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Born in the Central Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia • North Carolina Real Estate Broker since 1983 • Graduate of Realtor Institute • West Virginia University graduate- 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree • Former North Carolina Mortgage/Banker Broker • Former North Carolina Real Estate Appraiser • U.S Marine Corp 1968-1972 “Experience dating back to the dinosaurs”… I guess that’s me! 
My wife, Valerie, and I joined the sales team of Fairview Realty in 1983.
Our office building was a converted feed shed for the old general store.
We didn’t have the modern conveniences of today. We had no pagers, cell phones,
fax machines or computers. Blackberries grew on bushes, palms were on your hands
(not hand-held devices) and you didn’t use a mouse… you just set a trap when you got one.
We used carbon paper to make duplicate copies. The only copy machine in town was at
the Fairview Pharmacy (now The Chapel Door). We had rotary phones- a yellow, a red
and a blue one. When business was good, sometimes I would be on all three phones at
the same time.
Fairview was on a two lane road with no traffic lights at all. There was a campground at Windsong, the U.S. Post Office was at Brew and Cue, Acme Motorcycles was a gas station, the car wash was in Reynolds next to Fairview Insurance (which was previously in the Fairview Pharmacy building), the "new" 25 cent car wash opened by Village Drive (it is now gone), Cedar Cliff Grocery was on the corner of Old Fort Road and 74 (that was before the name 74A), there was no Food Lion, no Ingles, no First Citizens (not at its present Food Lion location or on the corner of Cane Creek Road), Tyco was CII, the Fairview Community Center was the old Fairview Elementary School’s gym. If you needed milk or anything else in the world, you went to Tickle’s or Mountain Variety. After 27 years in the same office, the Allen Burton Team switched offices to KELLER WILLIAMS PROFESSIONALS, but we still live and work in Fairview. 27 years selling real estate in the same small town… I guess that is experience dating back to the dinosaurs. That amount experience brings vast knowledge of market history and deep cultural consciousness. Valerie and I have lived, worked and raised our children in Fairview, in the heart of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Now that our children are grown, we all work as a family team- The Allen Burton Team (named in honor of Alan “Pop” Burton- Valerie’s father). Allen Helmick- NC Broker Valerie Burton Helmick- NC Broker Burton Helmick- NC Broker Kate Helmick- NC Broker  Just a few of the commercial properties I have sold.
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