New Jax Witty

I got into an interesting conversation with a gentleman about why Jacksonville has not yet attained the stature that it should have as a m...

Just under three months. We've all used Google Maps, and most of us have used the little yellow guy to access Google Streetview. In ...

Boo from church told me mistletoe might be pretty at Christmas, but it'll ruin your trees. He also said that I'd have to trim bac...

I typed the above search phrase into Google and didn't come up with much. I did this for two reasons: our house has a couple of replac...

I've talked about the fact that the previous owners of my house never had their dishwasher hooked up to drain, meaning it never wor...

Maybe this is a local Jax or FL thing. Two examples in less than a year make it more than a coincidence, I think.

This is a specific problem you might run into if you purchased a home with an alarm system and hard-wired smoke alarms, and if you went and ...

I've seen a lot of people who tell news reporters to leave them alone, and many others who won't show their faces in interviews. Som...

When I as looking for houses in Jacksonville, I mentioned to my realtor that people here didn't seem to understand the simple formu...

When you move to a brand new community, you will have unexpected expenses that are generally hidden from your accounting. While the...

Moving to Florida has provided me with new information all the time. One thing I could not understand is why my neighbor has been running...

So we own a house. We filled out the form to ask for the Homestead Exemptions, which basically seem to reduce the taxable amount of the hous...

I was stuck with a weekend lineup that did not interest me, so I tuned into Local Haunts, mostly because of the cheesiest intro ever. It...

If you have a previous owner, then you have problems. Here's one of ours: the dishwasher disconnect. Our inspector ran the dishwasher....