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Florida's quote of the day

| 4/20/2018

"We just don’t know why Florida is so behind everybody else."

-- Roderick Scott, a contractor who specializes in elevating historic structures

The challenge of elevating an existing coastal home in South Florida remains daunting, not to mention expensive. They’ve been putting places up on stilts in the Florida Keys for decades, but on the coastal mainland, much of the housing stock goes back even further. Some communities have demanded higher ground floor elevations for new construction, but the codes for elevating older homes are complicated and unclear in many cases.

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