Photos by Terry Traver TitleSmart’s Forest Lake team, including Shari McLagin, co-owner Cindy Koebele, and Inge Andre are ready to serve.
Terry Traver
Contributing Writer
Professional real estate closers TitleSmart Inc. recently opened a location in Forest Lake at 207 Lake St. N. The business is headquartered in White Bear Lake, it has six locations total, and it will celebrate its 10th anniversary this month.broadstreet.zone(48036);
President and CEO Cindy Koebele is co-owner with her sister, Vice President and Executive Closer Angela Shackle. They started the title insurance business in 2007 in Maplewood with a $30,000 loan from their parents (paid back in the third year of business) and three employees: Koebele, her sister and a friend. By 2009, they employed nine people, and currently there are 66 employees, including three who work at the Forest Lake branch.
“TitleSmart is a strictly local business of mostly women,” Koebele said. “We have 9,067 square feet at the
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