• Roofer at work on a home in St. Augustine, FL

    The Four-Point Inspection: Why It Decides Whether a Florida Deal Closes

    Why Did the Insurance Company Ask for Another Inspection? A buyer from Pennsylvania got through the home inspection on a 1988 house in Atlantic Beach with a short repair list and a good feeling. Then her insurance agent asked for a four-point. She had never heard the term. She assumed it was paperwo

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  • Historic white building on a city street in Jacksonville, FL

    San Marco Square: An Afternoon in the Most Walkable Pocket of Jacksonville

    Where Do You Go in Jacksonville When You Want to Park Once and Walk? Three bronze lions sit in a small park where three streets come together, and around them is a block of low stucco buildings with arched windows and tile roofs that somebody in the 1920s built to look like Venice. There is a theate

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  • Two-story home with palms in Panama Park, Jacksonville, FL

    Living in Mandarin: Old Jacksonville Under the Oaks

    Is There Anywhere in Jacksonville That Still Feels Like a Village? Drive Mandarin Road on a weekday morning and the pavement narrows to something barely two lanes wide with oaks meeting overhead and glimpses of the St. Johns River flashing between old houses on the water side. There is a park with a

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