08-29-2017, 12:46 PM
It's 4 months for the dogs. Dogs are actually easy to bring in, just a bunch of time and red tape. If you want headaches, bring parrots. If you don't have heartworm in your area, don't worry about a heartworm regimen until you get here. You will want your dogs vaccinated for lepto before you get here, it's not normally part of a mainland vaccination schedule but it's usually in the 9-way and 10-way shots. There are also lepto-only vaccines. Having a farm we vaccinate our pets and livestock ourselves, I am not sure what the vets sell on the madland.
You mentioned bringing a shipping container to keep here. The barge companies can only transport shipping containers with a valid engineer's certificate, and most of the shipping containers for sale cheap are because they don't have/probably can't get one. The most likely source of buying a shipping container that can be shipped here is the barge company looking to unload a shipping container near the end of it's life, and those aren't as cheap as the ones you see on Craigslist etc. It might be cheaper to purchase a shipping container here. We were lucky that when we wanted to do the same thing you asked about, we called the barge company and asked if any of their containers were for sale. In their entire fleet they only had TWO, and one of them was magically at our port. We asked for that container specifically and we had the OPTION to buy it AFTER we got here. Also, make sure you get a "High Cube" container. They are the only ones that can survive a permitting process- even if you have no interest in that it increases the local resale value if you change your mind about staying here. Lastly, when I was container shopping a few years ago there was essentially no price difference on island for a 20' or 40' high cube because nobody ships 20' containers here anymore and many for sale were 40' containers cut in half and after adding doors etc the prices washed out.
You mentioned bringing a shipping container to keep here. The barge companies can only transport shipping containers with a valid engineer's certificate, and most of the shipping containers for sale cheap are because they don't have/probably can't get one. The most likely source of buying a shipping container that can be shipped here is the barge company looking to unload a shipping container near the end of it's life, and those aren't as cheap as the ones you see on Craigslist etc. It might be cheaper to purchase a shipping container here. We were lucky that when we wanted to do the same thing you asked about, we called the barge company and asked if any of their containers were for sale. In their entire fleet they only had TWO, and one of them was magically at our port. We asked for that container specifically and we had the OPTION to buy it AFTER we got here. Also, make sure you get a "High Cube" container. They are the only ones that can survive a permitting process- even if you have no interest in that it increases the local resale value if you change your mind about staying here. Lastly, when I was container shopping a few years ago there was essentially no price difference on island for a 20' or 40' high cube because nobody ships 20' containers here anymore and many for sale were 40' containers cut in half and after adding doors etc the prices washed out.