Earl Patterson Facebook ad: “Leaving Florida?”

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After 42 years in Florida, we finally sat our kids down and told them we were leaving. We had the boxes. We had the plan. And then a stranger stood in my driveway in Tampa and said one sentence that made us unpack everything. I'll get to that sentence in a second because honestly I'm still not over it. First, how we got there. I was born here. My wife's family has been in Tampa three generations. We never thought we'd be the people who leave. But this spring we sat down and did the math like everybody eventually does. The house costs more to keep every year. Groceries at Publix feel like a car payment. And then our auto insurance renewal came in the mail. $263 a month for two cars. Clean records, both of us, and it just keeps climbing and we'd never once thought to check why. So we made the call everyone's making. Tennessee. My wife cried in the kitchen and then started ordering boxes the same night, which is the most her thing ever. Fast forward a few weeks. The moving company sends a guy out to walk the house and give us an estimate. Older guy, been doing this over 20 years, seen the inside of half the garages in Hillsborough County. Super nice. He does his walkthrough, taps everything into his tablet, gives us the number. And then we're standing in the driveway and he looks at the house, then at me, and goes, can I tell you something I probably shouldn't? I said sure. He goes, half the families I move out of Florida call me within a year asking what it costs to move back. I just stood there. He goes, I'm serious. The grass isn't greener, it's just different grass. Most people don't leave because they want to. They leave over numbers they never actually sat down and checked. And then he asked me why we were going. I gave him the speech. The costs, the bills, the insurance. And when I got to the $263 a month he actually stopped me. He goes, hold on, what? Pulls out his phone, opens his insurance app, turns it around. $74 a month. This man drives for a living. I asked him how that's even possible and he goes, you ever heard about that site the kid from Brandon built? I hadn't. So he tells me. College kid, home for the summer a few years back, found out his parents had been overpaying for years because nobody ever tells you to check. Built a site that pulls real rates from a bunch of different companies at once and shows them side by side. Takes about 90 seconds. He said he tells families about it all the time and half of them find it a month too late. That night I sat at the kitchen table with my phone and tried it. It really was about 90 seconds. Same coverage we already had. Same protection. Nothing stripped down. The quote came back at $81 a month. I handed my wife the phone. She looked at it and went, is this real? I said I think so. She goes, do it right now before something changes. We switched that night. And that weekend we did something we should have done years ago. We went through every single bill in this house one by one. And I'm not going to pretend a website solved everything, because Florida is still expensive. But when we got done, the math looked different enough that we sat the kids back down. My daughter cried. The boxes are still folded flat in the garage and I don't think they're getting used. Since then my sister in St. Pete checked and saved almost the same as us. My coworker who actually did move to Tennessee last year tried it on his new place and texted me "nobody tells you it's not that cheap here either." And my neighbor two doors down, born here like me, texted me "I've been overpaying for 15 years." Anyway, I left the site below. It's a free quote, takes about 90 seconds, no credit card, no spam calls. You answer a few basic questions and it shows you real rates side by side so you can see your actual number and decide for yourself. People are saving up to $950 a year on average. There's no catch. Nobody ever tells you to check, so most people never do. Click Learn More below. If you're a safe driver in Florida paying more than $150 a month, you're probably missing discounts you qualify for. And be honest with me, Florida. Have you and your spouse had the leaving conversation this year? And if you already left, tell me the truth. Do you miss it? Because I know at least one moving guy who says half of you do.

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