I met my husband in Hawaii when he was stationed at Schofield. We moved into the Kunia Apartments directly across the street from Walmart (you can never go wrong living by a walmart open 24/7). In 2003 it cost $1575.00 for a 3 bedroom up on a hill with a far away ocean view looking over pearl harbor all the way to diamond head. 30 min. drive to downtown Waipahu in traffic. I loved it there. Pool, volleyball court, gym, and a place to bbq. All centered in the middle of the apartments. I could only imagine what the price is now but out of all the places in Waipahu, the Kunia Apartments was the nicest place and only 30-40 min. to north shore if you wanted to spend the night on the beach with a bond fire. I liked the location better than some ghetto locations. Kunia is just a smaller area of Waipahu and is 10 minutes from a shopping area. I believe it was growing when we left and there were nice single-family homes just being built around there starting at $350k. So Waipahu was not considered the nicest of cities but when we left 7 years ago it started looking a lot nicer and a lot of the "bad" people were being pushed out since it was getting nicer, in turn getting too expensive for them to live there. Just a little side note: My husband actually proposed to me next to our Kunia apartment on an open field overlooking the island. In our 9 years of marriage living there was one of the best memories we have. All of our neighbors were military also from all branches so that was nice to have also. I hope you consider it because it's actually a really decent place and I'm one of those picky wives ;). p.s. we also had two small dogs when we lived there. Other people also had big dogs and some had cats so I know they allow animals. Hope that helps.
