Good morning all
Im new to the forum.but id like to add some food for thought. I was a NSA in earky 2000 before the housing issue of 2008. I gave it up due to restrictions at my full time job.
In those days we never had issue with short notice on signings. We always had at least two days and we never sold our services as cheaply as i see some doing now. Time is a valuable commidity. Weve all invested substantial time and effort getting to this point in our life. It is perhaps the only element we can trully control.
Im getting requests from lenders asking me to travel two to three hours for a signing do a signing with faxbacks for $50.00 and giving me hardly any notice at all. So ive decided im not gonna do it. If they want to pay me the worth of my time and experience then im happy to oblige. Otherwise no
One lender offered me $85.00 to do a signing in my home town but i was travelling and could not do the job. They kept insisting and finally offered me $200.00 to do the job. But as i said i was traveling
For any lender to delay finding a notary until the very last day is simply bad business. To top that wanting to haggle on pricing trying to get premium service at bargain basement prices just demonstrates how unprofessional they really are.
So the bottom line for me is that when i get an underpriced request for service on short notice im just gonna say NO. That might not work for you. But for me at this point in my life i’d rather sit on the couch and pet the dog than sell myself too cheap