jaldeborgh
@jaldeborgh
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Joined: September 29, 2018 7:36 am
Last seen: September 27, 2023 12:39 am
Topics: 8 / Replies: 511
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RE: Please help

Not sure what your looking for or whether you require employment. That said the three islands are very different. St. John is the most picturesque b...

3 days ago
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RE: Insurance on Wood Frame Homes in the VI

there are different types of homeowners insurance. For example we still have coverage for everything except windstorm coverage. So we have liability...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Electrician on STX

I’ve used both Adam’s Electric and Braverly Joseph (BJ Electric) on fairly major jobs. I would recommend both. They’re both busy so scheduling is th...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Another mystery death in the VI

Very sad no matter the cause, I doubt much will come of the families protests, unfortunately.

4 weeks ago
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RE: A Tesla on St. Croix?

Your memory is better than mine “The vehicles will be positioned across multiple agencies, with 15 vehicles assigned to the central government and 8 j...

1 month ago
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RE: Insurance on Wood Frame Homes in the VI

Essentially, yes. I’m retired and we have a “nest egg” that is professionally managed. Since buying our place we’ve not taken roughly $100K from tha...

2 months ago
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RE: Insurance on Wood Frame Homes in the VI

When we closed on our home in January 2019 the insurance quote was $26K with windstorm coverage and $6K without windstorm on the policy. We’ve chosen...

2 months ago
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RE: 50 pound dog

My daughter, that lives in Bozeman, MT has a Golden Retriever that’s over 50 pounds, she got the dog certified/registered as a service dog and had no ...

2 months ago
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RE: Insurance on Wood Frame Homes in the VI

I’ve been hearing similar things for the past few months. I don’t think this is confined to the USVI, I’ve heard Florida has seen homeowner rates sky...

2 months ago
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RE: Container / Moving Help

@miamistylez We had a phased move to the island and we’re retired seasonal residents. What that means is when we sold our primary home north of Bo...

4 months ago
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RE: Housing Replacement cost per sq ft

This isn’t exactly on point but I recently finished 3 car garage on the east end of St. Croix. So nothing but a box, minimal electric from the house ...

4 months ago
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RE: Mail and shipping

We live on St. Croix and don’t have what I would call a normal address so the P.O. Box was a necessity. We linked it to a credit card for automatic p...

5 months ago
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RE: Looking for best Internet service

I’ll second both StarLink and T-Mobile. Been using StarLink since last October and I’m seeing 200 to 250mbps download speeds and 15mbps upload speeds...

5 months ago
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RE: Moving to St. Croix

A little more data would help. In particular why St. Croix. it’s a Caribbean island with roughly 50K residents, a Territorial Government, but it’s ...

5 months ago
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RE: House Design - Land Clearing - Site Work - Excavation - Concrete - Septic - Electrics -Plumbing Contractor(s)

This is great advice and insight. Unfortunately trying to do things on a very tight budget is problematic, the best way to save money as well as mana...

6 months ago
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RE: House Design - Land Clearing - Site Work - Excavation - Concrete - Septic - Electrics -Plumbing Contractor(s)

I would agree Mike Robbins is an excellent option, he’s currently doing a major renovation for a good friend of mine who won’t be on island for most o...

6 months ago
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RE: The Latest from Liberty - Forced Equipment Change!

Same here, T-Mobile has been great. I actually have one of their femtocell’s installed in my house (hooked up to our home network and StarLink) so we...

6 months ago
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RE: Wills and Trusts

I’m happy to but he’s Massachusetts based, we’ve been seasonal residents but now that I’m retired I’m looking into making the STX our permanent reside...

6 months ago
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RE: House Design - Land Clearing - Site Work - Excavation - Concrete - Septic - Electrics -Plumbing Contractor(s)

Without wanting to stir up controversy or debate, I’m on the east end of STX not far from Cheeseburgers, and used Dave Follman to both build a garage ...

6 months ago
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RE: Solar panel question about voltage, 3 bdrm house 1800 SF on St John

Energy Wise Solutions (Mike Bruno) has done work on STJ as well, great guy in my experience. I agree, fine someone local, you may think solar is main...

6 months ago
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RE: Building a house, which A/C do you prefer for the mini splits and best way to do it

I will second the recommendation on using Mitsubishi. I’ve been replacing my older Daikin units with Mitsubishi as they fail. The performance differ...

6 months ago
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RE: Wills and Trusts

As I recall the attorney we used, recommended by our financial advisor, charges a $4K flat fee for all our various documents including, wills, trusts,...

6 months ago
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RE: The Latest from Liberty - Forced Equipment Change!

StarLink has been great for me as well, that said it appears the fiber optic cables are being buried on the east end of STX. Not sure who is doing th...

6 months ago
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RE: Mahogany Run Golf Course STT

One of the nice benefits of living on St. Croix are the 3 golf courses (one of which is a 9 hole). Golf has become a meaningful part of my retirement...

6 months ago
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