Roberta and her husband Gordon, high school sweethearts from Miami Beach, have been married for 46 years. They adopted Kauai into their lives in 1969, when they acquired land in a remote jungle valley on the far end of the island’s North Shore.
The pristine nature of the environment was irresistible, and by 1972 they were able to begin the construction of their dream home, after selling their successful career counseling business in San Francisco.
In 1977, Roberta became the second realtor on Kauai’s north shore pioneering a career for the next 33 years. The one room office in Hanalei’s modest downtown, later gave way to Hanalei North Shore Properties, which Roberta founded with her partner Mimsy, and over the next 3 decades grew to be a multi-million dollar business. In 2001, Roberta’s daughter, Courtney Haas Welborn, joined the family brokerage and in 2006, became the Broker in Charge. Roberta’s commitment to cultivating a unique business model in a budding industry was recognized by Pacific Business News, which has hailed her as one of Hawaii’s Top Female Business Owners.
In 2009, merging her company with Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, shows once again what an innovative thinker Roberta is. Always one step ahead, she is now blending tradition with technology, and together with her intimate knowledge of the North Shore, she continues to contribute her unique style of enhancing the lives of people from all over the world. Allow Roberta to open the door to your new vision.
The personification of the Aloha spirit, Roberta is a co-founder of the Kauai Aloha Endowment, and a Fellow of the National Tropical Botanical Garden which is charted by Congress to protect the pristine nature which is so treasured on Kauai.
Roberta continues to make her home in the heart of the jungle on Kauai’s exquisite North Shore.