True Title Company has another new home.

The Clayton-based business can thank Rachel Bergsieker for that.

True Title, which has been in business since 2012, recently opened an office at 227 North Sturgeon Street in Montgomery City. The company now has 14 new offices in the state of Missouri.

“We also have a sister title company in Illinois that handles our Illinois deals and we just opened a brand new office in Colorado,” said Erin Oakley, the escrow closing officer who will lead the Montgomery City office. “So we are expanding rapidly. Montgomery City is the second newest because we opened in the city (of St. Louis) right at the same time. We opened a city office off Kingshighway in St. Louis. We opened an office in Rolla.”

An open house bash was held on Sept. 12 at the new True Title office with company director John Duckworth and several members from the Montgomery City Area Chamber of Commerce in attendance. Appetizers were served during the four-hour event.

A year ago, the True Title building housed an accounting firm that was owned by Jacob Lotton. But when that closed, Bergsieker – who is a realtor/broker – had a mission to bring True Title Company to the Montgomery City area.

“We recently just moved out to Callaway County, so we were moving our offices and our buildings and everything this way,” Bergsieker said. “A lot of my agents live in Montgomery County already, so I had always wanted to buy an historic building. This one was sitting here and needed some love, so that’s what we did. We bought the building sometime in the fall of last year. We spent a few days here with some labor and brought it up to where it is today so we could put our real estate and mortgage company in here. We asked True Title if they would want to come and make this journey with us and take our stuff to Montgomery County and see how we would fare since they have done so much business with them in town.”

Located in the back of the True Title building is a courtyard that includes picnic tables, lights and artificial turf.

“We’re trying to make it a little prettier at one place at a time,” Bergsieker said.

Bergsieker said the new True Title office is her first office since the COVID-19 pandemic. She worked in an office at Warrenton until the pandemic.

“We’ve been doing this for about 10 years,” Bergsieker said. “Then, we just started the mortgage division about two years ago. We have a couple of new mortgage lenders on the team. They will be sitting here in the office excited to meet some new people and share their competitive rates and opportunities.”

Bergsieker said the staff of the new True Title office has been getting plenty of support from the Montgomery County community since it opened.

“The community has been great,” she said. “They have been super welcoming and appreciative. I don’t know how many times people, especially with the noise making outside (the building) the last couple of weeks, stopped in their cars and on the highway and would stop the boys outside working and say thank you. We appreciate you. It looks really nice. That kind of thing goes a long way. It really gave them some motivation to keep going when it was 115 (degrees) on the asphalt.”

True Title has 16 satellite offices and 60 employees throughout St. Louis and Denver and is licensed to write title insurance policies in Missouri, Illinois and Colorado. Oakley said she is thrilled that Bergsieker helped bring a growing company to Montgomery County.

“She had the vision to come out here and open her real estate office and asked us to be part of it and saw the need for a title company that does the entire state and offers construction disbursement and 1031 exchanges,” Oakley said. “She figured we could expand out here and grow the business together.”