• Skyline along the river in Jacksonville, FL

    Wire Fraud at Closing: How to Protect Your Money in a Florida Purchase

    What if the email with your wiring instructions is not real? It is the Tuesday before closing, and an email arrives that looks exactly right. The logo is familiar, the signature matches, and it says there has been a small update to the wiring instructions. Please send funds to the new account today.

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  • Bridge over the river in black and white in Jacksonville, FL

    After the Inspection: What to Ask the Seller to Fix and What to Let Go

    The inspection report is back. Now what do you ask for? The report lands in your inbox on a Thursday evening, forty pages and a hundred photographs. You are sitting on the couch in Charlotte, scrolling past red flags and yellow flags and a few things you cannot even pronounce. The house is a lovely

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  • River bridge and skyline in Jacksonville, FL

    Your Final Walk-Through: What to Check Before You Close on a Florida Home

    What should you look for in that last hour before closing? The house is empty now, and your footsteps echo a little in the hall. You stand in the kitchen of a home in RiverTown you first saw on a screen months ago, keys not yet in your hand, and the sellers' furniture is gone. It is the last easy mo

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