The Benefits of Working with Maui Realtor Bob Staples

There are over 1,400 licensed real estate agents on Maui.  That’s about 1% of the resident population and the source of jokes regarding the large number.  Their backgrounds are as diverse as their personalities.  There are few with the depth of professional background and technical disciplines as Bob Staples.  What sets Bob apart from the crowd?

Bob’s focus is on helping clients to better understand Maui’s real estate market, the inventory of available homes and investment properties, the trends in pricing and the historical rates of return on income producing properties. When Bob starts to work with a client, one of the first things they receive is a compendium of information in a bound booklet covering the fundamentals of buying or selling real estate on Maui. The content of these booklets is customized for buyers and sellers - Bob’s Maui Real Estate Buyers’ Guide and Bob’s Maui Real Estate Sellers’ Guide. In addition to the standard content outlined here, each booklet can be customized based on the needs expressed by the individual buyer or seller. “The material I provide is real analysis and information which will make your efforts to purchase or sell South Maui Real Estate easier and give you greater confidence in the process and the decisions you make along the way.” Bob has always been a strong believer in the adage “Information is King” which is why he treats his clients like Royalty when it comes to the efforts he expends to assure they are well informed.

These Net Cash Flow and IRR charts, also part of any customized Buyers’ or Sellers’ guide, address three key questions which frequently come up when discussing property values.  First, “What is the cash flow I can expect from a vacation rental property?”  The second, “What is the appreciation rate on this subdivision (or condo complex)?”  And finally, “What is the return on investment potential when it is sold?”  These are examples of the quality of analysis and presentation you will experience by working with Maui Realtor® Bob Staples.  If you have needs for specific analysis, Bob can produce it to meet your unique requirements.

The forum for buying and selling real estate today is quickly shifting to the Internet and with that is a dramatic shift in the skills required of real estate agents.  With years of computer experience working with a large variety of application programs, Bob’s knowledge and skills go well beyond most real estate agents.  Bob is an advanced user of Microsoft Office products, Excel, Word, Publisher, Power Point and Outlook.  He is also skilled in Adobe products including Photoshop (the leading photographic software) and Acrobat.  Combining these technical skills with Bob’s experience in communications provides you, the client, with a powerful marketing capability.  Add to this the savvy Bob has in Marketing on the World Wide Web and you have someone who can provide an unbeatable ability to Market Sellers’ properties or provide Buyers with unprecedented information on Maui real estate that matches there unique requirements.

Bob’s Guarantee to Sellers and Bob’s Guarantee to Buyers demonstrate the seriousness of his commitment to serve clients on either side of a real estate transaction. Today’s Buyers and Sellers can be anywhere in the World. Each year sees more and more buyers purchasing Maui real estate over the Internet without actually coming to Maui. The more capable a Realtor® is at closing the gap between the reality of being on Maui and the virtual reality of seeing Maui property over the Internet, the more successful his or her client will be at achieving their goal in buying or selling Maui real estate. Wherever you are, if you have internet access and an e-mail address, Bob can furnish everything you will need in formats such as acrobat (.pdf), photos in .jpg/.tif/.gif and files in any of the Microsoft Office suite of programs.

To assure he continues to deliver on these commitments to his clients, Bob has invested heavily in state of the art computer, telecommunications and publishing equipment, application software and an Internet presence that goes beyond that of virtually any other real estate agent.

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