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Big Island Rental Management

Hawaii Equity Management LLC

The only company in this entire dataset that prints a number before you call. Its service list is long-term tenancy management, so read the 10% against that scope — not against a nightly-turnover operation.

What the company publishes about itself

• Publishes its management fee outright: 10% of collected rents.
• States no other fees and cancellation at any time with no cancellation fee.
• Core business is long-term rental management: tenant screening and advertising, monthly accounting statements and payments, existing-lease and Section 8 handling, market-pricing consultation.
• Takes vacation-rental and commercial management on a selective basis.

What that service list implies

A service list is a claim about labour, not about price. Read it as a list of jobs somebody has agreed to own, then ask which of them are done by staff on the payroll and which are handed to a subcontractor in the week your guests arrive. Both answers are legitimate; only one of them gives the company direct control of the schedule when three properties turn over on the same morning.

Published service area

the Hilo, Puna and Kona districts, with Kaʻū and remote locations quoted at a higher fee.

That is a wide published footprint. Reach has genuine advantages — depth of booking channels, cover when one team is stretched, experience across building types — but it also means the honest question to ask is how many staff sit in your specific market rather than across the portfolio. The markets on this site where that service area applies are linked in the sidebar; each one lists the other companies publishing coverage there, so you can see who this company is actually competing against on your street rather than across the state.

Reading the fee line

This company publishes a rate, which makes it the rare case where you can do arithmetic before a phone call. Read the number against the scope it covers — a published percentage attached to a narrow service list is not automatically cheaper than an unpublished one attached to a wide one. Whatever number you are eventually quoted, three things decide what it really costs: the base it is calculated on, the list of work billed on top, and whether tax filings are inside or outside the service. Those three questions are worth more than a percentage point of negotiation.

Where this fits

A long-stay operation: its published service list is tenancy management — screening, rent collection, statements — rather than nightly turnovers. Read its fee against that scope. Its fee is the one published number in this dataset, which makes it the only company here you can compare on price without a phone call.

Our own pick for management is One Fine BnB — Airbnb property management services — chosen because it publishes 20% full-service, 10% on the partner tier, plus a one-time onboarding retainer before a sales call. That is a different claim from saying it is the right company for your building, which only a quote can settle.

How it sits in this dataset

We have verified 19 Hawaiʻi companies from their own websites. Of those, 17 publish a vacation-rental operation and 2 publish a long-stay tenancy operation; exactly 1 publishes a management rate. In the markets this company names, it overlaps with 4 other verified companies — ResorticaHawaii, South Kohala Management, Knutson & Associates, Coldwell Banker Island Vacations. Those are the quotes worth putting side by side with this one.

None of that ranks this company against the others by service quality, because service quality is not something a website can prove. It does tell you which conversations are worth having in parallel: if two companies publish overlapping service areas and similar operations, run both quotes at once and compare the exclusion lists rather than the headline numbers.

Questions to put to this company

Written for this profile specifically — the first two follow from what the company does and does not publish above.

1. Do you take nightly or short-stay bookings at all, or is your operation entirely tenancy-based? The published service list here reads as tenancy management.
2. Your site publishes 10% of collected rents (published). What sits outside that number: consumables, linen, deep cleans, project management on repairs, anything else?
3. How many properties do you currently manage, and how many staff cover them?
4. How long have you been operating in this specific market, and what did you do before?
5. Can I see a redacted owner statement from a real month, so I can see the line items rather than the summary?
6. If we part ways, what happens to the listing, the reviews and the repeat-guest list?
7. Which general excise and transient accommodations filings do you handle, and are they inside the management fee or billed separately?

The first ninety days with any new manager

Whether you end up here or somewhere else, the handover is where money leaks and where the relationship is actually set. Agree in writing who honours bookings already on the calendar and at what rate, who holds guest deposits taken before the switch, exactly when codes and keys change hands, and what happens to reviews and the listing itself if you later part ways. Then set a review date ninety days out and put three questions on it: how many times did I have to intervene personally, did the statements arrive when they said they would, and did anything appear on an invoice that I had not been told about in advance.

Those three answers tell you more than a year of nightly-rate charts. A manager who scores well on them is doing the job you are paying for, whatever the headline percentage turned out to be.

What we could not verify

We did not audit this company's service quality, and nothing here should be read as a claim about it. We have not seen its contract, its statements, its insurance, or its staffing rota. What we have done is read what it publishes, record it with the source, and mark the gaps as gaps. If you are this company and something here is out of date, or we have misread your page, write to us: we re-read the source and correct in place.