Joe Seagle

Our founder and CEO, Attorney Joe Seagle, started practicing law in North Carolina in 1996. In 2001, he moved to Orlando, FL, and joined a law firm that owned a real estate title insurance agency. He struck out on his own in the late summer of 2004. His law firm and title agencies quickly grew during the great real estate boom until 2007. While the law firm focused on representing private lenders, real estate investors, and timeshare developers, his title agency (PCS Title) and land trust company (TRSTE, LLC) cranked through hundreds of closings each year. In August 2007, the music stopped on the real estate boom, and the title agency dropped from 100 closings a month to 20, to 10, to five. The title agencies had grown to three locations and over 20 employees. When the Great Recession started, it wasn’t easy to accept that good times were over. Joe had to reduce staff and locations while pivoting the business focus. The firm moved into a new office building, which it had purchased in 2005, and renovated from a restaurant into an office building over two years. Once in the new offices, the firm shifted its focus to mortgage foreclosure defense and prosecution, bankruptcy, and estate planning. The law firm brought more attorneys on board, and the title and trust companies continued to operate. One title agency shifted its focus to timeshare closings for large, brand-name developers and owners who wanted to convey their timeshares to family members or other purchasers. Over the years, the economy improved, and — by 2012 — bankruptcy and foreclosures were dropped from the firm’s repertoire. The firm once again focused on real estate closings and land trust services. Its two title agencies handled Florida residential and commercial closings plus timeshare resale closings in over 20 states and the Caribbean.