By Jeremy Neel, It’s a well-known fact that mold destroys homes and ruins people’s health. Yet, some people aren’t aware of how to find out if there is mold in their homes. While mold is a problem anywhere, Florida’s weather creates more risks for mold. Florida’s high heat and severe storms increase the risk of mold in homes and […]

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By: Maurice Stouse Branch Manager and Financial Advisor Investors have watched the market move its way down for most of this year. Whether invested in stocks, bonds, crypto or otherwise, it seemed that values just continued to slip. Why has this been so? We look at several inputs to help understand the outputs and talk […]

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By Joe Capers, Insurance Zone For the past year or so, Florida property owners have learned about the many factors that caused our insurance premiums to increase at unprecedented levels. This is true in all lines of insurance, but primarily with insurance for residential and commercial property. There are multiple reasons for the state of […]

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By Ken Larsen, CR Your home or commercial building has water damage. Do you know how to select a company with water damage and structural drying services? More importantly, will you be able to tell if they did the job right? Are you sure you’re asking the right questions? Improper structural drying causes problems like […]

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By Chris Balzer, Mom’s Earth Day? Sounds made up, right?  Earth Day was April 22nd and Mother’s Day is May 8th, only 16 days apart so I thought I would combine the two and make Mom’s Earth Day.  At ECES, we treat everyday like Earth Day, we increase comfort and lower CO2 emissions saving the […]

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The Northwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association is excited to announce the winners of the 2022 FPRA Image Awards and Joe Curley Rising Leader Award. The Florida Public Relations Association’s (FPRA) Image Awards are the precursor to FPRA’s Golden Image Awards. Conducted annually, the Image Awards competition provides PR practitioners a platform […]

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By Maurice Stouse It has been quite a different year for investors. Investments can be classified in a few main categories:  1) Financial: stocks, bonds or cash; 2) Real: real estate, 3) Alternative: gold, bitcoin, commodities as examples 4) Personal: jewelry or perhaps collectibles. War, rising interest rates and bond yields and inflation have had […]

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By Joe Capers, Insurance Zone On June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, suffered a collapse of the east wing, killing 98 people. This building was constructed in 1981 with 136 units. Although building failures of this nature in the U.S. are seldom seen, it is important to examine what happened to prevent […]

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