• Community pool from above in Jacksonville, FL

    Lagoon Living: Inside the Amenity-First Communities of St. Johns County

    What Happens When the Neighborhood Is the Main Attraction? On a Saturday in Beachwalk you can stand on sand, look out at turquoise water wide enough for paddleboards, and be nine miles from the actual Atlantic Ocean. Kids are jumping off something. Somebody has a cabana. There is a bar. And every si

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  • Skyline at sunset in Jacksonville, FL

    Selling a Tenant-Occupied Home Before You Move to Florida

    What If the House You Need to Sell Has Someone Living in It? This one comes up more than people expect. You bought a rental fifteen years ago, or you moved and kept the old house instead of selling into a soft market, or you inherited something and put a tenant in it. Now it is the piece of your bal

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  • Pink stucco home with a flag in Fullerwood Park, St. Augustine, FL

    Easements, Surveys and Plat Lines: The Quiet Details That Change a Deal

    Do You Actually Know Where Your Property Line Is? A man in Silverleaf called me once about a fence. He had lived there four years, he wanted to put up six feet of vinyl along the back, and the neighbor said absolutely not because part of it would sit on a drainage easement. He was sure the neighbor

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