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Marketing the property well was a given. With internet presence galore, the MLS, Open Houses and a couple of ads it's no wonder my listing was in contract within a month. Even in a a slower market. I even helped my guy clean up and repair a couple of minor things so they signed off on the home inspection. Everything was going oh.....so too well. But... 'ship' happens.

So what exactly did happen?

• Passed the Home Inspection and even met them a second time to go over the minor repairs the seller and I completed.
• Addtional deposit was sent in to escrow after the completion/approval of the Home Inspection period.
• Appraisal came in on the money...we didn't doubt that one.
• All Association and Condominium Docs were signed and approved
• Buyers had Loan Approval (just Termite Inspection to be done)
• Seller already had an estimate for the movers and was to give his approval today.
• The Seller already put in a request for retiring from his job.
• The Selling agent was going to have a contractor paint for them.
• The buyers were excited up until ...yesterday.

No explanation. Just a call to their agent and escrow saying "cancelling the purchase contract. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Broken promises and lives disrupted. NO EXPLANATION. Even in their signed cancellation to escrow this morning. NO EXPLANATION. They even put in a stop payment for the additional deposit! My seller is VERY upset. Understandable.

Wow. The disregard these buyers had for the lives they disrupted.

Never a dull moment in real estate....pick up, move on.

Why?

No Explanation.

Double Petite Filet Mignon (about two inches thick) with sauteed onions and mushrooms for the main course with lightly grilled quarter cut potatoes on the side. My wonderful mom treated the whole family to dinner for my 51st Birthday. (I got around to writing this over a week late :)

Okay, so 51 years old wasn't as exciting as the half a century mark last year but the dinner at Assagio's Ristorante Italiano in Mililani Town Hawaii was superb!

It's always an entertaining session when we go out with mom, my son and daughter. Hmmm...seems the kids always manage to get a meal off one of us LOL!

Assagio's Restaurant at the Town Center in Mililani has an interesting history:

• In 1979 Chinese Thomas Ky's family chose him as the person to go to America after struggling on the outskirts of Saigon.
• On a crammed boat of 200 people he traveled to Malaysia and then spent nine months in a camp.
• He was sent to a foster home in Statton Island, NY went to school and worked hard six days a week and fourteen hours a day to send money home to his family.
• He came to Hawaii in 1984 (six months before he was to graduate from high school) to live with a relative because he thought he would be more successful being closer to Asian traditions.
• Starting literally from scratch he became a successful owner of SEVEN Restaurants here on Oahu.

Assagio's in Mililani opened in 1994 and our family has enjoyed many a meal here. From Italian pasta dishes to linguini chicken anchovy olio to filet mignon Assagio's is fine dining at it's best. If your preference is a nice Ceasar salad it is prepared table side.

If you are ever in Mililani Town and want a relaxing atmosphere with quality food Assagio's Ristorante Italiano is definitely a mouth watering event!

Phone for reservations: (808) 625-5115

© 2008 Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman's Hawaii Real Estate and Relocation Blog. All rights reserved.

Rinnnggg! "Mom! Whatcha doing mommmmm"? (my daughter with her little squeachy high soft voice) Me: Uh, on my way to escrow to drop off papers. Where are you? Her: Ross store. Me: Kay...I'll come over there.

Rinnnggg. "Hey, Mom. Can I come over and fax something"? (My son...needing me for something. Good. At least he's calling) Me: Okay...meet me at the office...I'm next door with Dori at Ross.

ME: Well, I guess we can go out to lunch?

Both kids: Cool! And they're already out the office door and running to MY car. (we all drove separate cars)

Known for it's "Serious Salad Bar", Ruby Tuesday at the Mililani Town Center has been the ever so popular place for 'casual dining' since it opened in 2004. Ruby Tuesday is a mainland based chain with southern and southwest dishes to get those taste buds going!

Ruby Tuesday won the 2004 'ILIMA AWARD WINNER - CASUAL DINING

Old sports knicknacks line the walls of Ruby Tuesday and they are accented with old Hawaii photos to create more authenticity to the theme.

It's a special place. Why? Good food and most likely it's more special because my daughter works there and in Mississippi too :)

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Typhoon Shrimp for Appetizers, Steaks for all of us with loaded baked potatoes and fresh steamed broccoli.

One and a half hours and back to the hustle bustle. I dropped them back at their cars with "love you's!" flying in the wind. We all have busy lives and when we can get together on a spur of the moment whim...it's well worth it.

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The To Go Menu: Yup...order and park in the To Go parking spaces in front and they run out with your food to take home :)

Catering Menu How many in your party? Order, pick up and PARTY TIME!

Ruby Tuesday Mililani
95-1249 Mehe' Ula Parkway
Mililani, Hawaii 96789
Telephone: 808.623.4949

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© 2008 Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman's Hawaii Real Estate and Relocation Blog. All rights reserved.

Mililani Town was voted the All America City in 1986 and it is the only community in Hawaii to ever receive this distinction.

My parents bought their new home in Mililani in 1971 and I was just starting high school. To this day my mom still lives in the same house and my son and daughter grew up in that same house too. From Kindergarten to High School the Mililani Community and Schools served us well. My children just came back home within the past two years and help my mom (who just turned 80 in January of this year) out.

With 7...yes SEVEN Recreation Centers there is fun for all ages! (Recreation Center #7 just opened on the Mililani Mauka side of Miliani) Starting from Tiny Tots (18 mos. to 3 years) there is circle time, arts and crafts. Then there is Tai Chi, Karate, Yoga, Self Defense and even learning the Hula (Hawaiian Dance) for all ages. There is Movie Night and Teen Night and all sorts of fun so get in on the socializing with the community!

With a variety of programs around the Mililani Community the latest addition is the NEW Mililani Town Association Senior Citizens Club Program! Held Monday through Fridays everyone will be meeting at the Recreation Center #2 for an hour and the following classes will rotate each day:

• Sit & Fit: Slow, simple and easy exercises! Using chairs for standing and sitting support, the use of hand held weights and elastic tubing with handles, these simple excercises will surely keep you active and fit!
• Walking Group: Let's go for an outdoor walk around the Mililani Town Community!
• Water Walking: A really great way to exercise, this class uses water as resistance with aqua bells, noodles and joggers. Cool off while keeping fit as a fiddle!
• Hula-robics: Fun with the Art of Hula (Hawaiian Dance) while doing the basic moves of the Hula.
• Activity Day: A variety of activities such as crafts, bingo days, excursions, guest speakers, dances, coffee hours,
  potlucks and much more.

Call the MTA Admin Office at 623-7300 to be put on the class list. When there is enough interest you will be notified by the Recreation Manager and classes will begin!

Days: Monday thru Friday
Times: 10 am to 11 am
Place: Recreation Center 2
Fee: $35 with valid MTA ID card
$40 with valid MTA sponsor

Mililani Community, Honolulu County, Oahu, Hawaii.

© 2008 Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman's Hawaii Real Estate and Relocation Blog. All rights reserved

It's hard to believe how fast time flies. When I first moved to Mililani, back in 1977, I was a young 26 year old, enjoying life as a freewheeling mortorcylce salesman. Mililani was the first Planned Community in Hawaii, and it was planted "way out" in the pineapple and sugar cane fields in what has now become Central Oahu. Back then, it was "the boonies".

Driving home after dark used to be a lonely trek down the unlit two lane road, part of Kam Hwy (Kamehameha Highway for the tourists), until the H-2 freeway was built. The first phase of the freeway got you to the Waipahu exit, at which point you jumped back onto Kam Hwy, drove past the sugar cane on your right, pineapple on the left and on through Kipapa Gulch into Mililani. Once in a while an owl would swoop out of the trees and float across the road, momentarily brightened by your headlights. On dark rainy nights, the Bufos (fieled toads) would come out to the roads edge and stare up at the sky, soaking in the gentle rains.

Little by little, the planned community took shape. On my routine jogging route, I would run past the Mililani Shopping Center, the first evidence that an actual community was taking shape. Anchored by McDonalds, the fire station, and Foodland Super Market, the community soon began to spread across both sides of Kam Hwy.

The Mililani Golf Course soon had an entire neighborhood on the south side, and Meheula Parkway was extended another mile from the highway. Halfway down the Parkway, the Mililani Market Place sprung up, with a Safeway supermarket and a Long's Drug Store. Across from the Marketplace, the Mililani Parkway Apartments sprang up, just behind the Hokuahi'ahi apartment complex. Next came the Mililani Town Center, with Star Supermarket, another Longs Drug store, and a three plex-theater. At last, no need to drive twenty miles into town to go to the movies!

Now, some thirty years later, the Star Market and Longs drugstore are just a minor part of the Mililani Town Center. There is now a WalMart, a fourteen-plex theater, a Starbucks, a slew of fast food outlets, restaurants, shops, businesses and a bus terminal to boot. There are pizza parlours, a home improvement center, banks and a Radio Shack. I still take my routine jogs, but now when I cross Kam Hwy, I have to wait at the stoplights. Wait for the lights to change, to sequence through the left turn for one direction, then for the other; wait for the oncoming traffic to cycle through, then for the cross traffic.

When I jog down the tree lined streets, I see some of the trees that are bent from when hurricane Iwa blew the immature trees in 1982, just enough to lean them slightly, not enough to knock them down. Then there were the ones that, having grown bigger, were brought down by Hurricane Iniki in November 1992.

Mililani is no longer the sleepy little bedroom community that it was thirty years ago. It's now a a vibrant bustling planned growth suburban neighborhood, with all the conveniences of shopping and entertainment, a location that is central to anywhere on Oahu, close to Schofield and Hickam Air Field Military bases, and yet still maintains the hometown atmosphere I remember when I first moved here in 1977. The trees are matured, the homes that were so new when I first moved here are now often being remodeled, with new additions and second floors. The little children have grown up and now have children of their own, attending the same elementary schools they went to as kids.

Oh, Home, Sweet Home!