Thank you Destin community, businesses and loyal readers! You’ve continued to embrace your Destin Life each month, providing us the opportunity to represent the Destin community as a platform for your community voice. Each month is a celebration of success – telling your stories about people, businesses and organizations...
By Maurice Stouse, Financial Advisor and Branch Manager
The financial media are replete with reports that the markets in 2022 are off to one of their worst halves in recorded history. The stock market – the worst since 1970. The bond market, the worst ever. That begs the question, is...
By Joe Capers, Insurance Zone
The unpopular, but familiar topics and headlines continue. Florida now has the highest premiums in the nation. It has been two and a half years since we started to feel the impact of the changing (hardening) insurance marketplace in our state. Because we are nearly...
By Melissa Fertitta
Beachworx, Destin’s premiere coworking space, announced last week it is expanding in its current location. The coworking space fills the entire third floor of the Destin Commerce Center, located at the southwest corner of Hwy 98 and Crystal Beach Dr. Its current layout includes a conference room,...
By Mark Wichern
Publisher’s Note: Mark Wichern, the owner of Veritas Restoration, is also the owner of Restoration Coach, the Parent company of Veritas Restoration. He’s an expert in mold.
His background is vast. He’s been an Instructor for the IICRC since 2004 and has taught thousands of students throughout the...
By Jim Jaquess
Governor DeSantis recently signed into law more than $1.2 billion of tax relief for Floridians. The new law creates 10 sales tax holidays for a variety of items commonly purchased by Florida families, including fuel, diapers, disaster supplies and tools.
“Florida’s economy has consistently outpaced the nation, but...
By Melissa Fertitta
Leasing commercial office space has traditionally been a long-term commitment without much flexibility. For start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, that commitment may be more than they can handle in periods when cash flow is likely to fluctuate and staff size is small.
Though leases are unique to each building...
By Maurice Stouse, Financial Advisor and Branch Manager
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...
By Donna Montalvo, A2Z
Each month, A2Z Specialty Advertising Inc. includes a story from someone who has worked alongside Gabby Bruce, so you can see the kind of impact he had and continues to have in our community!
“From the business perspective, you could count on Gabby to deliver his products...
By Lori Smith
Veritas Restoration & Mold Remediation recently opened its doors to provide cost-effective, time-saving, innovative technology in the water damage restoration industry. No strangers to the industry, Mark and Laura have built and sold two other successful restoration companies and have more than 25 years of industry experience....
