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Allen Tate Consolidating

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams

This news article was posted in yesterday's News and Observer.  Now it is more important than ever to pick a real estate company that has longevity. 

Allen Tate will be closing a quarter of their offices.  However, they are not leaving any markets.  There are no Allen Tates in the Greenville Market Center. 

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/4711426/

 

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SarahGray Lamm
Allen Tate Realtors Chapel Hill, NC 919-819-8199 - Chapel Hill, NC
Realtor - 100K Hours of NC Real Estate Experience

Katie, I am proud to be a Realtor with the AllenTate Company, a LEADER in understanding what it takes to succeed in a challenging market! As your title indicates, we are CONSOLIDATING offices, not CLOSING offices. We have not lost any agents nor have we made our market footprint any smaller. Agents from ALL companies list and sell all over the marketplace, many times no where near their branch office. Not having a small office in a particular neighborhood shopping center is hardly an indication that the agents or the quality of their service are gone. I would venture to say that you would gladly assist a buyer or seller outside the Greenville Market Center. The same is true for Allen Tate agents. We know intimately the markets we commit to work, not just the ones we live in.

Allen Tate is the #1 real estate company in the Carolinas and our leaders have made proactive decisions for the success of US, the agents. Our leaders have ADDED many levels of assistance for agents to help us market and sell in these challenging times. They made a tough decision to shutter some of the bricks and mortar, a decision which, while painful to the ego, is a clear demonstration that our leadership team is FORWARD THINKING, not ego driven and making smart decisions that will ENHANCE our future status not detract from it.

We do NOT pay agent fees at Allen Tate and they have NOT and will not institute them in order to pay overhead. In fact, Allen Tate is a company with NO DEBT WHATSOEVER. How many companies today can say that? Joining Allen Tate has been the BEST decision I have ever made in my 30 years as a successful NC Realtor.

I wish you the best of luck as you and your company adjust to the changes ahead for all of us. I only hope that ALL hard working real estate agents are as lucky as I am to be associated with such a FANTASTIC company as Allen Tate Realtors!

 

Mar 12, 2009 08:47 AM
Katie Evans
Keller Williams - Greenville, NC

Sarah, Thank you for sharing your feelings.  Keller Williams is debt free as well.   Both on a national level and locally in the Greenville office.  We as agents actually recieve profit sharing when our market center is profitable.

I wish you all the best in 2009. 

Mar 12, 2009 11:36 PM
Anonymous
Mark

It seems that the insinuation is that Allen Tate does not have longevity.  Interesting that you do not base that upon factual information and therefore, this could easily be a Code of Ethics violation.

Mar 20, 2009 03:59 AM
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