Hi arman, We have lived in the USVI for just over a year. Some thoughts: 1) You don't need to live on an island if your main goal is a slo...
Wow. There went the only reason I would ever have to keep my Scotia accounts (Havensight closing). I have yet to hear anything bad about BP - anyone...
I have enough to put 50% down, every mortgage bank I called told me I had to wait 7 yrs!!! That's when the Bankruptcy falls off, FHA guidelines are 2-...
Banking in the USVI is much like life in Cuba or the old USSR. No one gives a shit, 80% of the people are dumber than rocks, and no one gives a shit ...
If you're on stt call prana spa at yacht haven grande. She's terrific. Multiple modalities. For rachel: pricing is similar as it is in the sta...
This is devolving into Coconut Tree territory, but I'm with A&A - it's quite sad that it's 2014 and this is some kind of 'debate'. At least humankind...
I guess everyone's experience is different - we see and hear groups of 2-4 jetskis right off our property once or twice a day and have never found the...
Sorry to be ignorant, but what exactly is a burn barrel? You put all your garbage in a oil drum and light it on fire?
The EDC would not apply to starting a masonry company on STX doing work on the island (may still be a good idea regardless of course). The EDC, with ...
chris, did you know these people who squated Yes. It was our house manager, housekeeper, and their family and friends, so they had codes and key...
4 bedroom house, zero AC. Pool pump. Average WAPA bill $1,200. When we were off island for an entire billing month it was still 650, which we c...
I'd rather those than the strip club one that keeps re-appearing at the entrance to my neighborhood and across the street from a school. I'm no prude...
My perspective: We are in the middle of selling our house on STX (hopefully closing soon!) and our agent is definitely earning her 3% listing fee...
Wouldn't it be nice if all laws had to have an expiration date - even if it was 30 years, to force them to be re-evaluated and consider if the law was...
Living on STX since 3/1. Totally disagree with your comments. Not witnessed any of the craziness on the roads you witnessed on a 1 week visit. ...
Just curious, because IMHO St. Thomas and St. Croix are quite different in many ways, which of the two felt most comfortable or amenable to you two? ...
This is great info, thanks A. If people don't share stories, good and bad, capitalism doesn't work. The good should thrive and the bad should go out...
One issue with looking for work from an EDC company is that 80% of EDC company employees must have been a resident of the USVI for a year or more, so ...
Order your own checks. After trying for months to get checks from either USVI bank I opened an account at I finally got them from First Bank, and on ...
No additional monthly cost - I think the tower cost us $150. The tower plugs in to your cable/DSL and your phone connects first to the tower for call...
I met Stacey Plaskett at an event tonight. I was extremely impressed. I had checked out her website a few days ago (PlaskettforCongress.com) and rea...
turns out when you drop your phone on tile it sometimes doesn't work anymore..... I post this not to bump it up, but so that for the next xxx mon...
The IRS wont be sending anything to the VI. Until you are a bona fide resident here in the VI, your income earned in the US and your home state is pa...
