In july of 2014, i called a few real estate salespeople in the hawaii area to find a rental for the upcoming holiday season. I told the agents that i wanted to rent a home for december and spend no more than $2300 for the month. I decided to go with one agent on securing a house in the manoa area after i fell in love with it and got it for a steal at $2100 for the month. The agent who i did not use but showed me around that summer to a few vacation rentals that would be available in december of that year was very angry with me that i did not use him for the rental of the properties he showed me and decided to go along with the manoa agents rental for my next upcoming vacation.
Kimo
Honolulu,#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Wed, April 25, 2018
As the Principal Broker of Sandwich Isles Realty and a Realtor since 2000, I have never been more appalled at what I am reading. This is clearly some angry, internet troll looking to tarnish my stellar reputation.
A simple search of my name will pull up a much more realstic and reputable review site (i.e. Yelp) with currently 12 five-star reviews: yelp.com/biz/kimo-smigielski-sandwich-isles-realty-honolulu
I would also dare to say, where is the proof in this statement? There is no evidence and I would be happy to give anyone full access to my email, phone log and text chat which date back to 2005 (thank you Gmail and Apple) to show I have nothing to hide.
I am NOT a racist, we live in Hawaii, how the hell can you be racist here? I am not even WHITE, I am a mix of Thai and Polish. Queue up the Polak jokes. I myself am a minority being Asian American in the United States. So let's start with that. Let's start with the fact that I have friends of every background, social status, sexual orientation (my marketing director is a gay male) and work with clients from around the globe.
Second, let's look at some facts. I DO NOT handle vacation rentals in the price range that was mentioned. I only handle vacation rentals in Kahala Beach (starting at $5,000 plus taxes/fees per month), the Canterbury Place in Waikiki (starting at $5,000 plus taxes/fees per month) and two residential homes starting at $14,000 plus taxes/fees per month.
Nothing in my inventory even comes close to what this person/troll is talking about.
Third, I repeatedly refer inquiries off to OTHER brokerages that handle a larger pool of vacation rental properties than I do. I'm happy to refer them to Elite Vacation Rentals, Trinity Properties, Captain Cook Resorts, Ali'i Beach Rentals or Gold Coast Real Estate. Vacation rentals is a small portion of my business. In 2017 my residential sales volume was $18 million in sales, that is my true passion and focus.
Lastly, just look at how this "report" was written, the sheer syntax of this shows that it was generated by a bot that simply cut/paste my name into a script. I quote, "KIMO SMIGIELSKI was that other agent. He called me a salesperson loving punjabi and a f***ing f*****. " Let's look at why just my name is CAPITALIZED when in a sentence, almost as if it was inserted into a troll-generated script? Second, what sort of insult is a "salesperson loving..."? Why would I call someone a salesperson? That is a generic keyword used to identify a Realtor in most cases, again, showing that this was generated by a troll into a script to post online.
In summary, this website is a fraud as is this post. It allows anyone to publicly lie and pass that off as a "review" and doesn't allow the truth to come out nor allow me to get this clearly fake post removed.
That's fine though, it's amusing to me. See, this is what a real review would be written like by a non-robot troll. Real sentences that make sense.