Owning a Vacation Home in Caribbean

future ocean view... I finally get to blog about building. Originally, this whole page was about owning a vacation home and building in the Caribbean. For the last three and a half years, we have been "owning" and "repairing" in the Caribbean.  We have five lots now. One with a house and four that are so small that we are treating them as technically two.  One has a 'peek'-at-the-ocean view similar to our existing home and the other affords us a much more impressive wide open ocean view, provided we build our home on top of an eight to ten foot tall foundation/basement to overcome the neighbor's wall and other neighbor's guest house placement.... sigh ... little peek of ocean When we bought the house, we were the only structure on top of our little development. We knew that the two properties that penned-in our property and thus view had been sold and would have buildings there soon. I've blogged about that headache at length as