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Joined: August 5, 2014 3:00 am
Last seen: January 16, 2025 10:38 pm
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Re: Relocating in April-May

You don't want to get into a lease without a physical inspection first and it sounds like you're not sure where you want to be yet anyway. Either do ...

8 years ago
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Re: Moving to St. Thomas, not for the fainthearted.

So, no, the desert dust is not self inflicted Certainly not all of it. During the season you can see it from the plane floating in the sea s...

8 years ago
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Re: Potential Move to St. Thomas

Is anything cheaper here to offset the inflated costs of other living expenses, especially housing? What is the Zika status? Rum is cheaper...

8 years ago
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Re: Moving to St. Thomas, not for the fainthearted.

A lot of island problems are self-inflicted! In my neighborhood the Sahara dust problem that everyone warned me about was actually the overzealous la...

8 years ago
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Re: Moving to St. Thomas, not for the fainthearted.

My point, is that you've got to be a somewhat self sufficient jack-of-all-trades, or have huge amounts of disposable income to pay someone for constan...

8 years ago
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Re: It's not a holiday without a power outage!!!

You pay a monthly surcharge and your appliances and electronics are covered for damages. So the surge arrester installation is a one time cost an...

8 years ago
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Re: It's not a holiday without a power outage!!!

The meters are designed to measure power (kW). If you are able to consume power during a brown-out (low voltage) they will still record how much actu...

8 years ago
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Re: It's not a holiday without a power outage!!!

They shouldn't affect the meters any more than turning on/off your appliances. Meters don't care about power fluctuations.

8 years ago
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Re: Sales tax on items purchased in mainland or Puerto Rico for shipping to USVI.

Doubt you can get out of paying local sales tax unless the seller ships directly to VI.

8 years ago
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Re: Wanted: Moving to STX Need Everything

And you won't have to deal with the out-gassing from the adhesives and foams that are used to make the furniture that is sold here! The good furn...

8 years ago
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Re: Wanted: Moving to STX Need Everything

Royal is good to work with as well for new stuff. We've bought from both.

8 years ago
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Re: Wanted: Moving to STX Need Everything

there is a place up in peters rest i think near the used furniture store Beach House Consignments there is a place at the corner of the by...

8 years ago
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Re: What is happening to the food trucks on St. Croix?

They should be running on generator and propane.

8 years ago
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Re: Wanted: Moving to STX Need Everything

They've got a little furniture at the animal shelter thrift shop (downstairs).

8 years ago
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Re: Drywall STX

Yeah, use the mold-resistant kind with no paper backing.

8 years ago
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Re: Moving to St. Thomas, not for the fainthearted.

I tell people that I would love to have just one week go by where I don't have to fix something, replace something or deal with any of those little "p...

8 years ago
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Re: Is Coconuts, the bar in Fredricksted, still open?

We went once, last year I think, service was non-existent, never returned.

8 years ago
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Re: What is happening to the food trucks on St. Croix?

There was a recent thread on the new food truck at Cane Bay for breakfast.

8 years ago
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Re: Moving to St. Thomas, not for the fainthearted.

Pasta, rice, crackers. All go in a zip lock in a sealed tight plastic container, with a few bay leaves to keep the weavils away. and every...

8 years ago
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Re: I think WAPA is screwing us over.

I used a stop watch, a 230volt 10,000watt calrod certified heating element (stove burner). every meter has a power factor written on the data sectio...

8 years ago
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Re: I think WAPA is screwing us over.

I had a guy that kinda came with the house for general maintenance but he was full of S and once charged me to fill my generator with gas. I hop...

8 years ago
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Re: I think WAPA is screwing us over.

awhile back I did a full test of my meter, found the instructions in a GE Meter manual for my style meter...did the test three independent times, ever...

8 years ago
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Re: I think WAPA is screwing us over.

maybe they were estimating it at the 120 rate and they finally read the meter?? that happened to a co worker, they estimated for over a year and then ...

8 years ago
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