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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

We had a 10kW system with 37.5kWh of battery backup and a 12K inverter installed a couple of years ago on St. Croix. Total cost was roughly $50K befo...

I believe it had been for sale for a while. Hopefully someone will pick it up as it something of a landmark.

Not sure what you mean by off the grid. STJ is a very upscale island with a small population and lots of tourists. That said, you can live off the g...

If you have significant assets (not simply cash and financial instruments) get an attorney. This is not something you want to ignore if you care abou...

We bought in January of 2019, as I approached retirement, rented back to the prior owners until that November and began moving our belongings in Decem...

What was the Territory expecting, a $105M windfall isn’t bad given the total 2023 operating budget for the Territory is only about $1.35B. To me any ...

FYI, Verizon is about to shut down their 3G network, I read it will impact between 5 and 10 million customers. All the other cell carriers have alread...

I’ve been using it for a couple of months, switched from Broadband VI, no regrets. Performance seems to be at least as good, doesn’t appear that even ...

I don’t think that’s unique to the USVI. While living on the mainland does massively increase shopping options, most (or at least many) find it easie...

As a data point, I just finished building a fairly simple 800 sqft 3 car cement garage on STX, electric but no cistern or water and the square foot co...

In the old America, citizens were free to do anything they chose unless there was a specific law prohibiting that activity. So unless there is a spec...

As horrid as this sounds, if you don’t already own the land and have an approved set of plans, I have to agree with the 3 year timeline. After buyin...

I have a friend who purchased a home on STX about 18 months ago that had a Generac propane generator. After the closing they discovered it wasn’t wor...

The airlines are busy again and Silver (same parent company) is adding new aircraft to their fleet and expanding their routes. I’m wondering if the s...