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Chief Operating Officer Tei Baishiki both came from Realty World; Chief Strategy Officer Keith Robinson worked for Better Homes and Garden Real Estate; Vice President of Sales Charis Moreno worked for Trulia, an online residential real estate site; and Vice President of Business Development Imran Poladi came from Keller Williams Realty.

When asked why a buyer or seller of residential real estate should come to NextHome Pacific Properties, Rosie is quick to explain.

“NextHome is a comprehensive, progressive company built for today and the future. Today, more than 92 percent of home buyers begin their search for properties and information on the Internet.

“Marketing your listings to the largest number of consumer-driven websites is essential to reach the broadest audience of home buyers. Our National Listings Distribution program displays your listings on hundreds of national sites to ensure maximum exposure. We just don’t market your home on Maui; we market the property to the whole world.

“Our agents are knowledgeable of the island and knowledgeable of the tools of the trade. They are honest and trustworthy, and it shows they go the extra mile for their clients.

“To all of us, they are not just a client, they are family and we treat them the way we would like to be treated. We give a lot of hands-on help for our agents, too. We train them, we have a beer with them, we cry with them.”

The Hogins are very proud of the fact that with the exception of agents who retired and agents who moved back to the Mainland, all their original agents from early ERA days are still with them and they now have 40 agents working for them. Their son, Joseph, grew up on Maui and married Jodi, a Maui-girl, and they both work for the family business as well.

One of their newer staff members, Michele Andrion the transaction coordinator, has only been with them since 2012, but she stepped into her role like she had been with the Hogins for years. She acts as support for the agents — she inputs their listings and monitors the escrow so they can focus on customer service.

“(Andrion) started the week my Mom passed away, and she has had my back ever since. I love her to death,” gushed Rosie.

With so much attention to detail in their business, it’s hard to imagine that Steve and Rosie do anything besides sell houses, but they are very active in www.ac-hawaii.com the community.

Steve has paddled with the Kihei Canoe Club for over 35 years.

Rosie is involved with the Board of Realtors, the Council of Aging for the County of Maui, and she loves to cook. She’s taken classes at the University of Hawaii Maui College, as well as taken advantage of programs the island hotels offered such as the “Chefs on Tour” culinary events.

“I even have one of Sam Choy’s woks,” chuckled Rosie proudly.

When prompted to elaborate, she explained that during one of the aforementioned “Chefs on Tour” events, Choy was the featured chef. Rosie, never to be described as shy and reserved, kept asking him questions to the point that he asked her to stop.

As often happens, at the end of the event, all the attendees were waiting for Choy to sign their cookbooks which they brought

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with them. Rosie waited along with everyone else, even though she forgot to bring her copy of Choy’s cookbook. When it was her turn, she started explaining how she forgot the book. He

A home’s inhabitants grow accustomed to odors that might be circulating throughout the house. Pet odor, for instance, might not be as strong to a home’s residents as it is to guests and prospective buyers. Because windows tend to stay closed in winter, interior odors can be was just finishing washing and drying the wok he used, so he looked at her, listened to her explanation, then handed his wok to her with a smile. She still has it and uses it to this day.