• Moving From Iowa to Northeast Florida: What Actually Changes,Joey Larsen

    Moving From Iowa to Northeast Florida: What Actually Changes

    What Does It Feel Like to Trade Corn for Coastline? The thing Iowans tell me they miss is the sky. Not the weather. The sky. That enormous flat lid of it over a section road in August, the way you can watch a storm build for forty minutes before it arrives. Northeast Florida does not give you that.

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  • Builder Upgrades and Resale: Which Options Come Back at Closing,Joey Larsen

    Builder Upgrades and Resale: Which Options Come Back at Closing

    How Much of That Design Center Bill Do You Actually Get Back? There is a moment in every new construction purchase that happens in a bright room with samples on the wall. You have already picked the lot and the floor plan. Now somebody slides a sheet across the table and everything on it sounds reas

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  • Big Talbot and Little Talbot Island: The Wild Side of the First Coast,Joey Larsen

    Big Talbot and Little Talbot Island: The Wild Side of the First Coast

    Where Do You Go When You Want the Beach With Nobody On It? Drive north on A1A past the last of the Jacksonville beach towns and something happens to the road. The commercial strip thins out. The palms give way to scrub oak and pine and long stretches of marsh going gold in the afternoon. You cross a

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