Here's the thing about "research"

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People say “do your research” and make decisions about job offers based on things posted here or whatever.

I looked up Notary IQ and found a thread from 2023 that was fairly disparaging because they weren’t all over the place. A couple of posters claimed they wouldn’t take orders from them because there’s not that much info available - the year they were brand new.

They pay in 7 days and offer decent fees. They have a notary sign up. Could be I signed up and that’s why they emailed me. Because that’s what I do with a lot of info from the forum I go find an agencies website and register.

They sent a request for a job 14 miles from me 31 pages at a hundred bucks. I’d do that all day long. So not everyone’s experience is going to be your experience. If you’re a new notary - sometimes you take a leap of faith and do the job.

You can’t assume everyone knows everything and is always right. Just saying. I have seen plenty of posts saying these people are rip offs, this company never work for and my personal experience has been nothing like what others report. I just think we have to be more careful telling new notaries who they should or should not accept jobs from. Someone recently posted they avoid jobs from snap docs. I take as many as 20 orders a month from snapdocs and get checks twice a month from that site. If I listened to someone who said avoid snapdocs it would cost me a lot.

Don’t operate in a fear that’s not warranted. I guess that’s what I’m trying to say.

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Some people still don’t get the concept that platforms like Snapdocs or Signingorder are not the company that they’re getting paid from. They just facilitate the signing.

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I needed to hear this. I am a brand new notary/loan signing agent and it can get overwhelming hearing who to avoid and who to sign up with. I appreciate your insight. I am in a rural area that is developing at a RAPID pace, so I am trying to dive in to get started. There are a lot of neighborhoods popping up, but when I call around, they said that most of their closings are done via RON these days. Sometimes I just stop the research and go to in person marketing because it can be A LOT.

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I haven’t entertained certifying as RON because it isn’t ruling the process in my area of Eastern Washington.

I don’t know that I will either, to tell you the truth.

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It’s mostly the cookie cutter neighborhoods that said they are doing it via RON, but everything else is still traditional. My snapdocs and signing order have been quiet, but I am still new, so i know it takes a while to get it going. My local title company 10 minutes from my house said that they do not have any LSA that they use and I came at just the right time, so I will send a follow up with them.

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