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Meg’s goal is to help clients understand the real estate landscape so well that they feel confident in making their decisions, whether buying or selling.
She loves working with buyers, because she loves to listen and shop to find great deals! Meg is equally comfortable working with sellers as she brings a maturity to the relationship and can enable clients to trust and respect her advice, opinions and work ethic.
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Contact Me:
Meg Saunders
Prudential Orchid Isle Properties
Hilo, HI 96720
Direct: 808-895-3147
Email Me Here
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Meg finds the independence and self motivation requirements of real estate deeply satisfying. Every time she can put people together with the right property, the matchmaking process, and work through the details to a successful closing, she finds renewed energy.
For fun, her passion is playing tennis. She started playing when her daughter went to pre-school, close to 20 years ago. Today Meg plays recreationally at least 3 times a week (weather permitting) and on several USTA leagues. She served as captain of the Hilo Yacht Club Women’s 4.0 and Senior Women’s 4.0 teams for several years and sits on the HYC Athletics Committee as the tennis chair.
Meg also loves to twitter around in the garden and spend far too many hours on video games. Her son has an even greater addiction to games and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree at SMU in Interactive Technology – video game design. Her daughter is a student at HCC in the Culinary Arts program and lives at home. Her husband, Bob works for CSV Hospitality, based in San Francisco which builds, owns and manages hotel properties throughout the US.
With her background, experience and graceful approach to life, you will find that Meg certainly does live up to Prudential Real Estates criteria of “professionals you can count on”.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Pasadena California, home of the Tournament of Roses and the Rose Bowl, Meg graduated from Pasadena High School, where high school football games and High School graduations took place in the Rose Bowl.
Meg graduated from UC San Diego in La Jolla California with a B.A.degree in Philosophy and an emphasis in Mathematics. Then she decided to find some marketable skills and attended and graduated from the Institute for Paralegal Training in Philadelphia PA less than a year later.
Meg spent the next three years living in Vermont working as a paralegal with several outstanding attorneys, including the subsequent Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Many days were spent at dozens of county seats researching title records. Unlike Hawaii with one recording office in the entire state, Vermont land transactions were recorded in each County and attorneys handled all closings, with paralegals or rookie attorneys providing the legal descriptions.
After three years in Vermont, she got really COLD and extended her Christmas trip to California by going to Hawaii to visit an old friend, Bob, who was living and working in Honolulu. Bob and Meg had known each other all their lives, their families were close friends. She then moved to Honolulu 4 months later in April 1977, and they married in 1978.
Working again as a paralegal in Honolulu, Meg specialized in real estate and litigation. As so much of the work had the emphasis in real estate, she went ahead and got a real estate license, and continued working as a paralegal with an inactive license.
In 1983 she and her husband moved to Southern California because of a work promotion, and stayed there for the next 10 years. Working with two very successful mortgage bankers in Orange County, Meg was the Closing and Loan Servicing coordinator for one and worked in Underwriting Quality Control for the second much larger firm.
In 1994 Meg moved to Hilo with her husband, and in 1999 took a part time role with C. Brewer to work with their real estate division. Her primary function was to update and organize title information for all the land owned by CBL and it’s subsidiaries. Working with a Honolulu attorney and Title Guarantee’s long search division to clear titles. She developed an inventory of insurable lands for the company to sell.
In 2003 Meg reactivated her real estate license. Three years later in 2006, she sat for her broker’s license and was the Broker-In-Charge and Principal Broker for a Hilo real estate company until joining Prudential Orchid Isle Properties in January 2009.
