Gregory T. Osment

Mr. Osment successfully represented our family in creating a lady bird deed and witnessing it prior to our father’s passing last year. He was fully paid up front for that service. During discussion afterwards, he offered his services with the transfer of the deed at time of our sale of the family far...m. When it came time for the closing, I contacted him and he had me put down $750. I did not, however, fill out the paperwork he sent me to sign. The very same day, I found out from our real estate agent and the title agency that this really was unnecessary because everything was quite cut and dry and the title company showed everything in good order and they would handle the recording of the deed. Tried to talk with Mr. Osment that day and for several days thereafter to get our $750 back and he gave every possible explanation he could think of as to why we needed to use him, sometimes being deliberately wordy and complicated in his speech and employing scare tactics and providing very questionable “proof” of problems in an effort to make it seem like we would be crazy to not use him. Finally I’d had enough. I told him he wouldn’t use him because I didn’t trust him after what he had been trying to do, and I asked him to return the $750. He pretty much said no, more or less, but never explicitly. Took him a couple of paragraphs questioning my realtor’s actions as illegal (and apparently the title company?), and that I had led him to believe we would use his services so it was within his terms of service to keep it. Before I finished reading I was fed up. I told him I was disappointed because he was a small business person and it was entirely in his power to refund the money he had for less than one day, which by the way he only received because I made the mistake of not doing my homework first. Hopefully anyone who is planning to use him reads this first, because he’s not a nice or honorable businessperson to work with.