renting a home

I am interested in renting a home on or near a beach in Maui. Three or four bedrooms. Any ideas, or any good experiences with a travel agent.

renting a home

You could start with vrbo.com

But a word of warning, make sure they are legit and have papers saying so. Lots of illegal rentals are being shut down. What a shame to get there to find out you have no place to stay.

renting a home

Google Maui News and go to their classified advertising section. Get the straight scoop from the landlords -- address, price, amenities. Then go to GoogleEarth and take a look at the property%26#39;s physical layout and placement on the island.

This should get you started.

hawaiibound.com/Five_Star_Villas/Mango%20Sur…

I spent the last week or so looking for a 3 or 4 bedroom as well and finally decided on a 3bd/3ba condo at The Kaanapali Plantation which is not on the beach but will work great for my sisters family.

With all my searching I found many great places way out of my range. . so to start off what is your budget. . .i%26#39;m happy to share what I found. Also, I am a member of TUG (timeshare users group) and they helped me in my search quite a bit. .finding sites and such with what I was looking for.

What is your budge for how many nights or amount you would like to spend per night. I%26#39;ll let you know what I found if it%26#39;s with in range of what I came across.

Oh and of course, WHEN are you going?

We too always like to rent a home and did a lot of research before going to Maui. I found this island to be the least likely to rent a house on. We do a lot of running so I am always on the road going in and out of neighborhoods. Maui seems to have mostly condos. We stayed in Kapalua, Hana and Makena. If I were to look for a home I would look in Makena there were some beautiful homes along the beach....it looked like some were for sale but not sure if they for rent. Good luck.....it drove me crazy when we were looking and then we just settled for a condo and were just as happy.

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Not every vacation rental home has to have a permit to be legal. If the vacation rental is in an area not zoned for rentals, like ag land, then, yes, you have to have a conditional use permit.

But, some vacation rental homes are properly zoned (condo zoning for example) and don%26#39;t need a permit. Others have been doing rentals long enough to be grandfathered and don%26#39;t need a permit either. Off the top of my head, I think a rental needs to have been operating since before 1993ish to be grandfathered. And there are also homes, whose owners had their applications for permits on file with the county, that are suing because they were promised the chance to stay open until their permits were processed. A lot of these homes are still open and the county hasn%26#39;t shut them down because of the lawsuit.

When renting a home, just be up front and ask about the status of the home. Is it permitted, zoned properly, or grandfathered? If so then you should feel secure in your rental. If the owner is involved in the lawsuit, then there is the chance they could get shut down, but that most likely won%26#39;t happen until the outcome of the lawsuit is determined. The county is already overwhelmed by this whole thing and they just don%26#39;t seem to want to mess around with those owners.

Hey There,

vrbo.com is great as is Homeaway.com. Good Luck.

AJ

Hey There,

vrbo.com is great as is Homeaway.com. Good Luck.

AJ

There was a post recently from someone planning to rent Dolphin House, oceanfront, right in Kihei. I%26#39;d hoped they would report on it as it seemed nice, although it backs right ON Kihei Road.