Sounds like a great plan! I hope the markets rebound here soon too...but I'm afraid the market is going to continue to squeeze out foreclosures. I'm not even sure we've reached bottom.
I LOVE St. Croix....I just didn't like the fact that I had to wear watershoes when I went to the beaches. The water is pristine though that's for sure.
Are you going to sell Real Estate in St. Croix too? Dammit...I was hoping you'd move to Florida and open up a brokerage firm with me...
We've thought of several things.
buying a bar....M and my son want to do this.
selling real estate.
concierge for vacation properties...I like this idea. among other things it's stocking up with supplies for people
coming in for vacation. (it's called provisioning
pool maintenance.....this is Runnin' Buddy's idea.
open a repeat shop for household stuff....furniture, decorating stuff, etc.
breakfast/lunch place
cater the food/drink for party/dive/fishing boats...they don't do this there! we chartered two catarmaran's to go
to Buck Island and it was a good thing we had some leftovers
from the wedding, or we wouldn't have had anything, as it was
I think we only had enough each one to have a little roll with
some meat in it, and a bite or two of cake. we didn't know that
no one would stop and get anything for themselves. snorkeling
and swimming makes one hungry and I guess they didn't think
they would be.
going to someone's villa and cooking dinner
wedding planning
I'm leaning towards building a business doing the concierge thing. We'd not only do the provisioning, but also provide gift bags if wanted, and assist with activity suggestions and booking. All that takes time, and a lot of people don't want to spend their vacation time, trying to obtain food, liquor and finding out what to do, if they aren't staying at a hotel. The one who had the villa where RB stayed and held her daughter's wedding, was a big help on where to obtain the stuff we needed for the wedding that we didn't ship in. Even to telling us where to get whole beef tenderloin and getting it at a lower than retail price because of how much we got. RB did this spiral bound booklet on St Croix that we put in each gift bag for each couple...it was really nice with maps, places to go, things to do, history of the island, etc....it was about 25 pages.