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If you’re new to Northeastern Florida and must occupy kids on weekends, holidays and during school breaks, we have your solution. Take the youngsters to historic St. Augustine. It’s the nation’s oldest city and a tremendous tourist, cultural and arts destination. It’s also less than an hour’s drive south of …
Want to stroll the oldest street in the United States? Head for the oldest city in the United States! That’s Florida’s St. Augustine, which was founded on September 8, 1565 by Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles. Does that same sound familiar? Regardless of how Aviles Street got its …
St. Augustine is one of the United States’ most historic cities — the nation’s oldest, in fact — and offers enough historical sites, tourist attractions, unique adventures and experiences to keep you coming back for more. But those aren’t the only reasons folks come to St. Augustine. The beaching is …
You may have moved to the Daytona Beach area for any number of reasons. A job change. Long-awaited retirement. To build your dream home. But you can’t move to the “World’s Most Famous Beach” without enjoying its vast watery playgrounds! At least we hope you won’t. Daytona Beach is ICI …
If you’re a new Daytona Beach-area resident, you might not realize how easy it is to explore conservation lands here. Sounds contradictory, doesn’t it? Especially when the “World’s Most Famous Beach” is home to some of the state’s highest-powered tourist attractions? Daytona Beach’s home county of Volusia also contains some of the …
Once you move to a pre-eminent vacation destination like Daytona Beach, realizations you might’ve shoved back-of-mind in the hubris of home-selling and buying, suddenly crystallize. Like, you now can do the fun things you’d normally reserve for vacation, all the time! That’s definitely true for kids’ activities. The same distractions …
According to a report by The Lenders Network, the average down payment in 2016 was 6%. If this is similar to the percentage that you plan on putting down, then your loan will require mortgage insurance. Mortgage insurance is a type of insurance that is required by the lender when …
You’re a new Florida resident and you want to get outside and enjoy living in the Sunshine State. We agree! We at ICI Homes count the Daytona Beach area as our hometown, and we’re here with locals’ tips and tricks to help you do just that. Here are three fun, …
If you’ve moved to the east central Florida coast from hillier terrain and require some workout elevation, local bridges are your solution. The Daytona Beach area offers five tall, multiple-lane bridges across the Intracoastal Waterway. Each bridge’s height guarantees huffing and puffing without drawbridge interruptions, and one bonus of incorporating …
If you have recently been on a personal finance site to check your credit score and then applied for a mortgage you may have been surprised at the difference in your credit score. That’s because more often than not, the score you received from the personal finance site is going …