Tag: Wahiawa

Buy 1790 Walea Uka Place in Wahiawa

Buy the most beautiful home on Oahu!

Watch the Video about my house here.

Zillow listing is here.

1790 Walea Uka Place: Yours for $799,888.

Welcome to your garden oasis in Wahiawa Heights!

• 3 bed 1 bath main home
• 1 bed 1 bath ohana dwelling
• 5,000 sq ft yard planted with a mature food forest
• Spacious deck
• Cement pad for shed or BBQ area
• Long driveway easement with parking for 4 vehicles

Description:

A charming 3 bed 1 bath house with a neighboring one-bedroom Ohana dwelling sit at the end of a peaceful cul-de-sec in Wahiawa Heights. This property will keep your grocery bills low with mature fruits trees and great soil for planting vegetables.

No Home Owners Association (HOA) ensures that you can have any plants or pets you want, including backyard ducks or chickens for eggs. Some of the mature fruiting plants include: Dragon fruit (5 varieties), papaya, peach, plum, avocado (two varieties), apricot, nectarine, and mulberry. Front yard beds are also full of everbearing strawberries and everbearing heritage raspberries, and a green grape vine which yielded six pounds of grapes this summer. The previous property owner had a green thumb, so some rare plants are nestled in this yard, including a blue jade vine.

With a large outdoor deck, there is ample room for socializing. A cement pad in the yard could be used for a shed, gazebo, or additional patio for BBQs and entertaining. All chain link fencing belongs to the property, and only the small section of wooden fence and plastic fence in the front yard and around the Ohana dwelling are owned by neighboring properties.

The home has been lovingly cared for with regular maintenance. Appliances have all been upgraded in the last two years. The roof was updated this year, and the home has fresh paint inside and out.

Some special features include an outdoor shower with both hot and cold water, a cement soaking tub for laundry, a carport for up to two cars, and a long driveway easement for added guest parking. A second set of washer/dryer hookups in the carport provides a 220 electrical outlet that could be used to charge an electric car. This cul-de-sac is quiet and peaceful, in a close-knit neighborhood where the children play together in the street. It is a rare oasis from the hustle and bustle of Oahu life.

Newly Remodeled Bathroom

Living Room and Dining Room

Three Spacious Bedrooms

Kitchen

Laundry Room

Ohana Dwelling

Outdoor Shower

Some of the Back Yard

Some of the food from the yard

New roof being put on in January of 2025.

The new roof comes with a 7-year warranty from True Home, and I added siloxone sealant to it after it was installed to ensure that it would last a long time.

We also have the last surveyor’s report, and the stakes are still in place at the property boarders.

If Interested call Ray: (808) 495-1571

Wahiawa: Paradise on Earth. Just don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret.

The Big Move to the Big Island


The State of Hawaii (or the Kingdom of Hawaii, depending on who you ask) is made up of 137 islands, islets, and shoals. However, there are seven islands which are generally recognized as the main islands:

Hawaii (also called the Big Island), Oahu, Maui, Niihau, Molokai, Kauai, and Lanai.

Though I have family on Maui, I have been living on the most populated island for the last seven years. Oahu was our home, and the town of Wahiawa was such a charming, wonderful community that we hated to leave.

However, Oahu is an expensive island. Not as expensive as Maui, perhaps. But, more than I can afford right now.

In search of a more affordable place for the flock and myself, we made the move to Hawaii Island, nicknamed “The Big Island.”


Hawaii Island is very large, which means land is more affordable. This isn’t without risk. After all, this is the island with the volcano on it. However, there should also be many rewards.

For the ducks, I am excited to spend time at less crowded beaches and rivers. It’s been very scary to have dogs sicced on us, have people attack us, and generally be subject to the lack of Aloha on Oahu. It’s the city island. You can’t go anywhere on the island and be alone. It’s expensive and crowded, and though many people there are kind, many aren’t.

For me, I am excited to have more job opportunities, more affordable housing, and a slower lifestyle like I lived in Guam.

I loved my garden in Wahiawa. I loved the weather and my bedroom and my job at the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System. But, change is a normal part of life, and you have to admit, it was unusual for me to stay in one place for seven years…

Here’s to the next adventure!


All the foster peeps were adopted, and it’s just Catarina La Pata Mascota, Chaos Duck, Amelia DuckPond, Betty DuckPage, Lucky Ducky, and Sizzle with me now.

The Wahiawa Pineapple Festival


Pineapples are not from Hawaii, but don’t tell that to the residents of Wahiawa. In our town, this transplant is royalty. Every year, people gather to celebrate this South American fruit, and it’s close relationship with Wahiawa for more than 100 years.

The name Wahiawa means “place of noise” in Hawaiian, and people certainly made some noise for the “Chee Hoo” competition, paper airplane throw, and other events. The Wahiawa Pineapple Festival has a very different feel than a Waikiki festival marketed to tourists. This is a goofy, small town event that shows off our town spirit.

Some say Wahiawa is nothing but tattoo shops, pawn shops, and smoke shops. They think of our town as a place of chain link fences and big dogs. Yet, when I look out at my street, I see the neighborhood kids playing. My mailman knows me as the weird duck lady. I’ve never had a package stolen off my porch. To me, Wahiawa is a safe place full of good people, and that is what you see on parade at the Pineapple Festival. Good -if mischievous and silly- people having fun.

The Pineapple Festival organizers hope to raise money so that our town can build it’s own museum. This land has been grazed by cattle, settled by strangers, used by royalty for battle training, and been appropriated by the United States federal government for military bases. We’re known for the Dole Pineapple plantation, but this place of noise has a long history that should be preserved.

If you ask me, the main reason to go to the pineapple festival is for the food. I’ll be honest: I don’t like pineapples. (Sacrilege, I know.) However, Wahiawa has some of the best lunch wagons and restaurants on island. Our population is very diverse, and that means our food is the best of everywhere rolled up together from Japanese cakes to tacos.

Of course, we also have everything pineapple.


The Dole Whip is the star of the show. The popular confection is sold all year at the Dole tourist attraction.

Dole used to farm huge tracts of land so that pineapple fields stretched from the mountains almost all the way to the sea. Dole sold most of this land to farm pineapples in more cost-effective places. These days, they only farm enough land to support the tourist attraction, which is very popular with visitors.

It may be a small festival in a small town, but the Wahiawa Pineapple Festival really is a good time every year. I’d recommend it to anyone -islanders and tourists alike. The small-town feel is reminiscent of old Hawaii and echoes back to a simpler time when people got together to eat, laugh, and have a nice day with their families. There are things to buy, but that’s not what it’s all about. It’s about the games, the baking competition, and the local high school drama club doing interpretive dances (in full Goth regalia in spite of the heat). My family actually comes from Maui, in the Makawao area. But, I love living in Wahiawa and -if you ask me- it’s the hidden gem of Hawaii.