jaldeborgh
@jaldeborgh
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Joined: September 29, 2018 7:36 am
Last seen: December 7, 2023 4:10 pm
Topics: 8 / Replies: 513
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RE: how to become a citizen there

As the USVI is a US Territory and it’s population are US citizens, I suspect the process for gaining citizenship is no different than if you were in o...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Where have all the posters gone?

Good question, this site was helpful when we were looking to buy a home just about 5 years ago. I’ve also enjoyed the knowledgeable and civil discuss...

1 month ago
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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 months 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 months 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 months 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.

3 months 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...

4 months 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...

4 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...

4 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 ...

4 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...

4 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...

6 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 ...

7 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...

8 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...

8 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 ...

8 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...

8 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...

8 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...

9 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...

9 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 ...

9 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...

9 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...

9 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,...

9 months ago
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