At today’s cost of living our fees and the fees of the Notary in the Title charges should be updated. Title makes their money on percentage of loan, so the higher the market value the higher their Title policy charge and escrow. We are paid out of escrow. Appraisers make more money today, Title makes more money today and yet the Signing agents are asked to be paid fees from 25 years ago.
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Location has a lot to do with fees. I do long distance signings so $200 is normal but these are 90 minute drives in one direction. Plenty of people tell me I don’t charge enough but the only person who decides that is me.
I am in Western WA and this has been what works for me lately as well. Lots of miles on the car but i am able grab the remote signings
And they got in big big trouble for that many years ago…some of got calls from the DOJ about it. They are NOT supposed to be doing that - it’s considered price-fixing.
Interesting. I still think we should have some regulation
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No…if anything needs regulation, it’s the SS - especially those that pop up after a new notary with little to no experience realizes they’re not going to make six figures in this job and they figure they’ll start a SS…
Exactly. The whole Signing industry. It was created in the first housing boom 25 yrs ago and we’re here to stay. Now we need regulation to protect us.
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Self-employed people assume certain risks. This forum seems to focus on what the industry owes us. Few talk about what we owe the industry.
I’m sorry but I just don’t understand you at all. How can you say this? This forum, and it’s participants, are focusing on the fact that signing agents are not being paid fairly for the work they do and the risk they assume, and rightfully so.
Please, by all means, explain to all of us what “we” owe the industry???
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We owe the industry professionalism. Focusing on a litany of complaint won’t help anyone accomplish anything. But by all means, carry on.
@Amy_Boyd Concur 
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Yes, you would lose money accepting that fee for that many miles.
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Agree. They are entitled to professionalism. And we are entitled to professional fees!
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@johnsonps306 yes they’re entitle to professionalism…but so are we. We are entitled to professionalism and respect - and recognition via proper payment of what we truly put into these loan signings.
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3 million Californians live within a 90 minute drive. FedEx and UPS both are less than 10 minutes drive from my house or my office. This is one of the most desirable places to live in the world and I consider myself fortunate to live here. Not one of my competitors are doing this for a living so consequently the loan signing fees are paltry. But there’s TONS of notary opportunities if you advertise which I spend a lot of money on.
I read all your replies and I have a lot of respect for your enthusiasm. I wish you’ll well.
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Your logistics are enviable. Your cheap competition is not.
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I received my first Zero offer today, I thought it was a mistake, but it turns out they simply made a mistake, but did nothing to correct the listing
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That’s the lowest of the low ball offers there. 
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The name bmcnotaryrepublic was not intentional, it was an accident when creating a Hotmail account in 1999, I just kept the account and at the time it was my only business email. I do have a Gmail email for my business, I just never bothered to change it with NNA or Notary Cafe. My state is Colorado, in the central area of the state.
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If snapdoc reports over 50% of packages have error - lots of notaries aren’t putting enough into their signings. Just the other side of the coin. it’s hard to get more money when that many notary errors are being reported. If companies went to real live schedulers, I think rate of error would drop because they’d be re-assigning notaries with good records of performance. I don’t see that happening as much these days.
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