to be sold belonging to an estate. He's very busy, but he was able to get to us a week sooner than promised. Price was as quoted, no hidden fees or charges. The price quotes were clear and shared in advance. Deposit was made, job was scheduled and completed, and he even finished the report about a week ahead of schedule. Was a great experience from start to finish. If I had any more lots to sell in Hawaii, I'd be using DLB & Associates for the staking/surveys. Thanks Mr. Berg.

Nicolette and the team at Big Island Brokers are absolutely amazing…read more Let me set the stage - My wife and I have been looking to buy a home in Hawaii a while and finally have our ducks in a row financially and the motivation to move forward. In our copious research we stumbled upon a youtube channel for a local realtor that had a lot of really good info, including monthly updates in the market conditions on the Big Island. We think "hey, let's reach out to these people" and so we do. We then email these folks and wait.... Days go by.... We email a different person tangently related to the agent we were trying to reach and she gets us all in contact. Ok, great. A few emails back and forth, but each time we are waiting days to hear back. Starting to get bad feelings about it and like we are almost a bother to this realtor. We book a trip from the mainland to Big Island to come look. Set up our times and meet our agent. She's personable, sure. She takes us out for 2 days looking at many properties. There are a few we have some extra questions about and she makes some notes. After our 2 days looking at properties we take a few days to discuss and reach out to our agent.... Crickets. We go back to the mainland feeling frustrated. Email our agent about some prospects, nothing back. Trying to set up a return trip to the island we reach out again trying to book some time to look at places and asking about times and showings. We get a one word email back "sure". So why the great review? Well.... None of that happened with Big Island Brokers or Nicolette. Instead we called our friend in HPP and asked who he used when they bought their house 4 years ago. That's right, they used Big Island Brokers and he gave us a contact there who set us up with Nicolette. Nicolette called us while she was on vacation to say hi, introduce herself, and let us know she was thrilled to work with us. We set up a meet for when we were on island next and sent her a bunch of listings we had seen and our thoughts, along with listings we wanted to see coming up. Truth be told I basically just took the email we had sent to our previous agent (the one I got a 1 word response to) and modified it slightly to send to Nicolette. Nicolette finished her vacation and then sent us a wonderful email with detailed answers to our questions along with some insight we hadn't gotten previously into the areas we were interested in. We exchanged emails back and forth and made a game plan for our next trip on island. We then crammed in 30 some odd tours of properties in 2 days to maximize our time on island and found the perfect house with Nicolette. One that wasn't even really on our radar that cancelled our showing one of the days but she squeezed back into our schedule on day 2. We went back to see just that house a few days later and pulled the trigger. Nicolette has been very personable, communicative, friendly and made us feel like old friends. She has connections with local folks to help us get our next steps lined up too with respect to local trades and always made us a priority without ever coming off as trying to push us into anything. If you happen upon my review, look up Nicolette at Big Island Brokers. She and the entire team there will do right by you too. I am positive of that.

Sophia Douvris -- remember that name! My sisters and I decided to sell an undeveloped lot on the…read moreBig Island that had been in the family since shortly after Hawaii became a state in 1959. Real estate transactions are rarely smooth and easy, but the usual challenges and logistical headaches were exacerbated by several factors, including both sellers and buyers residing on the Mainland and having to adhere to Hawaii's real estate laws and procedures. There were several obstacles to overcome, not the least of which was old paperwork showing that there was a "flume" on the property left by the long-shuttered sugar factory (thankfully, a third party discovered that the flume was a mile away). I don't know how we could've managed what at times seemed like an impossible ordeal if it weren't for our Big Island real estate agent, Sophia Douvris. From our introductory email through the close of escrow, she was patient, kind, efficient, and good natured while having to navigate a thicket of procedural hurdles, communicate with three elderly people 2500 miles away, and deal with various legal/financial/administrative issues. Throughout, she clearly articulated comprehensive explanations, sometimes by succinctly putting the situation in the context of changes in Hawaiian and global commerce. She was diligent, professional, and forthcoming, and she made the process as pain-free as humanly possible. Sophia is proof that there are still some good-hearted, dedicated, conscientious people doing business these days. She's absolutely the best, and my sisters and I will forever be grateful to her.