I am not growing tired of working for the middle man. Fees are getting lower, while expenses are rising, (paper, gas, and ink). I am seeing fees as low as 65 dollars which is absurd. Does anybody have any advice on how to get with local/ national title companies so I can start working directly with the source.
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Problem is that ‘the source’ is also playing the same lowball game–and also uses the middlemen.
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I too am tired of the iddle man, where I see they offer you 80 dollars when the client actually paid 175. I want to do independent signings but I do not know where to start.
Knowing that the client actually pays at least double what the signing service is offering, don’t be afraid to counteroffer for more than the fee offered. In your example, you could counter for $120 and still possibly get the job if nobody underbids you.
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That’s the problem I have been countering then nothing, sometimes but a lot of them I get.
What a client pays for closing services has nothing to do with a notary accepting a fee. You counter a fee with the fee you require. You accept a fee. Reading the closing disclosure and deciding you got screwed is a waste of time. We don’t prepare the packages. We don’t file the paperwork. Deciding what is fair to the notary based on what a closing disclosure says is foolish and arrogant.
What about when you charge $150 and the closing disclosure says $125 for the notary fee? Do you give money back? (And yes, that has happened.) Why are so many unrealistic.
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Because they don’t understand how this business works so they want to make their own rules.