In recent years, there have been a number of results about spaces with a point-countable cover satisfying various assumptions. In this paper, these results are generalized and unified by showing that the assumptions used can be significantly weakened. We are mostly concerned with consequences of the following condition: There is a point-countable cover 3> of the space X such that, if JC, y G X with x ^ y, then 0> has a finite subcollection 9 such that x G (U 9)° and y £ U 9.