Jon Anderson
An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.
It seemed straight-forward enough. Replace an old slide-in gas range with a new one. Not so fast. Of course, I began by researching which brand and model offered the best combination of reliability and performance (it’d be in a rental property so reliability is important). I trundled over to the library to check out Consumer…
While the views above are truly million dollar, they’re not wildly more expensive than during last year’s Hawaii special edition. Once again, I’m taking one for the team to scope out a favorite place for Texas second home buyers. In 2015, the state reported that 2.3 percent of all Hawaiian real estate was purchased by…
In Part One, you learned about the final plan to be delivered to the city by the Preston Center Task Force. It’s been two years in the making and cost $300,000 to produce a plan with little substance and holes a developer could drive a truck through. Here in part two, we’ll finish out by…
If I could sum up this final report by the Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan task force, it would be that it took two years and $300,000 to identify what will cost the city even more money and more time to actually attempt to solve. But that’s what you get when a group…
Hey Kitchen Aid, are you listening? Over 20 years ago, I sent you a résumé for some marketing job. In my cover letter, I was very specific in detailing a missed opportunity within the residential appliance market. You see, parent company Hobart had recently purchased commercial refrigeration maker Traulsen who had a thing called a…
