Aloha,     My name is John Petrella.  I am an Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR®), Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource (SFR), a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (GRI) and a full time licensed BROKER REALTOR® in the State of Hawaii.  My Hawaii License number is RB-18892.     Prior to my career in Real Estate, I managed and taught on the East Coast of the United States for over 20 years in a engineering research and teaching facility for a major university in down town Washington DC.  For summer fun I worked at NASA/GSFC on remote sensing projects, and participated in field studies in Oklahoma, Alabama and Maryland.  Before my engineering career at the university, I served several years in the USAF as a technician. While in the USAF, I was stationed in Alaska (6 miles above the Arctic Circle!), Alabama, Arkansas, Montana, Mississippi, Texas, Germany and Korea.     I know first hand what it is like to move to the Big Island, buy land and then build a home.  I am so very happy to call the Big Island home!  

     Contact my Brokerage with your Real Estate needs and let me put the Professional REALTORS® at Local Hawaii Real Estate to work for you! 

     We represent our Clients with Honesty, Integrity and Commitment.

Here is a copy of the front of my business card:

Here is a copy of the back of my business card:

My sign was designed to bring attention to your property and it has just one phone number on it for interested persons to call.

     I am Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR®), a Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource (SFR), a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (GRI) and a full time licensed BROKER REALTOR® in the State of Hawaii with an Engineering, Research and Teaching background.  I have used my experience, skills and rigorous training to represent the best interests of my Real Estate clients in millions of dollars of transactions involving homes, condos, co-ops, and land.       In March of 2007 I opened a Full Service Brokerage in Old Town and Historic Hilo, Hawaii.  The name of our Modern and High Tech Brokerage is Local Hawaii Real Estate.  The Professional REALTOR® Salespersons associated with our Local Hawaii Real Estate office are:

Galyn WilliamsLarkin HathawayTrevella WilliamsWinston Churchill

Our mission is to represent our Clients with Honesty, Integrity and Commitment.Our office is located in Old Town Hilo (click to view map):  166 Kilauea Avenue

Our web address (click to view our web site):  LocalHawaiiRealEstate.com

Here is a chart that shows how we placed out of 158 offices that reported vacant land sales on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2008.  

     Here is a chart that shows how we placed out of 219 Brokerages that reported home, condo & vacant land sales on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2009. 

     Our Local Hawaii Real Estate Logo is two geckos.  Hawaii legend has it that when a person needed advice on important matters that they took a walk in the forest and visited a giant lizzard like creature for its advice. This guardian or protector is called aumakua in Hawaiian.  By Hawaii Law, it is our job to protect the public from fraud in a Real Estate Transaction.

     We use two geckos in our Local Hawaii Real Estate logo because two is the minimum amount of people that is needed in any Real Estate transaction.  A buyer and a seller.