Thomas Horton Beisswenger

If you live in the Athens area and will be using a closing attorney—listen up! Do not use Tom Beisswenger! He kept $1k of our money on a sale of a mobile home 5/30/17 to “ensure our cooperation” in getting the mobile home titles from our mortgage company. Once we got the titles and took them to hi...m (1st week of July) like he’d asked, we did not get our money. He said he had to mail them to MC courthouse to get them retired. One month later, we finally heard back from him after leaving him numerous phone calls that weren’t returned. He said “these things just take time” and said that his assistant was following up on this. When I reached his assistant, Kristin Corbin, in August, she told me this was Tom’s job and not hers and that neither of them had called the MC courthouse. When I called the MC courthouse, they told me they process these SAME DAY and that they had never received the titles from Beisswenger. I was also told by the MC Tax Commissioner that there was NO REASON for them to mail the titles to MC courthouse because when the mobile home was purchased, it was a cash closing. I called Tom to tell him this, and he HUNG UP THE PHONE ON ME after saying he was in the middle of a closing and couldn’t talk (closing attorneys don’t just get out of closings to answer a random call . . .) I went to MC courthouse and paid (AGAIN) to get titles re-issued to me. When we received the titles, my husband called him to let him know we will bring him the titles, but we want to pick up our $1k when we give him the titles, as there is nothing else for us to do. He proceeded to HANG UP THE PHONE on my husband. We promptly called him back and demanded our money from him. The next day, my husband took the titles down and got the money. Do not use TOM BEISSWINGER unless you want to be lied to and hung up on! I have been to countless closings for my boss, and he is the most unprofessional closing attorney I have ever met. Word to the Wise!