I have been doing this almost 2 years now (what I consider part-time). Average about 30-50 signings a month. Except October-November 2025 was higher. That has been pretty consistent through the months. Here it is mid-April and I’ve only gotten 12 jobs this month. I only have 2 on the docket for next week. Still see jobs coming through at $45-50 but they aren’t paying my rates currently because someone else is taking lower pay apparently.
Just curious - are others seeing this slow-down or this is just a mid-Indiana thing? **Keep in mind I don’t market to other business. I don’t the willpower to try to keep up with other things that don’t freely flow into my realm - I’m not looking to market myself for new business elsewhere**. Just curious to see if others have seen a slowdown for loan signing only.
Yes I have been very slow this month. I generally do around 50 per month and have had less than 15 so far this month. Not too worried about it and am enjoying the time to get some things done. It will be busy again soon enough! I’m in Oregon…
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Me too. This is fun money and not income so it’s ok that I’m slow. I just get paranoid if I’ve been out on some avoid list or something when things slow down this much. Thanks for responding.
I am actually slammed and having to turn down appointments with no room on the calendar. In my area I consider 2 appointments a day pretty good because it’s always travel but this month, I’ve had 3 and 4 on several days. Eastern Washington State.
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I have been seeing a lot of very low offers. I pass but someone takes them
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Im a notary and a mortgage LO. I can tell you even the best LOs are crying right now. Im getting one a week and suprised. I get told when people sign up for a refi- meaing the notary business will be on fire in a few weeks. I have the #1 website for Reverse Mortgages in Alabama. I couldnt keep up with leads until someone said war. All lenders phones stopped ringing at the same time. Thought I would throw out my view…I jumped back in last year and took some of those tests to close for Chase, turned down and alot told me they werent taking apps. For the new folks and maybe me, someone should make a list to save time. Telling not to sign up with XXXX because they use snap docs- just dont expect help and the may send a 2nd text if you agree t 2 things and if you dont answer it quick, they give away, dont pay money to the Mark trainer guy, and things like Notaries to you i the same as signing services. I have done a few Jot, First AM lately and they are awesome. Notaries 24/7 will want me to go hour round trip, get 40 pages signed ,scan and fedex for $45. Some of these all of the sudden need a witness or something and you spend 6 hours total.
No one has to accept the low offers. I have found not accepting the low offers leaves the calendar open for jobs at the fees I require.
Location, location. It hasn’t cooled off in Eastern WA.
What is wrong with someone who uses SnapDocs?
You just have to counter offer a lot.
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I’m glad you are staying busy. Wonder what the difference in local makes. Interesting to think about.
The main systems I work with that are pretty steady where I am are:
Mortgage Connect - LOTS of work but TERRIBLE communication until you do something wrong then they are on you like stink on a pig. Online platform is pretty reliable and have to do your own invoices. It’s a little weird but works.
Signature Closers - great at everything.
T365 hit or miss - TERRIBLE communication and nothing with their system works.
Bancserv - Good to work for but very little in my area.
Signing Order - hit or miss
Hardly ever anything with SnapDocs. Never really been able to work for them. Companies through them are non-responsive.
Others that are very slow - The Closing Exchange, Mavsign, Jot.
I’m not sure. I know I’ve been getting a lot of repeat orders from closing folks I work with a lot.
Doing a lot of HELOC. Bank of America only uses approved notaries for their HELOCs, they remove notaries from the list if an error gets sent back.
I am in a very rural area and agricultural season is now open, so highways are full of combines and cattle trucks and hay trucks etc and with gas going up a lot of the signing agents are not traveling. I continue to cover six counties. Considering how often I have to bat clean-up for errors maybe repeat business is on the rise due to that. Error free work is always critical but right now - it’s even more important.
HELOC is big right now. People are hanging on to their low interest first mortgage. And using HELOC to clear the debt slate again.
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Yep farming season has begun here as well. Same issue.
I’ve been doing a lot of Loan Mods lately. Mostly this month actually. My appointments I have gotten are those.
I’ve done 18 so far from the beginning of April. As a signing agent, we’re not here to read or judge the content of the material that we have someone sign. Winning
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I am slammed my typical goal is to average 1 a day at minimum as I sell real estate also (currently at 36 as of the 21st). I have even countered with higher fees more often and gotten them. In Washington state south of Seattle. I try never to go to Seattle due to lack of parking and congestion and I haven’t had to in order to make my numbers.
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Not sure what you are referring in this comment. I am not “judging” anyone. And yes you are supposed to read the documents - how else would you know if they are correct. And how do you present them to your client if you don’t know what they say. I don’t care what type of signing it is - money is money.
I ended April with 32 signings. That’s about 10 less than normal but my son is in baseball this year so that leaves time for that. Small win.
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I ended up with 45 in April. It was my best gross in a year. May has started out equally strong.
