Best title company in Fairview, Tennessee?
May we suggest a different question?
In the biggest legal and financial decision of your life, do you really want to choose a title company that is legally prohibited under Tenn. Code Ann. § 23-3-103 from giving you legal advice? That is the Tennessee Paradox.
If that question surprises you, it is not your fault. Like most residential real estate consumers, you have probably never heard of the Tennessee Paradox. So here is the truth about a title company, what the Tennessee legislature said about it, how Vanderpool Law is different, what a Fairview closing has that the contract does not mention, and how we can help you.
The truth about a title company
Every title company in Tennessee issues the same policy at the same rate filed with the state. The settlement fee runs about the same from office to office, usually $500 to $900. What varies is care and speed, and some of the offices in and around Fairview are very good at both. But none of them can tell you what your contract means, what to do when the seller skips the repair or the earnest money is in dispute, or whether to sign. The law forbids it.
What the Tennessee legislature said about it
The Paradox: Tennessee law protects your right to choose who closes your real estate deal. Tennessee law also says a title company cannot practice law or give legal advice.
The Result: use that right to choose a title company, and you have put the biggest and most important legal and financial transaction most people will ever have in their lives in the hands of an office that is forbidden from advising you or protecting your interests.
This is the confusing part for the consumer. There is an attorney in most of these offices. You see a lawyer at the closing table and think, I have legal representation. You don't. The reason you don't is that the Tennessee legislature said you can't: a company cannot practice law, and the lawyer who works for a company represents the company. "Attorney-owned," "attorney-led" and "attorney-supervised" describe the business, not you.
How Vanderpool Law is different
The question to ask is who at this table is allowed to be on my side. At a title company, no one. At Vanderpool Law and Title Services, we can, and we frequently do. We have helped more than 15,000 people all over Tennessee navigate the tricky legal and financial situations that arise in everyday residential and commercial real estate transactions. There is very little we haven't seen. We do the title work, we close for the same fee a title company charges, and we represent you. Fairview is about twenty-five minutes west of our Franklin office, out Highway 96, and we have been closing there since 2002.
At a title company there is a reason you never get an engagement letter: you are not represented. At Vanderpool Law you are, and it says so in writing. Sending us a contract does not make you our client; an engagement letter does. The reason is simple. You have a lawyer on your side, not one who works for a title company.
Closing in Fairview
A Fairview, TN 37062 address can turn out to be in Cheatham or Dickson County rather than Williamson, and a house beyond the sewer lines runs on a septic system the county approved for a set number of bedrooms - two facts worth pinning down while you can still change course.
Maybe a Fairview house felt right on the second walk-through and the offer is already in, or maybe you are the seller with one on the kitchen table. Either way, the deal rests on the standard statewide form, and that form has nothing to say about the questions that set Fairview apart: which county and which government the land answers to, where the wastewater goes, and what the open ground nearby has been approved for. Each answer is already on file with the city, the county or the utility. Get them pulled while the inspection period is still running and walking away is still an option.
One Fairview question can take four phone calls - city planning on Bowie Lake Road, the county's septic department, the Water Authority in Dickson and the Register of Deeds in Franklin. Ask Vanderpool Law and you get one answer from people who know which office holds which piece.
Buying acreage, you see the septic permit, the greenbelt status and the plat read next to the contract while the inspection period still leaves you room to negotiate or walk.
Your deed, like every Williamson County deed, is recorded in Franklin, the town our office is in, so an old plat or a recorded easement on your land is close at hand when a question comes up.
Fairview City Center. In 2022 the city laid out a mixed-use district on 52 acres north of its town hall: more than 500 homes beside offices, restaurants and shops. A plan drawn in 2022 may not be the plan that gets built, so before you sign, read the recorded plat and covenants for what can go up beside your lot.
County: Williamson County (county seat: Franklin) - but the Fairview 37062 ZIP code also reaches into Cheatham and Dickson Counties. Where your deed records: Williamson County Register of Deeds, Sherry Anderson, 1320 West Main St., Suite 201, Franklin, TN 37064.
The full local guide, with its sources, is our Fairview page.
How we can help you
Before you sign or after, every buyer and every seller gets four complimentary services: contract review, a preliminary title search, a preliminary settlement statement, and a savings check. All you have to do is ask. Send us the contract and see your settlement statement in about five minutes; then talk it over with Jim Vanderpool, who answers your questions as your lawyer, complimentary. When you decide to hire us, the engagement letter says what we do for you and what it costs, which is the fee a title company charges.
The questions behind the search
Same policy. Same fee. Vanderpool Law sits on your side of the table, and offers four complimentary services before you sign or after. All you have to do is ask.