Happy Thanksgiving from the Allen Tate Company!
We hope you have a wonderful weekend celebrating with friends and family. See you Monday!

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My earliest Thanksgiving memory actually takes place in foggy ole London town many, many years ago (I think I was still rocking the ‘90s bangs at that point). Anyway, I was enrolled in an American Community School, so come November, we learned about the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving. [...]

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When I was younger, I played games any chance I could get. If I couldn’t find a board game or a deck of cards, I would create games for myself to play and enjoy. At the drop of a hat, I imagined up rules, scenarios and even different worlds for my games to take place [...]

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There’s a saying in my family that routinely brings a chuckle (or three) out of everyone except my mother. The reason is that those chuckles are at her expense but deep down she knows that my father, sister and I do it out of love. Definitely not out of amusement.
While the latter half of the [...]

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When I was younger, I never gave much thought to what my future home would look like. I never conjured up images or tore ideas out of magazines to store in a shoebox. I knew that I would own a home one day, so for the most part, I had a “think about it when [...]

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Buying insurance is not like buying a tank of gas. When the gas light illuminates and that annoying little ping sound goes off (at least it’s an annoying little ping sound in my car) I look for the closest gas station to fill up my tank so that I can carry on with my day. At [...]

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The Homebuying Adventure process has been part eye-opening, part stressful and part awesome. The biggest eye-opener was of course my meeting with Mollie Bergstrom from Mortgage (I’m still working diligently on building up my credit) but the day we spent looking at houses is right up there as well.
It’s hard to go into an experience [...]

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“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently … While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the [...]

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A wise man once said …
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
That wise man was Steve Jobs and it seems that a certain Mark Zuckerberg took those words to heart because last week, Facebook went [...]

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I’ll be honest with you – going into this Homebuying Adventure, I knew next to nothing about mortgages and what they entailed. Pre-qualification, pre-approval, fixed rate, APR … it was all Greek to me. What I did know was that I had friends who were paying mortgages that were less than my monthly rent and [...]

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