Court Records
Timeline · 2013 → 2026

Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC — a Delaware LLC with principal office at 1801 Century Park East, Suite 2400, Los Angeles, California — registers with Hawaii BREG as a Foreign Limited Liability Company on November 19, 2013 (file #111454 C6, status: Active, registered agent: CT Corporation System). This is the earliest Hawaii public-record evidence of the entity's presence in the state. The actual Delaware formation date may predate this. Note: The Nov 19, 2013 registration date is exactly 12 years to the day before the November 19, 2025 verbatim "MBR LLC dba Sunset Terrace" court caption (case 2DRC-25-0002662) — coincidence, but a tidy one.

Earliest verifiable Hawaii eCourt Kokua / Ho'ohiki case in this dossier: 2CC171000253, an individual tenant Circuit Court Civil action filed June 13, 2017 naming Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC. Circuit Court Civil filings are reserved for higher-stakes claims than small-claims matters and indicate the tenant alleged damages above small-claims jurisdictional limits.

Hawaii BREG records show EMPIRE PROPERTIES, LLC listed as the Member (MEM) of Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC effective October 1, 2017. This means MBR LLC — the Delaware-organized LA-controlled entity that owns the Sunset Terrace property — is itself owned (at least in part) by another LLC. The corporate stack at this property is therefore at least three layers deep: Empire Properties, LLC → Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC (dba Sunset Terrace) → AMC LLC (property manager). This filing predates the heaviest litigation period in this dossier by only weeks.

Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC files multiple Maui District Court Regular Claims actions against tenants in September and October 2017 (case dates verifiable on Hawaii eCourt Kokua: 2017-09-20, 2017-09-21, 2017-10-09, 2017-10-10, 2017-10-30). The "landlord-as-plaintiff" pattern that defines this dossier begins here.

Case 2CC171000510, a second individual tenant Circuit Court Civil action against Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC, filed December 8, 2017. Two Circuit Court tenant actions in the same calendar year is statistically unusual for a single property and indicates concerns above small-claims thresholds.

Three Maui District Court Regular Claims actions filed by Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC on the same day — February 20, 2018. Same-day batch filings are a recurring pattern in this dossier (see also Jan 13, 2023 · 4 cases, Aug 20–21, 2024 · 3 cases, and Apr 25, 2025 · 2 near-consecutive cases — entries below). Batch filings are consistent with bulk property-management collection workflows rather than case-by-case dispute resolution.

Case 2DRC-19-0000079 (October 2019) records the Plaintiff's party name verbatim as "MAUI BEACHFRONT RESIDENTIAL, LLC dba Sunset Terrace" — the earliest of at least three verified instances in this dossier of the marketed-name / legal-name pairing appearing in a single court caption (the others: case 2DRC-23-0000529 in April 2023, and case 2DRC-25-0002662 in November 2025 — see entries below). The dba relationship has been formally on the Hawaii court record from at least this date forward.

Hawaii Judiciary suspends most non-emergency civil proceedings under Governor Ige's COVID-19 emergency proclamations (HRS §127A authority). Maui District Court Regular Claims dramatically slows. Only 2 MBR cases recorded in 2020 vs. the multi-year pre-pandemic average. State eviction moratoria also active during this window.

In 2022 the dossier records an instance in which Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC obtained a Temporary Restraining Order against a tenant, then filed a separate Maui District Court Regular Claims action against the same tenant approximately seven days later. The combined record of 11 filings that year (including this TRO + lawsuit pair and one unrelated insurance matter involving GEICO) marks the first multi-vector litigation pattern in the dossier. Full case-by-case detail on the AMC LLC dossier.

Four Maui District Court Regular Claims actions filed by Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC on January 13, 2023: 2DRC-23-0000073, 2DRC-23-0000074, 2DRC-23-0000075, and 2DRC-23-0000077. Largest single-day batch in the dossier. Sequential case numbers within the same morning are consistent with a single courthouse trip filing pre-prepared complaints.

The August 8, 2023 Lahaina wildfires trigger continuous state, county, and federal emergency proclamations. Hawaii's anti-price-gouging statute (HRS §127A-30) prohibits rent increases beyond permissible levels for the duration of any active proclamation. These proclamations have been renewed continuously through 2024, 2025, and into 2026 — meaning §127A-30 has been active for the entire period since the fires.

Three Maui District Court Regular Claims actions filed by Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC across August 20–21, 2024: 2DRC-24-0001325, 2DRC-24-0001328, and 2DRC-24-0001329. The pattern of mass-filing continues into the post-wildfire emergency period.

2025 records the highest annual case volume in the dossier: 15 verifiable filings involving Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC. This is during the active Lahaina emergency proclamation period and against a backdrop of West Maui's housing-supply contraction. The year also includes another same-day batch (Apr 25 — cases 2DRC-25-0001048 and 2DRC-25-0001050) and the multi-plaintiff Circuit Court Civil case 2CCV-25-0003760 (Minard et al. v. Sunset Terrace Apts, filed Dec 3, 2025) — a tenant-initiated action surfacing only via the LLC name search, not the marketed name.

Case 2DRC-25-0002662 (filed November 19, 2025) again records the Plaintiff's party name verbatim as "MAUI BEACHFRONT RESIDENTIAL, LLC dba Sunset Terrace" — the third documented instance of this caption format in the dossier (after 2DRC-19-0000079 in 2019 and 2DRC-23-0000529 in 2023). Three data points across 6+ years means the dba pairing is not a one-off clerical artifact; it is the property's standard court-filing identity. A prospective renter Googling only "Sunset Terrace" still does not surface any of these filings.

Maui District Court Regular Claims filings by Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC continue into 2026: case 2DRC-26-0000090 and case 2DRC-26-0000542 are already on the docket. The 9-year landlord-as-plaintiff pattern documented in this timeline is not a historical artifact — it is ongoing.

Mayor Bissen issues the 21st Emergency Proclamation Relating to Wildfires (March 9, 2026). State of Hawaii at the 29th proclamation. HRS §127A-30 anti-price-gouging protections remain in continuous effect for the duration. Cumulative continuous emergency-declaration period has now exceeded 2.5 years since the August 2023 fires.

The dossier as published: 83 verified court records involving Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC across nearly 9 years (2017 → present), of which approximately 70 list MBR as Plaintiff and 13 list the property as Defendant (3 of which are Circuit Court Civil tenant actions). Full case-by-case detail with case numbers, filing dates, and party-name redactions for tenant privacy on the Maui Beachfront Residential, LLC dossier.