Owning a Vacation Home in Caribbean

Ok. This particular post is for the ladies...or those men looking for opportunities to man-splain something later and then get smacked for it! When we first visited the Dominican Republic and then purchased a house the year after, I was normal, hormonally speaking. Lush tropical palm forests and green hills reaching out into the deep Atlantic blue ocean... or Caribbean turquoise... nice! Dreams of never shoveling snow again. Walks down a golden sunset beach, wind blowing through my hair and flowing beach wrap...these were the images crowding out all rational thought. Skip ahead a couple years and realities of buying a fixer-upper in the Caribbean with only intermittent opportunities to just relax in our house have come home to roost! Knock Knock! Who could it be? Open the door and in strolls perimenopause! Hand in hand with Hot Flashes, Night Sweats and Mood Swings. The worst uninvited guests a middle-aged woman could ever imagine! UGH! Now the sun-drenched island heat