By Joe Capers, Insurance Zone
It has been two years since we wrote about the changing insurance market place in Florida. Because we are nearly surrounded by water with the possibility of storms and other natural disasters so evident, the cycles are much more pronounced.
Typically, insurance industry cycles will last...
By Kenneth Books
Mike Phillips may have been born to work in HVAC. From high school electronics classes to study of AC, DC and transistors, he has always been technologically curious. And it led him to ownership of Holt-Phillips Services, purveyors of Trane environmental products.
“My dad talked to me about...
By Chris Balzer, ECES
Welcome 2022! A recent survey of 531 U.S. adults showed the top resolutions are: exercise more, eat healthier and save money. A look back 20 years, and CNN’s poll showed the top resolutions were: get out of debt, lose weight and develop a healthy habit (quit...
By Courtney Lindberg, Arborbrook Financial Wellness
We talk a lot about money around here. But, let’s talk about something often associated with money and, more times than many are aware, influences what we do with money; pain. I’m not a fan of suffering. I don’t enjoy pain. My wife is...
By Maurice Stouse, Financial Advisor and Branch Manager
Thanksgiving week brought encouraging news (according to the Wall Street Journal) that supply chain logjams might be loosening. The administration, in trying to give some relief to gas prices, was set to make releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Bill Gates’...
By Courtney Lindberg, ArborBrook Financial Wellness
We are in a very unique time right now, perhaps “such a time.”
In our own business personal lives and, as we know well, some of yours too, we continue to face great challenges. To make the challenges even greater, we find ourselves distracted by...
Purple Square Management, a Tampa-based management company that operates over 205 franchise locations in nine states – including 95 Dunkin’/Baskin Robbins stores throughout Florida and Alabama – has selected Okaloosa County for a new, state-of-the-art commercial bakery and distribution facility. The 24,500 sq. ft. facility will be developed on...
By Chris Balzer, ECES
This holiday season is unlike any other, to cap off a year unlike any other. Throughout this season, and as we move into a new (and hopefully better) year, we wish you moments of peace amid the difficulties, connections with family and friends, even if they...
Meet Local Pro Matthew Vanderford, a Public Adjuster, whose roots began in Valparaiso. Both of Matthew’s grandparents retired from military careers locally and his parents met at Lincoln Park in Valparaiso. But when his father joined the military, Matthew’s family finally landed in New Jersey.
As a teenager (age 15),...
