About Me

Steve Marcotte founded A Piece of Paradise vacation rentals and real estate sales on Hawaii's Big Island in 1993! Recently he moved to Waikiki, formed Hawaii Second Homes, specializing in second homes and vacation rentals.

Steve Marcotte began his experience with real estate when he bought a 2-story home in Connecticut at age 23. He and his family lived on the first floor and he rented the second floor to pay the mortgage. He was pleasantly surprised when the value of the home doubled in a short period of time. This experience has been repeated multiple times since then.
 
He became a computer programmer and eventually formed his own consulting company in the Boston area. In 1989 Sun Microsystems offered Steve a job and moved him to his home town of Palo Alto, California. While a software engineer at Sun Steve was introduced to the internet. In 1992 he visited Hawaii to record music in a studio on Hawaii Island. Stepping off the plane at the Hilo airport, Steve says he immediately felt at home.

On another recording trip a few months later a small cottage came up for sale in the Kapoho Beach Lots community where the band was staying. He jumped on the opportunity immediately as he had the desire to own a vacation rental property ever since visiting Jamaica many years ago. He then started renting The Cottage via the internet and was one of the pioneers of guests finding rentals on the internet. The internet was so new that most of his guests were also computer programmers.

As he worked in his office, his piece of paradise in Hawaii was calling to him. It was like a piece of his heart was connected to Hawaii via The Cottage. In 1996 Steve decided to move to Hawaii and take over his retiring property manager's rentals. Because he referred to his Cottage as his piece of paradise, he named his business A Piece of Paradise, got his Hawaii real estate license and exteneded the business into real estate sales in addition to vacation rentals.

A Piece of Paradise became the premier vacation rental management company in the area. Steve's niche market was helping his guests buy their own piece of paradise and to help the owners sell their vacation rental properties. Eventually he sold A Piece of Paradise and moved to Honolulu and started a new company, Hawaii Second Homes.
 
Hawaii Second Homes specializes in helping people to buy and sell second homes and vacation rental properties on both Oahu and Hawaii Island.